Johnny Mack Chappell was baptized in Cottage Grove Church of Christ in Houston in 1966. He was a graduate of John H. Reagan High School in 1973 in Houston, attended the University of Houston, graduated from North Texas State in Denton, Texas, and coached high school football for 20 years. He was an English teacher and football coach for three years at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas.
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The tombstone photo posted by David J. Webb was one of three stones discarded by a monument company, and those three stones were used by a homeowner near downtown Houston to set up a fake cemetery in his yard in 2012 to keep vagrants from sleeping there.
The homeowner was not aware that the tombstones were inscribed with the names of actual deceased people. The other two stones had the names Dee Brown Hancock (1922-1973) and Sandra Ruth Howen (1939-1986). The Howen stone disappeared sometime after May 15, 2013, when an article was published about the fake cemetery by Houston Chronicle reporter Dane Schiller.
There are several other articles posted about the fake cemetery, which can be found by searching for Johnny Mack Chappell on the internet.
According to an article in the New York Daily News, Johnny Mack Chappell's family was amused by the fake cemetery, and the article quoted Johnny's brother, Wayne Chappell as saying, "He [Johnny] would get his friends and have a beer party next to it or something."
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The tombstone photo posted by David J. Webb was one of three stones discarded by a monument company, and those three stones were used by a homeowner near downtown Houston to set up a fake cemetery in his yard in 2012 to keep vagrants from sleeping there.
The homeowner was not aware that the tombstones were inscribed with the names of actual deceased people. The other two stones had the names Dee Brown Hancock (1922-1973) and Sandra Ruth Howen (1939-1986). The Howen stone disappeared sometime after May 15, 2013, when an article was published about the fake cemetery by Houston Chronicle reporter Dane Schiller.
There are several other articles posted about the fake cemetery, which can be found by searching for Johnny Mack Chappell on the internet.
According to an article in the New York Daily News, Johnny Mack Chappell's family was amused by the fake cemetery, and the article quoted Johnny's brother, Wayne Chappell as saying, "He [Johnny] would get his friends and have a beer party next to it or something."
Johnny Mack Chappell was baptized in Cottage Grove Church of Christ in Houston in 1966. He was a graduate of John H. Reagan High School in 1973 in Houston, attended the University of Houston, graduated from North Texas State in Denton, Texas, and coached high school football for 20 years. He was an English teacher and football coach for three years at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas.
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The tombstone photo posted by David J. Webb was one of three stones discarded by a monument company, and those three stones were used by a homeowner near downtown Houston to set up a fake cemetery in his yard in 2012 to keep vagrants from sleeping there.
The homeowner was not aware that the tombstones were inscribed with the names of actual deceased people. The other two stones had the names Dee Brown Hancock (1922-1973) and Sandra Ruth Howen (1939-1986). The Howen stone disappeared sometime after May 15, 2013, when an article was published about the fake cemetery by Houston Chronicle reporter Dane Schiller.
There are several other articles posted about the fake cemetery, which can be found by searching for Johnny Mack Chappell on the internet.
According to an article in the New York Daily News, Johnny Mack Chappell's family was amused by the fake cemetery, and the article quoted Johnny's brother, Wayne Chappell as saying, "He [Johnny] would get his friends and have a beer party next to it or something."
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The tombstone photo posted by David J. Webb was one of three stones discarded by a monument company, and those three stones were used by a homeowner near downtown Houston to set up a fake cemetery in his yard in 2012 to keep vagrants from sleeping there.
The homeowner was not aware that the tombstones were inscribed with the names of actual deceased people. The other two stones had the names Dee Brown Hancock (1922-1973) and Sandra Ruth Howen (1939-1986). The Howen stone disappeared sometime after May 15, 2013, when an article was published about the fake cemetery by Houston Chronicle reporter Dane Schiller.
There are several other articles posted about the fake cemetery, which can be found by searching for Johnny Mack Chappell on the internet.
According to an article in the New York Daily News, Johnny Mack Chappell's family was amused by the fake cemetery, and the article quoted Johnny's brother, Wayne Chappell as saying, "He [Johnny] would get his friends and have a beer party next to it or something."
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