A father, son, brother, artist, DYI enthusiast, intellectual, recluse, family-man, and ultimately human being. A carpenter/craftsman/builder by day and musician/composer by night he built a house on Cayuga Lake with the help of family and friends over the course of six summers. An anti-establishment, peace-loving conscientious objector who later spent five years in the Navy. Considering the possibility of the "life of the mind" as a career, he majored in ancient languages - specifically Sanskrit.Ī pianist in the vein of Bill Evans, music and composing were a lifelong pursuit and spiritual journey cursing out about every venue manager that he interacted with as a band leader was his portrait of an artist as a young man. A self-described loner, he nonetheless pledged Phi Beta Kappa while at SUNY Binghamton. He was a man of many intertwined, occasionally contradictory, profiles and perspectives.
Graduating from Watkins Glen Central School with a Regents Scholarship in 1967, he had dreams of traveling far away but decided at the last minute to stay relatively close with a state school. He is survived by his two sons, Chris (Houran) Chapman of Brooklyn, NY and Shon Chapman of East Stroudsburg, PA his two siblings, Mary Anne (Bill) Culligan of Portland, Oregon and Robert (Barbara) Chapman of Watkins Glen, NY five grandchildren nieces and nephews and dozens of songs and the memory of thousands of performances. The following obituary was submitted to The Odessaīorn to Mary (Chapman) Bottcher and Rupert “Pete” Chapman, and he passed just under two months after his wife of nearly 40 years, Nancy Chapman. The Schuyler County Partnership for Economic Development websiteĬlick on the logo below to reach the Arc of
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