To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Arkansas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Arkansas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 1/4/21 • Approved: 1/7/21 • Last Updated: 1/10/21 • R1358387-G0-S3
February 15, 1921 - January 14, 2005
*Obituary
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
HINDSVILLE — Ray Edgar Chapin, 83, of Hindsville died Jan. 14, 2005, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Fayetteville. He was born Feb. 15, 1921, in Sapulpa, Okla., to Gardie Milford and Lola Bell Waldroop Chapin. He has installed signs and neon signs for many large corporations. He moved to the area 30 years ago from Claremore, Okla. He was a past member of the Northwest Arkansas Gated Horse Club. He was preceded in death by one son, Carl Chapin, on Nov. 1, 1997.
Survivors include his wife, Gertrude "Trudy' Chapin of the home, to whom he was married April 15, 1969; three sons, Ronald Ray Chapin of Marysville, Wash., Ronald Anthony Chapin of Rio Rancho, N.M., and John Thad Chapin of Wenatchee, Wash.; five daughters, Darlene Roduner of Albuquerque, N.M., Vickie Arlene Rizzo of Albuquerque, Faye Elizabeth Hendrick of Skiatook, Okla., Connie Jean Nystrom of Hindsville and Patsy Schneider of Los Ranchos, N.M.; two brothers, Bill Chapin of Catoosa, Okla., and Donald Chapin of Tulsa, Okla.; 13 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m, today at Sisco Chapel in Springdale with burial in Friendship Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, 92 Sunbridge, Fayetteville.
Photograph by Alvin Herrington
Contributed on 1/4/21 by judyfrog
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 1358387