Accomplished artist and musician Harriet G. Chapman of Fox Point died June 13 at Sinai Samaritan Medical Center of respiratory arrest. She was 88.
Born in Milwaukee, she graduated from Lincoln High School in 1930 and from the old Milwaukee State Teacher’s College, now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in 1934.
As a young girl, she studied piano at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and also played the harp. In addition, she was an accomplished painter and sculptor and wrote articles about art for Milwaukee’s daily newspapers.
She worked in Washington, D.C., for the Office of Strategic Services, now the CIA, during World War II. She returned to Milwaukee and taught kindergarten in the Milwaukee Public Schools, retiring in 1965 from Anna Doerfler School.
In 1941 she married Lou Chapman, a sportswriter for the Milwaukee Sentinel.
She was a member of Congregation Shalom, Hadassah and the American Association of University Women.
Her family described her as a modest, “giving person who was always interested in everyone else’s activities” and who created a home filled with “familial joy.”
She is survived by her husband; sons Richard Chapman of Fox Point and Stewart Chapman of Dix Hills, N.Y.; sister Anita (Joe) Chudnow of Fox Point; and five grandchildren.
Rabbis Ronald Shapiro and Francis Barry Silberg officiated at the funeral on June 15. Burial was in Spring Hill Cemetery.
The family suggested memorials to Hadassah, Milwaukee Jewish Federation or the American Cancer Society.
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