Dave was born in a small town in Nebraska in 1934, attending a one-room schoolhouse before graduating from high school at the age of 16. He later attended the University of Nebraska where he received his bachelor’s degree, Northwestern University where he received his master’s, and Pepperdine University where he received his master’s in business administration.
He served in the Army as a military policeman in Korea in the late 1950s, and retired from the Army Reserves at age 62 with the rank of colonel.
 David John Chapman |
After retiring from Ampex, he began another career, as a teacher of International Relations and Marketing at Notre Dame University and the University of San Francisco.
He married Diane Hull in 1983, and they bought a ranch on the coast of Pescadero. Dave loved Pescadero, and said that he didn't want to leave unless it was feet first.
Dave was an avid collector all his life, collecting local art, Indian baskets, Irish and English china, Nebraskan quilts, African and Mexican folk art and, his favorite of all, beach glass and beach rocks. To support this hobby, he bought and ran an antique store, Country Roads, in Pescadero. He loved gardening, music, animals, his grandchildren, and was a voracious reader. And though he had been a vice president of a high-tech company, he hated the Internet and e-mail.
He is survived by his wife Diane, his children, Cathe, David, Jim, Sue, Sean, Randy and Brett, his beloved grandchildren Jacquie, Max, Emma, Louis and Beth, his sister Mary Ida, and his brothers Chick and John.
Donations in lieu of flowers are welcome to the Coastside Adult Day Health Care Center in Half Moon Bay.
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