Buckley resident Robert “Papa” Chapman died March 1, 2013.

He was born March 22, 1930, in Chehalis, Wash., and was raised in Wapato, Wash. He graduated from Wapato High School in 1949. He worked at Hanford for three years and, in 1951, married Blanche Bremer. He went into the U.S. Army in 1952 and served 13 months in Korea. After being discharged, he and his wife moved to Seattle, where he worked for Boeing until retirement in 1988. He loved camping at Lake Curlew and Yellowstone Park.

He is survived by wife Blanche; children Cindy McGehee and husband Jim, Barbara Anderson and husband Leonard and Bobby Chapman and wife Connie; 17 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.