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Combus "Chappie" Chapman, Denver's First African-American Landscape Contractor Passes Away02-10-10 | News

Combus "Chappie" Chapman, Denver's First African-American Landscape Contractor Passes Away

Combus "Chappie" Chapman

Combus "Chappie" Chapman, one of the first African-Americans to buy a home in Denver's Park Hill neighborhood passed away in January of 2010. He was 88.

Chapman attended Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College in the early 1940s. He worked as a waiter with Union Pacific Railroad for 25 years before retiring. He used customers?EUR??,,????'?????<

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Today the company has evolved into Chapman Landscape and Irrigation LLC and is located in Commerce City.

Some of the landscape projects the Chapmans have worked on include the north entrance to Invesco Field at Mile High, the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, the Regional Transportation District?EUR??,,????'?????<

He is survived by his three sons; three daughters, Donna Pate, Marian Fisher and Vickie Harvey; a brother, C.W. Chapman, of Newton, Miss.; 16 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren.