Henry Otis Chapman Jr., executive

Henry Otis Chapman Jr., 79, a long-time executive in the printing business and a decorated Army officer during the Korean War, died Tuesday, Oct. 28, at his home in Middleburg. He had lung cancer.

Mr. Chapman, a Long Island native, born and raised in Cedarhurst, N.Y., spent 23 years with the Rockwell Corporation as the head of sales for the company's eastern region for printing presses used by newspapers and magazines. Initially based in New York, he moved to Middleburg in 1967 and retired in 1984.

While still in high school, he enlisted in the Army as a private in 1946 and served in occupied Japan with the 11th Airborne Division as a paratrooper. Upon his return from Japan in 1947, he attended the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, graduating in 1948. He graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where he served in ROTC and was commissioned in the Army as a second lieutenant during the Korean War.

Mr. Chapman was stationed in Korea for 14 months, where he was trained as a forward observer responsible for directing artillery fire and aircraft to enemy positions. He also received the Bronze Star for taking the controls and landing a plane after the pilot was shot and killed in combat. When the war ended in 1953, Mr. Chapman was discharged as a captain and returned to Cornell to complete his degree.

Survivors include his wife of 52 years, Judith Stewart Mann Chapman, also known as Scottie; three children, Henry Chapman III of The Plains, Stewart Herbert of Middleburg and Kate Allardyce of Arlington; a sister, Galen Evans of Savannah, Ga., and six grandchildren.