Funeral, Cremation and Pre-Planning Services
Serving All Faiths
A privately owned family business offering traditional and contemporary funeral services, cremations, and pre-planning.
The famous General Trexler Estate at 1227 Hamilton Street is among the best known residences in Allentown. Filled with ornate woodwork, leaded stained glass windows, comtemporary lighting and a grand entranceway, coming to the Trexler Home is a unique experience.
Ardis Chapman
03/27/2023
Born in Alma, Michigan to Andrew Vetesk and Bertha Kelhofer Vetesk, Ardis graduated in 1955 from Michigan State. As a Danforth Fellow at Arizona State University working with the UMC campus ministry, she met G. Clarke Chapman, Jr. and married him in 1957. Clarke died in 2021. Ardis is survived by 3 daughters: Martha, Gretchen and Susannah Chapman, 3 sons-in-law: Paul Pillitteri, Paul Breslin, and Jonathan Spitz; and 5 grandchildren: Gabriella and Sebastian Spitz, Amos and Boaz Chapman, and Lukas Spitz-Chapman.
Ardis worked as a high school home economics teacher, a seamstress, and an administrator for the Young People's Philharmonic and Kinhaven Music School. Active in the League of Women Voters and longtime member of Wesley United Methodist, she was renowned for her domestic skills: baking bread, sewing and canning tomatoes before that was popular. She lived at Kirkland Village since 2011.