Carolyn Chapman

Carolyn A. Chapman, 79, of Austin, Texas, died Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, of colorectal cancer, after a long illness.
She is survived by her daughters, Kimberly Levinson and Lisa Beck-erman; her sons-in-law, Adam Levinson and Robert Pollowitz; her brother, Edwin Cultra; and her sister-in-law, Judy Cultra.
She was born in Nashville and grew up in Union City. She attended the University of Florida, where she was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English.
After college, she resided in Hollywood, Fla., southern California, and then eventually moved back to Union City, to help out in the Cultra family business and with her aging parents. In 2015, she moved to Buckner Villas Green Ridge community in Austin, to be closer to her daughter and son-in-law.
She held a number of positions prior to retirement, including working as a bookkeeper and a manager of a General Nutrition store. When she returned to Union City, she became the manager of the former Cultra Motor Inn and the former Biltmore Hotel, which were owned by her family, and she was the co-owner of a minority owned contractor engaged in the highway landscaping business.
She won several awards for the quilts and afghans that she designed and made. She loved cats and enjoyed Sudoku, drawing, painting, reading true crime and mysteries, travel, jazz, blues and rock music and drinking beer.
The funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Cook Walden Funeral Home, located at 6100 North Lamar Blvd. in Austin.
The family asks that donations be made in lieu of flowers to Hospice Austin, www.hospiceaustin.org.
To share condolences with the family, please visit www.cookwaldenfuneralhome.com.

Published 9.19.18