Leta McFarlin Chapman was born in Texas and graduated from Holdenville High School.  Induction to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame was a family affair for Mrs. Chapman, as her parents Mr. and Mrs. R. N. McFarlin and her sister, Pauline C. Walter, also are members of the prestigious Hall.  Mrs. Chapman was a member of the Chapman-McFarlin-Barnard Institute with extensive oil, ranching and investment interests in Oklahoma and the Southwest.  Imbued with the same philanthropic spirit that led her parents to build a church near the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman and an auditorium on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Texas, Mrs. Chapman married a man who gave away $25 million during his lifetime and set up trusts in his will of an estimated $100 million, all the while shunning personal publicity.  Mrs. Chapman waived her right as the widow under the law of succession and set up the Ida M. McFarlin perpetual charitable trust in honor of Leta’s mother, with the Children’s Medical Center in Tulsa as the beneficiary.