Freeport icon and World War II hero Joseph Rodney “Rod” Chapman, 101, died of natural causes on Sunday, Dec. 4. In addition to his military duties, Chapman was a Freeport area historian, author and a mail carrier then the chief clerk at the borough’s post office for 35 years. Federal
World War II veteran Joseph Rodney “Rod” Chapman, who spent nearly eight months in a German prisoners of war camp during the war before escaping, died of natural causes. He was 101.