Colonel Thomas Tapman “Headed West” on December 26, 2014. He is interred at the Central Texas State Veterans Cemetery in Killeen. Mr. Tapman died Friday evening in a Temple hospital. Col. Tapman was born, December 3, 1932, in Waco, the son of Harry Tapman and Tommie Little Tapman. He married Charlene Trewitt, December 28, 1958, in Gatesville.