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Robert L Copeland

Male 1936 - 2003  (67 years)


 

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Obituary- Copeland, Robert

Robert Copeland
ROSSVILLE — Robert “Bob” L. Copeland, 67, Rossville, died Tuesday, May 6,2003, at a Rossville nursing home.

Mr. Copeland had worked tor Irby Construction in Alabama from 1954-58. He worked for Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. from 1958 until he retired June 1, 1997.

He was born March 13, 1936, in Fyffe, Ala., the son of Millard and Buna Stephenson Copeland.

Mr. Copeland had lived in Rossville since 1958. He grew up in Fyffe, where he graduated from Fyffe High School in 1954.

He was a member of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Rossville, the United Steelworkers of America AFL-CIO Local Union No 307 and the Rossville Booster Club.

He married Jo Martinek on Aug. 30,1958. She survives.

Other survivors include a son, Steven Copeland, Sedgwick; five daughters, Anna Lane, Wamego, Sheila Copeland, Barb Newsham, Vickie Martinson and Trish Heim, all of Rossville; his mother, Buna Copeland, Fyffe, Ala.; three sisters, Doris Poe, Trenton, Ga., Peggy Windor, Huntsville, Ala., and Martha Griffin, Columbus, Ga.; 13 grandchildren; six stepgrandchildren; and one great-grandchild.

Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Rossville. Burial will be in the Rossville Cemetery.

He will lie in state after 2 p.m. Friday at Piper-Verschelden Funeral Home in St. Marys. A rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the church building fund or the Rossville High School football program and sent in care of the funeral home.


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