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Submitted: 1/7/21 • Approved: 1/7/21 • Last Updated: 1/10/21 • R376832-G376831-S3
Lester
1909-1981
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Marie
1912-1993
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary for Lester
Lester G. Copeland, 71, of 211 Garrett, died at 2:10 a.m. Friday in North Plains Hospital.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the First Baptist Church of Borger with the Rev. Paul Taylor, pastor, and the Rev. Alvin Walker, associate pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery by Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
A retired pipeline gauger for Phillips Petroleum Co., Mr. Copeland was a native of Goodwell, Okla. He was a Borger resident for 30 years. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Borger.
He is survived by his wife, Marie; a daughter, Jo Hinds of Borger; a son, Donald Copeland of Crowley, La.; a brother, Paul Copeland of Oklahoma City; two sisters, Mrs. Alene Feister of Denver and Mrs. Irene Ridenour of Fredrick, Okla.; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
(Published in Borger News Herald - March 27, 1981)
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*Obituary for Marie
Borger News Herald - June 14, 1993
Marie Copeland, 80, Borger, died Friday, June 11, 1993 in Golden Plains Community Hospital.
Funeral services were at 11 a.m. today at First Baptist Church with the Rev. Steve Miller, associate pastor, officiating.
Burial was in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery by Ed Brown & Sons Funeral Directors.
A native of Little Rock, Ark., she had been a Borger resident for 43 years. She was a homemaker and member of First Baptist Church where she worked in the nursery for 30 years.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lester G. Copeland March 27, 1981.
Survivors include a son, Donald G. Copeland of Lake Charles, La.; a daughter, Jo Jean Hinds of Borger; five grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Joe Janeway, Conny Moore, John Hinds, and Bill Butler.
The family requests memorials be made to First Baptist Church nursery fund.
Contributed on 1/7/21 by neldapat
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