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Submitted: 1/7/21 • Approved: 1/8/21 • Last Updated: 1/11/21 • R376835-G0-S3
US Navy
1909-1981
Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
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)
Contributed on 1/7/21 by neldapat
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