WILLIS COPELAND


HOLLISTER - Funeral services for Willis Copeland, 74, who died Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015, will be held Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 1 p.m. at Pine Chapel Baptist Church in Hollister, with the Rev. Robert Hedgepeth officiating. Burial will follow in the Copeland family cemetery.

Surviving: wife, Mamie "Diane" Copeland of the home; daughters, Josephine Copeland of Spring Hope and Daphine Wiggins of Rocky Mount; son, Bobby Russell Copeland of Bailey; stepsons, Curtis Morgan (Viola), Robert Morgan and Willie James Morgan, all of Philadelphia, Pa.; mother, Mattie Boone Copeland of Hollister; sisters, Sallie Ann Evans (William) of Roanoke Rapids, Doris Jean Lynch (Johnnie) and Katha Copelin (Herman), all of Hollister, and Mattie Copeland-Parker of Raleigh; 20 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.

Wake services will be held at Richardson Funeral Home in Nashville on Monday, Nov. 16, from 6 to 7 p.m.

Arrangements by Richardson Funeral Home in Nashville.