Lanier County GaArchives Obituaries.....Copeland-Stallings, Tina Hawkins October 23, 2009 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Shirley McMillan Durden http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006039 February 12, 2013, 4:16 pm The Berrien Press - November 4, 2009 Tina M. Copeland-Stallings, 46 and Cami Nicole Copeland, 7, died Oct. 23, 2009. On Friday, Oct. 23, God proclaimed his need for Tina and Cami. Tina was born September 20, 1963 in Culpeper, VA, where she enjoyed her days as church pianist and drum major at Culpeper County High School where she graduated. After graduation she married Jim Sheldrake and moved to Winter Haven in 1982 where they had their sons, Bart and Brett. Tina was a member of St. John's United Methodist Church where she sang in the church choir. She was employed by Chalet Suzanne, Nunez Collins and Touchton and Cheatham and Goleno and Company while she lived in Polk County. Tina's second love, after her children, was child birth education, teaching classes and assisting couples at the Regency Medical Center in Winter Haven. In May 2000, Tina moved to Gainesville when she married Matt Copeland and thereafter had Cammi, in 2002. Tina continued her love as a child birth educator at Shands Medical Center in Gainesville and was also employed by Purvis, Gray & Co. and later, Gator Custom Mobility. Tina and Bob Stallings had just returned from their Las Vegas honeymoon, where, after timeless years, they proclaimed their everlasting love and were married in the Grand Canyon on Oct. 17. She is survived by her husband, Bob Stallings of Lakeland; her father and step- mother, Joseph Lee and Darlene Hawkins of Louisa, VA; her mother, Ruby Hawkins of Madison, VA; sister, Angela of Chester, VA; brothers, Greg of Meadville, PA and Aubrey of Manassas, VA; sons, Bart Sheldrake of Lakeland and Brett Sheldrake of Archer; father-in-law, Ray Stallings and the late LaVern Stallings; stepdaughter, Brandi Stallings of Nashville. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/lanier/obits/c/copeland2878nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.4 Kb