Obit of Copeland, Lawrence W - Cimarron County, Oklahoma

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::Willowbar Cemetery--Keyes OK

Amarillo Globe News 22 Apr 1997

Lawrence W. Copeland

KEYES, Okla. - Lawrence W. Copeland, 69, died Saturday, April 19, 
1997.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in First Baptist Church with 
Jason Kearney, pastor, and the Rev. Derek Cox officiating. Burial 
with military graveside honors will be in Willowbar Cemetery by 
Cimarron Mortuary.

Mr. Copeland was born in Bucklin, Kan. He was raised on the family 
farm near Mullinville, Kan. He attended and graduated from the 
Mullinville school. After high school he attended business college at 
Hutchinson, Kan.

He started farming and moved to Cimarron County to farm the Copeland 
homestead. He served his country as a medic in Germany. After serving 
in the Army he settled on the Copeland homestead.

He married Leora Jean Sizemore in 1951 at Bucklin. He was a member of 
First Baptist Church, the American Legion and the Masonic Lodge. He 
also was a lifetime member of the American Association of Retired 
Persons.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Glen Copeland of Keyes; two 
daughters, Melinda Robinson of Boise City and Lanita Miller of 
Woodward; a brother, Earnest Copeland of Littleton, Colo.; eight 
grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.

The family requests memorials be to Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice of 
Amarillo.
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