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DATE: Thursday, December 29, 1994            TAG: 9412290344
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH                         LENGTH: Short :   26 lines

LINDA C. COPELAND

Linda C. Copeland, 51, of the 5600 block of Picadilly Lane, died Dec. 27, 1994.

She was a native of Norfolk and was a former manager of the Portsmouth Naval Hospital, the Officers and Enlisted Club, and the Portsmouth Elks Club. She was the widow of Joseph G. Tim Copeland.

Survivors include her sons, Edward L. Hoffman and Richard W. Hoffman, both of Portsmouth; one brother, Alfred S. O'Neal Jr., of Portsmouth; and a sister-in-law, Faye Lapsley of Chesapeake. She was preceded in death by her parents, Alfred S. and Katherine Sawyer O'Neal.

The graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens Mausoleum by the Rev. Mark Burns. Snellings Funeral Home, Churchland Chapel. The family will be at the funeral home today from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB