The Virginian-Pilot
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              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Saturday, July 6, 1996                TAG: 9607060582
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH                        LENGTH:   16 lines

HERSEY E. COPELAND SR.

Hersey E. ``Popeye'' Copeland Sr., 57, of the 1600 block of County St., died July 3, 1996. He was retired.

Survivors include his wife, Peggy Copeland; a daughter, Joyce Henderson; two sons, Hersey E. Copeland Jr. and Rickey V. Copeland; his mother, Sallie Phillips; a brother, John E. Copeland; five grandchildren; and a daughter-in-law, Barbara J. Copeland.

The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in Fisher Funeral Home. Burial will be in Lincoln Cemetery.

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