Mable C. Copeland

MRS. MABLE CLARA COPELAND,wife of Mr. Arthur C. Grigsby, daughter of the late Mr. Vanderbilt Copeland and the late Mrs. Savannah West Copeland, was born in Embro, Warren County, North Carolina on January 13,1932. She was called to rest on February 14, 2011 while in Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior at an early age while attending Lovely Hill Baptist Church in her childhood home. In Baltimore, for many years she was a member of Fairfield Baptist Church. Years later she attended St. Paul Baptist Church before becoming a founding member of Mt. Tabor Baptist Church. In addition, for many years she attended the women's Saturday Sunday School classes at Huber Memorial Church. When the LORD called her home, she was a faithful and active member of Grace Memorial Baptist Church. She had taught adult Sunday School classes, and was a member of the Golden Disciples Ministry. She loved attending and participating in adult Sunday School Classes. She was also extremely proud and honored to be a 199 graduate of the Baltimore School of the Bible. She was educated in the Warren County Public School System of North Carolina. She attended John R. Hawkins High School. However she completed the twelfth grade and graduated from Rayen High School in Youngstown, Ohio. For thirty- three years she was a faithful and dedicated employee of Baltimore City Hospital (later Bayveiw). After retiring she worked at Oak Crest Retirement Village for ten years. Mrs. Copeland leaves to cherish her memory: her husband of thirty-five years, Arthur C. Grigsby; her Children, Angela Ross, William H. Copeland, Jr., (Yolanda) and Manley Douglas Copeland, Sr., ( special friend, Angela Canedy) all of Baltimore, Maryland; one sister, Viola Pearl Parker of Portsmouth, Virginia, four sisters-in-law, Harriet Kearney Copeland of Youngstown, Ohio, Jessie Copeland of Youngstown, Ohio, Sylvia Copeland of Buffalo, New York and Evelyn Perry of Woodstock, Maryland; five grandchildren, six great-grandchildren, and three step-children. She also leaves to honor her memory a large number or relatives and friends, including her special girls Deborah Copeland, Phyllis Way, Francine Myles, Victoria Woods, Delores Crowder and Wilma Coleman, Mrs. Copeland was extremely sociable and easily made friends. She enjoyed talking, reading, traveling and word search puzzle books. Her first Marriage to William H. Copeland, Sr., ended in a divorce. She was preceded in death by eight brothers, Curley, Percy, Walter, Van, Arthur, Bernard(Doc), James(Bill) and Hawk Carter, and four sisters, Edith, Elizabeth(Lizza), Thennie and Irene.

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Mable C. Copeland

January 13, 1932 - February 14, 2011