Myrtle M Copeland 1933-2000

COPELAND BOLES

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 11/17/2009 at 21:22:08

Mapleton Press
7 September 2000

Member of St. John’s Methodist Church dies

Myrtle M. Copeland, age 67, of Mapleton died Wednesday, August 30, 2000, at Mapleton, Iowa.

Services were held 10:30 a.m. Friday, September 1 at St. John’s United Methodist Church in Mapleton with Pastor Shirley Textor officiating. Burial was in the Nishnabotna Cemetery, Manilla, Iowa. Marie Whiteing was the organist and soloist for the service. Music was “Amazing Grace”, “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” and “Rock of Ages”. Arrangements were made under the direction of the Armstrong Funeral Home of Mapleton.

Myrtle Mae Copeland was born May 1, 1933, at Ocheyedan, Iowa, the daughter of Edgar and Bernice Boles. She graduated from Sibley High School with the class of 1951. On November 21, 1954, she was united in marriage to Garnet Copeland at Sibley, Iowa. They lived in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and California and returned to Iowa in 1979. Garnet passed away October 15, 1990. Myrtle resided on a small acreage until recently when she entered Maple Heights Nursing Home in Mapleton, Iowa.

She was a member of St. John’s United Methodist church in Mapleton.

Those survivors left to cherish Myrtle’s memory include two sons, Wayne Copeland and his wife, Debra of Ricketts, Iowa and Lee Copeland of Mapleton, Iowa; one daughter, Jane Pingle and her husband, Jason of Odebolt, Iowa; one grandson, Jack Pingle; five brothers and their wives, Robert and Lennie Boles of DesMoines, Iowa, Marvin and Winona Boles of Florence, Missouri, Jim and Joyce Boles of Spirit Lake, Iowa, Dennis and Michele Boles of Springdale, Arkansas and Daryl and Lowe Boles of Bentonville, Arkansas; two sisters and their husbands, Betty and Kenneth Graves of Odessa, Missouri and Joyce and Bill Janelle of Portland, Texas, along with several other relatives, neighbors and good friends.

Along with her husband, Myrtle was preceded in death by her parents.

Pallbearers were Wayne Copleland, Lee Copeland, Jason Pingle, Tom Graves, Kim Graves, Don Bubke and Bill Riecks, Jr.