Saturday, November 14, 2015 8:45 am

Willis Copeland, 74, of Hollister, passed away Wednesday, November 11, 2015.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, Novmeber 17 at 1 p.m. from the Pine Chapel Baptist Church in Hollister. Burial will follow in the Copeland Family Cemetery. The Rev. Robert Hedgepeth will officate. Wake service will be held at Richardson Funeral Home in Nashville from 6-7 p.m. on Monday, November 16.

He is survived by his wife, Mamie "Diane" Copeland; daughters, Josephine Copeland of Spring Hope, and Delphine Wiggins of Rocky Mount; son, Bobby Russell Copeland of Bailey; step-sons, Curtis Morgan (Viola), Robert Morgan, Willie James Morgan, all of Philadelphia, PA; mother, Mattie Boone Copeland of Hollister; sisters, Sallie Ann Evans (William) of Roanoke Rapids, Doris Jean Lynch (Johnnie) of Hollister, Katha Copelin (Herman) of Hollister, and Mattie Copeland-Parker, of Raleigh; 20 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren.

Arrangements by Richardson Funeral Home, Nashville.