Ina Faye Copeland

Faye spent the early years of her childhood on a farm in Lakeview with her mother Lindsey Warren and her brother and sisters.

On March 8, 1946 in Farwell, Texas, Faye married Leslie Ray Copeland. They shared 63 years together making homes in California and Colorado but finally settling in Texas. They lived in Lubbock for the past 52 years.

Faye was a homemaker and stay-at home mother until 1977 when she decided to pursue her dream of becoming a nurse. After much prayer and study, she received her GED and completed the work necessary to graduate nursing school in 1978 as a Licensed Vocational Nurse. She worked at Methodist Hospital as a post partum nurse for 16 years retiring in 1994. Faye saw her job as a ministry and was thankful for the opportunity it gave her to touch the lives of countless mothers and babies.

Faye was a faithful, dedicated Christian woman who supported the ministries of J. Vernon Magee, Charles Stanley, Chuck Swindoll and David Jeremiah. Over the years, she served as a GA leader, a Sunday School teacher and in WMU. But perhaps her most treasured service was to her family as a prayer warrior and spiritual counselor. For the past 15 years she was a member of Indiana Avenue Baptist Church.

Mrs. Copeland was preceded in death by her mother, Lindsey, and her father Jim Warren; her brother, Ralph Warren; her sistersNaomi Warren, Ruth Warren, Ethyl Nelson, Gladys Giles, and Georgia Foster; her son Brad; and one grandchild Mallory.

She is survived by two sons, Ted and wife Crystal, Chris and wife April, all of Lubbock; a daughter, Darla and husband James Wright of Wichita Falls. She is also survived by nine grandchildren, Shellie Smith, Shawna Watts, Misty Hill, Chad Copeland, Jason, Justin and Joshua Wright, Marissa and Madison Copeland; and six great grandchildren, Ashton and Ayden Smith, Kerstan and Brianne Watts, Hunter Hill and Quenton Wright.

Visitation will be held Sunday, October 17, 2010 from 5:00-7:00 pm at Resthaven Funeral Home. Celebration of Life Services will be held at 1:00 pm on Monday, October 18, 2010 at Indiana Avenue Baptist Church with Bro. Jim Gerlt officiating and Faye’s nephew, Bro. James Giles assisting. Burial will follow at Resthaven Memorial Park. Memorials may be made to VistaCare Hospice. Please join us in celebrating

Arrangements under the direction of Resthaven Funeral Home & Cemetery, Lubbock, TX.