[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 56 (Thursday, April 2, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E877-E878]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         HONORING THE MEMORY OF ELIZABETH ANN PITTROFF COPELAND

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                             HON. JO BONNER

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 2, 2009

  Mr. BONNER. Madam Speaker, the city of Mobile and, indeed, the entire 
State of Alabama recently lost a dear friend, and I rise today to honor 
Elizabeth Ann Pittroff Copeland and pay tribute to her memory.
  Known to her many friends as Betty, she was a lifelong resident of 
Mobile. She graduated from The Visitation Monastery and was a lifelong 
member of St. Pius X Catholic Church. She married her husband of 58 
years,

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Reggie Copeland Sr., just three days before he was sent to Germany with 
the U.S. Army in 1950.
  Betty's first priority was raising her children and later her 
grandchildren. She was known for seamstress skills and for being a 
prolific note-writer. Whenever she saw something in the newspaper about 
someone she knew, she would clip it out and send it to them with a 
personal note.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in remembering a 
dedicated community leader and friend to many throughout south Alabama. 
Elizabeth Ann Pittroff Copeland will be dearly missed by her family--
her husband, Mobile City Council President Reggie Copeland Sr.; their 
five children, Reggie Copeland Jr., Randy Copeland and his wife Alison, 
Gayle Phillips and her husband Lee, Riley Copeland and his wife Penny, 
and Russ Copeland and his wife Leigh; their 12 grandchildren, Tre' 
Copeland, Ryder Copeland, Randall Copeland, Anna Copeland, Grace 
Copeland, Jordan Phillips, Will Phillips, Riley Phillips, Conrad 
Copeland, Cunningham Copeland, Madison Copeland, and Anderson Copeland; 
and her sister, Mary Ellen Ham and her husband Victor--as well as the 
countless friends she leaves behind.
  Our thoughts and prayers are with them all during this difficult 
time.

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