Birth: Oct. 11, 1917
Death: Oct. 9, 1937, Huffman, Mississippi County, Arkansas
Mrs. Johnnie Copeland, nee Pauline Yarbrough, last spring's
graduate and a bride of one week, succumbed to a congestive chill about 8:30
o'clock Saturday morning, October 9, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louie Walker
of Huffman, Ark., cousins of the couple, with whom they were spending the week
end. She had been ailing since the Tuesday preceding, but believed it only a
malarial attack, hence did not confine herself to bed, and therefore her death
was a great shock to her family.
The young couple were married Saturday, October 2, in this
city by Rev. D.K. Foster, and it was touching that one week later he should be
called to conduct a funeral service for her. On October 11th, 1937, she would
have been twenty years old.
The deceased, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell
Yarbrough, had lived at Cottonwood for the greater part of her life. She was
graduated from the Caruthersville high school last spring and was a ranking
student and highly esteemed by the student body and faculty. She had an unusually
amiable disposition that won for her many friends, and was active in the
Baptist Church at Cottonwood, where she was one of the Sunday School teachers
and acted as pianist for the church.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock at
the Baptist church in Cottonwood, which was largely attended by the friends of
the two families, including a number from this city.
Mr. Copeland has farm lands at Gideon and is an assistant to
his brother Fred Copeland, who maintains a real estate office in this city and
New Madrid.
She is survived by her husband, her parents, two sisters,
Mrs. Mildred Dickson of Finley, Tenn., and Miss Louise Yarbrough of Cottonwood,
also two brothers, Robert and Clyde Yarbrough, also of Cottonwood. The latter
three now attend the Caruthersville high school.
Last week this paper published an item concerning the death
of an infant child of Mrs. Dickson, a double portion of sorrow having been
meted out to this family recently.
– Democrat Argus - Caruthersville, Mo. - Tuesday, Oct. 12,
1937
