Pamela Copeland

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Pamela Copeland, 54, the former Pamela Scott, a native of Chauvin, La., and resident of Carencro, La., died at 12:10 a.m. Thursday, March 24, 2011.


Mrs. Copeland was employed with the Lafayette Parish School Board. Pamela worked as a teacher’s aid at Carencro Middle School. She was a veteran of the military, having served in the U.S. Army.


She is survived by her husband, John Copeland; sons, William and Michael Irvin; daughters, Jessica (Thomas) Quiroz and Sherry (Luke) Jewett; five grandchildren, Sierra Quiroz, Kelsey and Jacob Brown, and Richard and Sarah Steele; one great-great-grandchild, Victoria Nation; brothers, Anthony (Josephena) Fondaw, and Gary (Emma) and Bryan (Heather) Clark; sisters, Patricia (Larry) Roane and Paula (Mickey) Dupre; and father-in-law, Sammy Jack Copeland.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Bobby Joe Scott and the former Gale Sue Evitts; her stepfather, Harry Clark; and her mother-in-law, Joleene Free.

She is interred at Evangeline Memorial Gardens Cemetery. (Melancon Funeral Home, Evangeline Memorial Gardens Chapel of Carencro)

Pamela Copeland