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(662)746-4532

Visitation

Monday June 10 at First United Methodist Church with visitation starting at 12:30 p.m.

Service

Monday June 10 at First United Methodist Church at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. Bill Poole officiating. Burial will follow in Glenwood Cemetery.

Obituary

PFC Copeland is a combat veteran of the US Navy and the Mississippi National Guard. He served in World War II followed by service with Company D, 155th Infantry Mississippi National Guard then another term of active service in the US Navy during the Korean War. He fought in many battles in the Pacific Theater and walked on the beach with General MacArthur in the Philippines.

During World War II he served aboard the USS Heywood during all of the following time period. At the outbreak of war the Heywood departed Norfolk, Virginia, 10 April 1942 with reinforcements for the Solomon Islands, then replenished at San Pedro, California, before sailing for Wellington, New Zealand.

She embarked U.S. Marines for amphibious warfare training, then sailed to land them in the amphibious assault in the Tulagi-Guadalcanal area 7 August 1942. She shot down an enemy plane 8 August and frequently repelled air attacks as she shuttled desperately needed supplies and troops into Guadalcanal from the New Hebrides, New Caledonia and ports of Australia. Outbound from the besieged Solomons, she evacuated wounded Americans and Japanese captives.

Heywood returned to San Pedro, California, 16 January 1943 for repairs. She sailed north 24 April, carrying fighting men who landed 11 May in an amphibious assault on Attu, Aleutian Islands. She returned nearly 500 wounded veterans of the campaign for Attu to San Francisco, California, 6 June, then put to sea with occupation troops landed to occupy Kiska 15 August 1943.

Heywood returned to Wellington, New Zealand, 1 October 1943 to train and embark fighting men landed in amphibious assault on bloody Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands 20 November. She returned to Pearl Harbor 3 December for amphibious warfare training culminating in the amphibious assault for the capture of the Marshall Islands which commenced 31 January 1944. She put garrison troops ashore at Kwajalein and Majuro, then landed assault units as Americans swiftly swept on to Eniwetok. With the Marshalls secured, the transport overhauled in San Pedro, California, then returned to the Marshalls 11 May to prepare for the invasion of the Marianas Islands. She landed assault troops at Saipan 16 June and on nearby Tinian 24 July as America took a giant sea step toward Japan herself.

Heywood participated in the long overseas sweep to Leyte in the Philippines, landing assault troops in the initial invasion of 20 October 1944. She had a brief rest at Manus in the Admiralties where she embarked assault troops landed on the shores of Lingayen Gulf 9 January 1945. She landed reinforcements to assist in securing Mindoro 9 February 1945. then returned to the States for overhaul before embarking reinforcements for the capture of Okinawa, the last stepping stone to Japan.

Heywood received seven battle stars for service in World War II:

Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings (7 August 1942)
Capture and defense of Guadalcanal (August 1942 to February 1943)
Gilbert Islands operation (Occupation of Kwajalein and Majuro Atolls, 31 January 1944; Occupation of Eniwetok Atoll, 17 February 1944)
Marianas operation (Capture and occupation of Saipan, 16 1944)
Tinian capture and occupation (24 July 1944)
Leyte operation (Leyte landings, San Pedro Bay, 20 October 1944)
Luzon operation (Lingayen Gulf landings, 9 January 1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Heywood_(APA-6)

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John Bishop Copeland Jr., 93, of Yazoo City died at The Mississippi Baptist Medical Center in Jackson, Wednesday June 5, 2019. An Agent with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company he was a member of First United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his sisters, Lucy Lovertich and Wilma Walsh, both of Brandon, and Patsy Grantham of Braxton; and brothers, Jack Copeland (Edna) of Westminster, Calif., Fred Copeland (Evelyn) of Braxton and Col. Joe Copeland (Aldina) of Colorado Springs, CO.
John was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Copeland; and a brother, Billy Copeland.
In World War II John served in the U S Navy on The USS Heywood. He also served Yazoo County as a deputy sheriff, and at one time operated a Southland Oil Station.
Services will be Monday June 10 at First United Methodist Church with visitation starting at 12:30 p.m. followed by services at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. Bill Poole officiating. Burial will follow in Glenwood Cemetery.
Serving as pallbearers are Trey Lovertich, Brian Lovertich, Craig Lovertich, Ricky Lovertich, David Walch and Jimmy Ward.

I went on a search for my fifth-grade teacher — here’s what happened when I found her

As I clicked “publish” on my blog post, I had a faint hope that I would find my fifth-grade English teacher, Ms. Saucier. The blog post was titled “If Jesus were a fifth-grade teacher.”

I had lost touch with Ms. Saucier several years before and despite online searches, I had come up with nothing. The blog post was both a tribute and a last-ditch effort to find her.

The blog post didn’t make it to Ms. Saucier — not at first. It did make it to a reader named Amy. Her mom knew someone who knew Ms. Saucier, and she offered three possible contact numbers. None of them worked. I left my number with Sue and prayed that God would help Ms. Saucier and me reconnect.

Three weeks later, I got a text from an unfamiliar number. It read, “Hello Josh Rogers. My friend Sue gave me your number, and I am so thrilled to be able to say hello to you. Have thought of you often…please catch me up on your life. Look forward to hearing from you. Love you, Ms. Saucier.”

With my heart racing, I immediately called the number and waited. A woman picked up and answered with that warm, familiar voice I remembered from fifth grade.

“Hi, Ms. Saucier,” I said. “I just wanted to talk so I could say thank you.”

She couldn’t believe how hard I had worked to find her, but I told her I felt like I had to. I wanted her to know how much she had meant to me.

“My family was going through a lot back then and I was acting out a lot. I think the other teachers saw me as a problem child but you made me feel like you loved me.”

“I really did love you,” she said.

“Remember that time I wrote a short story and handed it in to you even though you didn’t even assign it?” I asked.

She laughed.

“I’ll never forget what you wrote on it after you read it: ‘Great job! I’ll vote for you when you run for President!’ You have no idea how much that meant to me.”

“I said it because I believed it, Joshua. I always knew you were going to do something very special with your life.”

The conversation went on for quite a while, just as naturally as our conversations did when I was a kid. And before we said a teary goodbye, she said, “I hope you know I still fully expect you to be President one day — and I’d better get an invitation to the inauguration.”

Classic Mrs. Saucier.

The other day I was thinking about Ms. Saucier and it brought to mind a story about Jesus and ten lepers – social outcasts of their day. Jesus healed all ten simultaneously, but only one returned to thank Him.

“Didn’t I heal ten men? Where are the other nine?” (Luke 17:17).

I can hear sadness in Jesus’ question, like a disappointed parent whose child shows no gratitude on Christmas morning. But then there’s a warmth you can feel when Jesus turns and says to the one who returned, “Rise and go; your faith has made you well” (Luke 17:19).

The man’s grateful return to Jesus resulted in a double blessing; and today, you can experience a blessing of your own, if you’re willing.

At different points in your life, Jesus has sent along a “Ms. Saucier” — a person who helped you feel safe and loved. Maybe, like my Ms. Saucier, it was a person whose love brought healing.

Don’t be one of the nine lepers who disappears and never returns to offer thanks. Be the person who remembers the gift you’ve received and find the one who gave it. Tell that person what he or she meant to you — tell God what that person meant to you. You may end up being the one who receives the biggest blessing.

FDA says some frozen berries contaminated with hepatitis A; Kroger, other grocery stores involved

By Coral Beach on June 7, 2019

Federal officials issued a public alert tonight warning about frozen berries that have tested positive for hepatitis A contamination. Private Selection brand berries sold at Kroger stores and other retailers are consequently under recall. The FDA alert applies to all Private Selection brand frozen fruit.

Laboratory tests conducted as part of an ongoing special project revealed the contamination, according to the public alert from the Food and Drug Administration. The agency didn’t report how many packages or pounds of the frozen berries were distributed. The Kroger Co. recall notice says the implicated berries were “manufactured” by Townsend Farms. In 2013 frozen fruit from Townsend Farms was linked to a 10-state hepatitis A outbreak.

“The FDA is advising consumers not to eat and to throw away frozen fruit purchased from Kroger and other retail locations packaged under Kroger’s ‘Private Selection’ brand,” according to the FDA alert.

“These products are available at Kroger and other retail locations and have a two-year shelf life. The FDA is working with the manufacturer on this matter. . . . The FDA is continuing to investigate to determine whether there are other implicated products.”

As of the posting of the alert this evening, neither the FDA nor the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had received notice of any confirmed hepatitis A illnesses in connection with the implicated fruit. However, it can take up to 50 days after exposure for symptoms of hepatitis A infection to develop. Some people don’t develop symptoms, but they are carriers of the virus and can infect others.

As reported in the FDA alert, the blackberries subject to the recall are labeled as follows:

The FDA posted this photo with the public alert. Certain information on the label was blacked out.

PRIVATE SELECTION FROZEN TRIPLE BERRY MEDLEY, 48 OZ (BEST BY: 07-07-20; UPC: 0001111079120);
PRIVATE SELECTION FROZEN TRIPLE BERRY MEDLEY, 16 OZ (BEST BY: 06-19-20; UPC: 0001111087808);
PRIVATE SELECTION FROZEN BLACKBERRIES, 16 OZ (BEST BY: 06-19-20, 07-02-20; UPC: 0001111087809)

The FDA alert did not report when the blackberries had been distributed to retailers or made available to consumers.

However, Kroger’s recall notice on the FDA website says all of the company’s grocery chains received the recalled frozen berries. Stores include:

Supermarkets – Kroger, Ralphs, Dillons, Smith’s, King Soopers, Fry’s, QFC, City Market, Owen’s, Jay C, Pay Less, Baker’s, Gerbes, Harris Teeter, Pick ‘n Save, Copps, Metro Market, Mariano’s
Multi-department stores – Fred Meyer
Dillons Marketplace, Fry’s Marketplace, King Soopers Marketplace, Kroger Marketplace, Smith’s Marketplace
Price-impact warehouse stores – Food 4 Less, Foods Co

People who have eaten the blackberries in the past two weeks could benefit from post-exposure vaccine treatment. The treatment is not effective if given more than two weeks after exposure, according to the CDC. Most adults have not been vaccinated because the vaccine was not available before the mid-1990s.

“The FDA recommends that consumers who consumed the frozen berries listed above and have not been vaccinated for HAV consult with their healthcare professional to determine whether post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is indicated,” according to the FDA alert.

“Contact your healthcare provider if you think you may have become ill from eating frozen blackberries, or if you believe that you have eaten any of the frozen blackberry products noted above within the last two weeks.”

Kroger has removed the recalled items from store shelves and initiated its customer recall notification system, according to the company’s recall notice on the FDA website. The system alerts customers who may have purchased recalled products through “register receipt tape messages” and phone calls. Customers who have questions can call 800-KROGERS.

Hepatitis A virus (HAV) can result in a liver infection that may not be apparent, according to the FDA alert. However, when symptoms occur, they can range in severity from a mild illness lasting a few weeks to a severe illness lasting several months. Contamination of food with the hepatitis A virus can happen at any point, from growing through harvesting, processing, handling, and even after cooking.

Hepatitis A can have a long incubation period and can have serious health consequences for some people, especially those who are immune-compromised. People infected with HAV may not have symptoms until 15 to 50 days after exposure, which often makes it difficult to determine the exact exposure that led to illness. Symptoms may include fever, headache, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, yellowing of the skin or eyes (known as jaundice), dark urine, and pale stool. Some adults and many young children do not show symptoms of HAV infection even though they are carrying the virus and can infect others.

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