FRANK COPLEY
Prominent Young Man Was Buried Last Sunday
Frank Copley, 23 years old, a prominent and popular young
Paintsville man was instantly killed in an automobile accident at
an early hour Saturday morning, May 18, 1935. His two companions
William Stapleton and William " Bucky" Boyd were both injured, but
not seriously. William Stapleton suffered a broken kneecap and
cuts and bruises while " Bucky" Boyd received cuts about the head
and a Crushed hand and arm and an injury to his leg.
According to the reports they were returning from a party near
Prestonsburg and the car in which they were riding plunged into the
ditch at the Mayo Trail about seven miles south of Paintsville.
William Stapleton who was driving became confused by fog, which
overhung the road and drove the car off the highway. The car
overturned and Frank was crushed beneath it.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in the Mayo Memorial
Church. They were in charge of the Rev. H. G. Sowards and the Rev.
Odia J. Polley. A choir composed of local men and women sang
several impressive songs during the ceremony. Burial was in the
Preston Cemetery.
Surviving him are his mother and father Mr. And Mrs. S. N. Copley,
three brothers, Clarence, James Turner and Robert Walker and a host
of relatives and friends join with his immediate family in mourning
his untimely death. The active pallbearers were fellow employees
of Sandy Valley Grocery Company. There were Bird Cox, R. D.
Sprenger, Roy Nickell, Con Trimble, Wonnie Trimble, Darwin McCloud,
Oscar Williams and Chase McClure, Honorary pall bearers were
Harrison H. Wheeler, Melvin Wheeler, Sherman Wheeler, Carl
Strafford, W. Howes Meade, Stephen Hager, Walter Daniel, Vivian
Daniel, LeRoy Slone, Maurice Bailey, Robert Horlow, Howard Preston
Howard Jenkins, Howard Patrick, Douglas Ramey, Manuel Robinson,
Earle Powell, Geo. W. Conley, Marvin Atkinson and Crit P. Williams,
all close personal friends.
The Mayo church was filled to capacity with relatives and friends
who came to pay their last respects.
Frank Copley was one of the most popular and outstanding young men
of Paintsville. He attended the Mayo College until that
institution closed. HE then entered the Paintsville High School
where he was graduated in 1930. He entered the business school,
operated by Miss Onie Hill where he was an outstanding scholar.
Immediately after finishing this work he entered the employ of the
Sandy Valley Grocery Company and worked there until the day of his
death. He made rapid strides with this local organization ant at
the time of his death he was the head of the advertising
department.
It is said by those who knew him bet that there was not more
affable, energetic and capable young man in the employ of this
company, not withstanding it has in its employs more than 100
employees.
Through his extraordinary ability and the energy he put into his
work during he four years he was in the employ of Sandy Valley
Grocery Company, he rapidly advanced from a mere office by to the
Head of the Advertising Department of this concern. EH was not
satisfied to learn only the routine office work but had a desire to
know the people with whom he was dealing with. And through this
desire and interest eh manifested in his work, he came into contact
with the merchants and businessmen through out Eastern and Central
Kentucky, Western West Virginia and Southern Ohio.
He not only loved the work for which he was engaged but he had full
faith and confidence in his employers and it was through this
confidence and the knowledge eh had of the wholesale grocery that
he became a stockholder in the Lexington Grocery Company, Lexington
Kentucky, which stock he owned at he time of his death.
In early childhood Frank associated himself with the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and remained a member until his death.
The floral contributions at this funeral were most beautiful and
was the largest floral display seen at a funeral in this city in a
number of years.
His friends numbered all who knew him and the shock caused by his
sudden death will long remain in the hearts of those who knew and
loved him. His cheery smile and sunny disposition will be missed
from the lives of his friends and associates and his passing
leavers a vacancy that never can be filled.
Paintsville Herald
Thursday
5-23-1935
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