Services for Velton Jessie “Deedar” Copeland will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Travelers Rest M.B. Church with the Rev. Thomas Benard officiating. Burial will follow at Cedar Hill Cemetery. Visitation will be from 1 until 6 p.m. Friday at Williams Funeral Service with family present at 5 p.m.

Mr. Copeland died Friday, June, 4, 2010, at his home. He was 65.

He was a member of Travelers Rest Baptist Church. He was a U.S. Army veteran, a retired member of the Laborers’ International Union of North America No. 75 in Joliet, Ill., and American Legion Tyner-Ford Post 213.