Edward Young Coppedge

COPPEDGE, Edward Young, retired Virginia Extension Farm Management Agent, tobacco and cattle farmer, left this life on Sunday, November 28, 2010. He is survived by his loving wife of 53 years, Shirley Walters Coppedge; his children, Charles Edward, Anne Coppedge Gill and Thomas Michael; their spouses, Elaine Combee Coppedge, Tony Gill and Shannon Mills Coppedge; and seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild, all of Nottoway. Ed was born on October 31, 1934 to Granville and Edith Coppedge in Richmond, Va. He was raised in Powhatan, Va., and graduated from Powhatan High School in 1952. His love of farming was born when he spent his summers working for his uncle Tom on the old family farm in Reedville, Va. He earned a Bachelor of Dairy Science from Virginia Tech in 1957. He married Shirley Walters of Christiansburg and Pulaski County on November 28, 1957. He served a stint in the Army as a corpsman and was stationed in Germany. Ed and Shirley came to reside in Nottoway County after Ed accepted a position as a 4-H Agent before moving to the Lunenburg offices as a Farm Management Agent until he retired in 1990. Ed loved his farm and family and always had time to stop and talk with a neighbor or fellow farmer. He will be greatly missed. Family will receive friends and family at McMillian Funeral Home, 200 West Carolina Avenue, Crewe, Va., on December 1, from 7 until 9 p.m. Services will be held at St. Marks United Methodist Church, Crewe, Va., at 1 p.m. on December 2, 2010. Interment to follow.


This obituary was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.