Fred L. “Bubba” Copeland was an American politician and pastor who served as mayor of Smiths Station, Alabama from 2016 until his death in 2023.

Bubba Copeland children: Meet his 3 kids

Copeland was married to Angela Copeland, a teacher at Smiths Station Junior High School, and together they had three children. Bubba Copeland had three kids named Carter, Abbykate, and Ally Catherine.

Bubba Copeland passed away on 3 November 2023 at the age of 49, he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after being involuntarily outed as a transgender woman by a local conservative news blog.

The television station reported that some have criticized the site’s reporting in the wake of Copeland’s death, with one local resident saying, “Things that were obviously private came out publicly and quite frankly unexpectedly. I can’t imagine, again, what that must be like for the mayor, his family, and for anyone who’s been affected by this.”