She made headlines over the last year-and-a-half for her efforts to protect and preserve the historic Memorial Park Cemetery on E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
TAMPA, Fla. — Longtime East Tampa resident and local community leader Norene Copeland-Miller has passed away at the age of 70.
As a board member for the Historic Belmont Heights Neighborhood Association, Copeland-Miller was a vocal advocate for East Tampa and often took up causes to improve her community.
She also spent decades in government and the social services sectors, where she trained and counseled community members in violence prevention, problem-solving and anger management, among other skills.
She made headlines over the last year-and-a-half for her efforts to protect and preserve the historic Memorial Park Cemetery on E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
After the owner died, the cemetery was foreclosed upon and sent to auction where a property flipper purchased the property. Copeland …