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Smiths Station Mayor F.L. “Bubba” Copeland died apparently by suicide just days after the photos were posted by a conservative news site.
"Bubba loved his community. And he had a heart of gold and he wanted what was best for Smiths Station," Lee County Coroner Daniel Sexton said.
There is "so much more to the story" of the small-town Alabama mayor and Southern Baptist pastor who lived a secret life as a "transgender curvy woman" and author of "erotic slasher fiction," according to the editor-in-chief of the publication that broke the story.
Smiths Station Mayor F.L. “Bubba” Copeland died apparently by suicide just days after the photos were posted by a conservative news site.
Media outlets are reporting the Nov. 3 death of Smiths Station Mayor F.L. "Bubba" Copeland, who also served as pastor of First Baptist Church Phenix City.