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Frank
Pope
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[July
02, 2008]
MOUNT PULASKI
-- Frank H. Pope Jr., 88, of Mount
Pulaski, died Tuesday, July 1, 2008,
at 5 p.m. at Vonderlieth Living
Center.
His funeral will be at 10:30 a.m.
Saturday at Fricke-Calvert-Schrader
Funeral Home in Mount Pulaski, with
Bill Shanle and the Rev. Kevin
Treptow officiating. Visitation will
be one hour prior to the service at
the funeral home.
Burial will be in Lake Bank
Cemetery, rural Mount Pulaski. |
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Mr. Pope was a retired lifetime
farmer. He was also a master
woodworker and skilled furniture
maker.
He was born June 21, 1920, in
Logan County to Frank and Ella Thear
MacRae Pope Sr. He married Lucille
Wachter in Latham on Sept. 1, 1946,
and she preceded him in death on
Dec. 16, 1982. He married Mary E.
Gasaway in January 1987.
He is survived by his wife, of
Mount Pulaski; one son, Nolan Pope
of Madison, Wis.; one stepson, Jack
Gasaway of Mount Pulaski; two
stepdaughters, Mary Ann Radtke of
Mount Pulaski and Jean Davis of
Mount Pulaski; his twin brother,
John Pope of Mount Pulaski; two
grandchildren; and five
stepgrandchildren.
He was also preceded in death by
one son, Neil Pope, and one sister,
Jean Grathwohl.
He was a member of the Latham
United Methodist Church and was an
elder at the former Copeland
Christian Church before its closing. |
He was a member of the Logan
County Farm Bureau for 26 years. He
was also a member of Mount Pulaski
Masonic Lodge 87 AF & AM and Order
of the Eastern Star of Latham 507.
Memorials may be made to the
Latham United Methodist Church or to
the UMC Youth Work Camp projects.
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