Roy "Phillip" Cope^[1]

1946 - 2001  (55 years)

• Name	Roy "Phillip" Cope
  Born	7 Nov 1946
  Gender	Male
  Died	30 Nov 2001	Bryson City, North Carolina   [2]
  Buried	Swain Memorial Park Cemetery, Swain County, North Carolina   [3]
  Person ID	I206956	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	22 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Vernon Lee Cope,   b. 19 Jul 1902,   d. 31 Jul 1980  (Age 78 years)
  Mother	Nora Patterson,   b. 19 Dec 1906,   d. 5 Jul 1966  (Age 59 years)
  Family ID	F78876	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Rhonda Ownby
  Children	+ 1. Kevin Cope   2. Andy Cope
  Family ID	F78870	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Buried - - Swain Memorial Park Cemetery, Swain County, North Carolina  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Newspaper Article, Asheville CitizenTimes (NC), 4 Oct 2005. Helen Dixie Ownby obituary [S142] Newspaper Article, Asheville CitizenTimes (NC), 1 Dec 2001. BRYSON CITY - Roy "Phillip" Cope, 55, succumbed to cancer at his home on Toot Hollow Road, Friday, Nov. 30, 2001. A native of Swain County, he was the son of the late Vernon Lee and Nora Patterson Cope. He was also preceded in death by three brothers, Jim, John and Harold Cope. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War during which he was wounded in action and received the Purple Heart. He later was self-employed as a plumber and electrician. He is survived by his wife, Rhonda Ownby Cope sons, Kevin Cope and his wife, Misty, and granddaughter, Miranda, of Sylva, Andy Cope and his fianc?, Donna Parsons, of Atlanta grandson, Tyler Taylor Cope of Cherokee a sister, Martha Nell Moore of Stone Mountain, Ga. brothers, Charles Lee Cope of Cullowhee and Wayne Cope of Bryson City a mother-in- law, Helen Ownby of the home several nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends. The funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Bryson City First Baptist Church of which he was a member. The Rev. John Tagliarini will officiate with burial in Swain Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Crisp Funeral Home where the body will remain until placed in the church 30 minutes prior to services. Pallbearers will be Bob Marr, Bob Thomas, George Oliver, Russell Winchester, Jack Parton, Talmadge Jones and Vernon "Rock" Ledford. [S147] Find a Grave, (Memorial: 55330139).