Eddie Lucille Pope

Funeral services for Mrs. Eddie Lucille Pope will be held Saturday, October 31, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in the Kathryn W. Green Chapel of Green-Patterson Funeral Home in Cameron with the Rev. Billy Crow officiating. Burial will follow in the Friendship Cemetery. Mrs. Pope passed away Tuesday, October 27, 2015 at her residence in Centerville. She was formerly of the Friendship community near Buckholts. Mrs. Pope celebrated her 100th birthday this year, being born March 9, 1915 to Sam L. and Gwyneth Ross Graham, in Cameron. A lifelong member of the Friendship United Methodist Church, she dedicated her life to her church and her family. Mrs. Pope graduated high school in 1933 from Boling High School, also attending school in Cameron as a young girl. She married H. C. “Bill” Pope on September 14, 1935. He preceded her in death in 1999. Also preceding her in death was one son, William Cullen Pope, in 1939.

Survivors include one daughter, Eleanor Campbell and husband, Robert of Centerville; three sons, Robert Pope of Scottsdale, AZ, David Pope and wife, Nelda of Horseshoe Bay, and Julian Pope and wife, Phyllis of Broken Arrow, OK. Also surviving are 9 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.