JEFFREY LEE COPE

February 19, 2020

LOCKWOOD- Services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Lockwood United Methodist Church Family Life Center, 410 N. Main St., Lockwood, for Jeffrey Lee Cope, 63, Lockwood, who died Monday, Feb. 17, 2020, after a sudden heart attack at his home.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday, at the Family Life Center.

Arrangements are under the direction of Daniel Funeral Home, Lamar.

Contributions are suggested and made payable to Arcola Christian Church Library Fund, in care of the funeral home.

Condolences may be shared at www.dfhlamar.com.

Survivors include his wife, Barbie; two children, Arin Ogden and husband Riley and sons Cooper and Jackson, Lockwood and Kaci Jones and husband Alan, and expected baby, of Springfield; his mother, Marcia Cope, Neosho and sisters, Sandy Black and husband Brent, Wolverine Lake, Mich. and Pam Cope, Neosho.

He was preceded in death by his father, Don and parents-in-law, Bob and Jody Moss and immediate family members, nephew Travis Wilson and uncle, Kenneth Cope.

Mr. Cope was born June 9, 1956, in Abilene, Texas, to Don and Marcia (Mitts) Cope. He spent the majority of his childhood in Neosho, but graduated from high school in Bisbee, Ariz. in 1974. After attending the University of Arizona-Tucson, he moved back to Neosho and completed his degree at Crowder College. In the summer of 1976, he married Barbie Moss in her parents’ home and she survives.

He and his uncle, Ralph Cope, co-owned Towne and Country Carpet on the Neosho square. He volunteered as a Newton County Reserve Deputy for seven years and then joined the Neosho Volunteer Fire Department in 1983. His first daughter, Arin Ogden, was born that year. In 1985, daughter Kaci Jones was born and he began his career with the US Postal Service. He worked as a rural sub, city carrier and supervisor in Neosho before becoming the postmaster in Lockwood in 1996. He retired from that position in April of 2015.

While living in Neosho, he served as a deacon at the Rocketdyne Road Church of Christ and was involved in 4-H and the Neosho Chamber of Commerce. Upon moving to Lockwood, he was an active member of the Lockwood Fire Department, Chamber of Commerce, Dade County Community Betterment Committee and he coached his daughter’s basketball team. He was an avid hunter, fisherman and rockhound. He loved the mountains, camping, four-wheeling and spending time with his grandsons.