Ashland Daily Independent

July 31, 1948

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Roy E. Pope Claimed By Death Today

Widely-Known Business Executive Had Undergone Major Surgery

Roy E. Pope, 54, widely known lumber company executive and business man of Ashland, died about 12:45 a.m. today in the Holmes Hospital in Cincinnati.

He had under gone a severe operation there last Tuesday and had appeared to rally afterward, but about noon yesterday his condition changed for the worse. He had been in bad health for only a few weeks.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete today, pending the return of his wife and daughters to Ashland from Cincinnati. The Lazear Funeral Home will be in charge.

Mr. Pope was president of the Conasauga River Lumber Company, secretary and treasurer of the Kitchen Lumber Company and a director of the Second National Bank of Ashland. He had been for many years a director of the Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers Inc., and was chairman of that association's extension committee.

He was a member of the First Methodist Church, a past commander of Clarence Fields Post, American Legion, a member of Ashland Lodge of Elks and active in varied social, civic and patriotic circles in Ashland, where he had formed a wide circle of friends.

He was born June 12, 1894, at Leon, Carter County, the son of Sherman and Ida Kitchen Pope. His father died during his early boyhood and the family moved to Ashland. He graduated from Ashland High Senior High School and attended the University of Wisconsin.

In 1917, he enlisted in the Army and at the time of the Armistice had been commissioned a lieutenant of cavalry.

In 1920 he married Miss Mildred Bruce of Millersburg, Ky., who survives him. He is also survived by two daughters, Mrs. Clifford N. Goff, Jr. of Prestonsburg, and Miss Millie Lou Pope, at home, by three grandchildren, by his mother, Mrs. Ida Kitchen Clevenger, of Ashland, two sisters, Mrs. Walter MacPherson of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. Wade Gates of Ashland, and two half sisters, Mrs. John Ingram of Parkersburg, W.Va., and Mrs. Joe Matthews of West Palm Beach, Fla., together with a large number of other relatives in this section.

He had been connected in a business way with the extensive Kitchen lumber interests in varied positions of increasing responsibility and importance since his early manhood.

Thank you,

Becky Fox

(Beckfox@aol.com)