Frank Lofton Pope

             ANSONVILLE – On Thursday, February 1, 2024, Mr. Frank Lofton Pope, 77, passed away peacefully at Duke University Hospital in Durham.

            Funeral services will be 3:00 PM Saturday, February 10, 2024, in the Chapel of Leavitt Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Red Hill Baptist Church Cemetery.

            The family will greet friends from 6:00 PM until 7:30 PM Friday, February 9, 2024, at the funeral home.

            Frank was born November 29, 1946, in Anson County, NC and was the youngest child of the late Horace Kenneth Pope and the late Pearl Tucker Pope. He was a graduate of Anson High School and a veteran of the United States Army. He was also a member of Red Hill Baptist Church.

            He retired from Columbus McKinnon in Wadesboro, formerly Duff Norton, after 40 years of service. 

            Frank spent most of his life enjoying the outdoors. He was an avid hunter and hunted everything from rabbit, coon, deer and squirrel on occasion. His boys recall the fishing trips as children where he was seldom able to fish himself for keeping them in line, but enjoyed the trips just the same watching them do what he always loved. The family enjoyed the North Carolina mountains almost every year taking in the fall colors as the leaves changed and bringing back mountain apples each trip. Frank enjoyed his farm and cows, carrying on what his father had started years earlier. Neighbors always knew when he was cutting hay from the familiar pop of his old John Deere. He grew his own garden for years sharing a lot of the tomatoes or corn grown each year.

            Those left to cherish his memory are his sons and daughter-in-law, Brent and Jennifer Pope of Norwood and Tracy Pope of Conway, SC; his grandchildren, Lofton Pope, Lani Pope and Levi Pope; his sisters-and brother-in-law, Shasta Pope of Ansonville and Grace and David Pope of Nashville; his sister-in-law, Ann Pope of Winston-Salem; his beloved dogs, Scooter, Snapper and Chewi.

            In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Ruth Ann Biles Pope, his infant daughter, Tamatha Pope, and his brothers, Ken Pope, Brad Pope and Tom Pope.

            In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Red Hill Baptist Church Brotherhood, P.O. Box 207, Ansonville, NC 28007.

            The arrangements are in care of Leavitt Funeral Home and online condolences may be made at www.leavittfh.com