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Beatrice Pope Dies at 85

Services are scheduled for Thursday at Macland Presbyterian Church.

Posted by Michael Stone (Editor), October 25, 2011 at 04:17 pm

Beatrice Marie Holland Pope, an 85-year-old from Powder Springs, died Sunday.

Services are scheduled for 11 a.m. on Thursday at . Interment will follow at Powder Springs Memorial Gardens.

Born May 15, 1926, Bee was retired from Lockheed Medical. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Hendrick Pope Sr.

She is survived by her children, Jane Ellen Varner and Edward M. Varner Sr., James Hendrick Pope Jr. and Maggi Pope, George Pope, and Beebe Sowar; grandchildren, Michael Pedro and Jennifer Pedro, Katherine Anderson, Laura Mauldin and Kemp Mauldin, James Pope, Whitney Thrower and Trey Thrower, and Edward Varner Jr.; great-grandchildren, Cooper Pedro, Ella Pedro, Archer Mauldin, Mason Anderson, and Lolly Thrower; sisters, Linda Holland Selfridge and Bobby Bridges; her beloved dog, Sugar Bear; and nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Macland Presbyterian Church, 3615 Macland Rd., Powder Springs, GA 30127, or Wellstar Hospice, 4040 Hospital West Drive, Austell, GA 30106. An online guestbook is available at www.westcobbfuneralhome.com.

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