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Notes for Paul Markley Jr. COPE
Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - February 17, 2006
Deceased Name: Paul M. Cope Jr.
Architect, 84
Paul M. Cope Jr., 84, an architect who helped design several Quaker buildings in the region, died of heart failure Sunday at home in Chestnut Hill.
After graduating from Westtown School in 1939, he attended Haverford College for three years. As a conscientious objector during World War II, Mr. Cope drove a medical-supplies truck in China from 1942 to 1945. After the war, he graduated in 1947 from Haverford and married Joan Lowry. They raised three children in Radnor before divorcing in 1984.
He earned a master's degree in architecture in 1950 from the University of Pennsylvania and began his career with the former Sweet & Schwartz. He worked for Vincent G. Kling until 1957, when he joined Cope & Lippincott.
He was part of the design team for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting on Cherry Street; Noyes Museum in Oceanville, N.J.; the Fine Arts Center of Haverford College; and Westtown School additions.
Mr. Cope never retired. He was designing meetinghouses in Wilmington and Radnor until shortly before his death.
Mr. Cope was a contributor to Living Witnesses: The Care of Quaker Meetinghouses, published in 2004.
Mr. Cope is survived by his wife of 19 years, Mary Lee Lowry Cope; a daughter, Alison; a son, Peter; stepdaughters Nancy and Susan Lowry; stepson William Lowry; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. A daughter, Deborah Cope, died in 1957.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. today at Arch Street Meetinghouse, 320 Arch St. Burial will be private.
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