Rev. Robert Bob L. Coppage

Rev. Robert L. “Bob” Coppage, 87, passed away Sunday, February 12, 2012 at Delaware Highlands in Kansas City, Kansas, where he was living. Funeral Services will be 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, February 28th at the Chapel Hill-Butler Funeral Home, 701 North 94th Street, Kansas City, Kansas. Interment will follow in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens. Friends may call from 10am until 11am Tuesday at the funeral home.

Rev. Coppage was born November 1, 1924 in Chanute, Kansas to Walter P. and Sadie R. (Easlick) Coppage, and had lived in the Chicago Area, before moving to Kansas City 55 years ago. He held many different jobs over the years, including Preaching the Gospel at New Cross Baptist Church, which was his church in Kansas City, but he had most recently worked for the Rock Island Railroad, from which he retired in the 1970’s. Robert was an Army Veteran, serving in France and the Philippine Islands during World War II, and he enjoyed hunting and fishing. He was also a member of Greater Jerusalem Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kansas. He was preceded in death by his parents.

Survivors include his wife, Yvonne Coppage of Arkansas; his children, Kerwin Coppage of Snellville, Georgia, Sandra Ladipo of Clarkson, Georgia, and Lyle Coppage of Moberly, Missouri; his stepsons, Reggie Sharpe and Rodney Sharpe, both of Ohio; his brother, Morris Coppage of Kansas City, Missouri; his sister, Eunice Thomas and her husband Gene of Kansas City, Missouri; and his grandchildren, Timothy Ladipo, Tori Ladipo and Alicia Coppage.

Fond memories and condolences may be left at www.chapelhill-butler.com, as the arrangements under the direction of Chapel Hill-Butler Funeral Home, 701 North 94th Street in Kansas City, Kansas (913)334-3366.