DON COPE STATION AGENT, TICKET COUNTER AGENT, SENIOR TICKET COUNTER AGENT 1965 - 1985? DEN Just got word that Don Cope passed away at 87 last Friday the 4th of Feb.. no obit yet. There will be a service this Saturday the 12th Feb. at 2:00 pm at the Altura Spanish Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses 350 Laredo Aurora Colorado .. phone number 303 364 9791. Worked with Don in Denver for Frontier many years and his specialty was Lost and Found. We enjoyed so many great times.. His wife said that an obit would be out sometime tomorrow. -Eric Mason (2/10/11) Here is his obit from the paper. -Dwight Brend (2/10/11) Obituary or Memoriam Franklin O. "Don" Cope Jr., 87, of Aurora. Husband of Berniece; father of Steve Cope, Kathy Littleton, George Faber, Jr. & Kathy Caster; grandfather of 8; great grandfather of 5; brother of Eugene Cope. Retired from Frontier Airlines and owner of Aurora Craftsmen Carpet Cleaning. Memorial service, Saturday, February 12, 2011, 2:00pm, Kingdom Hall or Jehovah's Witnesses, 350 Laredo Street in Aurora, CO. -Denver Post on February 10, 2011 D COPE: Birthday 9/24/23, seniority date 12/29/65, per the 6/1/70 DEN Station Roster. F O COPE: Ticket counter agent seniority date of 11/27/72, emp# 01554, on the 1/1/74 FL/ALEA Seniority List (before portability of seniority). Don Cope listed at DENLL on the 11/25/85 DEN CENTREX list. F O COPE JR: TCA seniority date of 12/29/65, emp# 01554, on the 7/1/84 FL/ALEA Seniority List (after portability of seniority). He is not on the 8/9/86 DEN Station Roster nor the 1/1/86 FL/ALEA Seniority List. He is also not on the 1966 FL/ALEA seniority lists so he may have started with CN. He may have retired when he turned 62 on 9/24/85 Not to be confused with aircraft mechanic Donald Cope. -Jake Lamkins (2/10/11) I remember quite well working with Don in L&F. Exceptional man of integrity and judgment as I learned a lot about the airline business from Don. So kind and temperate but at the same time, he never took any crap from unruly passengers. RIP, my friend. -Harold McDonnell (2/10/11) Posted at the FL Club: DEN agent Don Cope has died Just got word that Don Cope passed away at 87 last Friday the 4th of Feb.. no obit yet.. there will be a service this Satirday the 12th Feb. at 200pm at the Altura Spanish Congregation of Jehovah's witnesses 350 Laredo Aurora Colorado .. phone number 303 364 9791 Worked with Don in Denver for Frontier many years and his specialty was Lost and Found.. we enjoyed so many great times.. His Wife said that an Obit would be out sometime tomorrow. -Eric Mason ------------------------------------------------------ Dwight Brend sent Don's obituary which is at http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/denverpost/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=148466246 Leave a note in Don's guestbook. -Jake Lamkins (2/10/11) Email to Eric: Thanks for the info you've sent. Did Don retire before the bankruptcy? Or go into management. I can't find him on any of my seniority lists or the 8/9/86 DEN Station Roster. -Jake Lamkins (2/10/11) Don, as far as I can remember, was there till the end but he may have left when they offered the buy out.. cant remember. he had lots of seniority but was not in Managment as far as I can remember.. almost always worked Lost and Found.. He might have been a senior agent at one point... he may have been under Franklin O cope. -Eric Mason (2/10/11) Email to Joe Max Johnson: Do you recall a DEN CN agent named Don Cope when you were manager there? He recently passed away and I'm trying to nail down when he started. -Jake Lamkins (2/12/11) Sorry, I don't remember Don Cope at all. I was manager for CN in DEN for only about a year, just before the FL/CN merger. Fred Elliott was there, maybe he can remember. -Joe Max Johnson (2/12/11) Email to Fred Elliott: Do you recall if Don Cope worked for CN at DEN starting in 1965? He was a DEN STCA in 1985 and I'm trying to find out when/where he started. He just passed away - you may remember him. -Jake Lamkins (2/12/11 Sorry to hear about Don Cope. The first time I met Don was DEN CN when I transfered in from COS. We both worked several areas together. Don worked for CO for many years before he came to CN. He was the inflight customer service rep. for them. -Fred Elliott (2/12/11) Email to Mike White: Hi Mike, Do you recall if Don started with CN? I can't find him on the 1966 FL seniority lists. -Jake Lamkins (2/13/11) I think he did. I believe he started in one of the southern Kansas airports. He also was a pilot in the military. Our nickname was Capt. Don. I don't think he ever flew though for the airlines. -Mike White (2/13/11) I’m deeply saddened to learn of the passing of any and all of our marvelous Frontier family. The Spring issue (#43) of the Frontier News is to me extremely poignant because I personally knew the majority of those reported “Gone West”...........I’ve worked with Don Cope, “Luke” Lutkiewicz & Johnny Gibb......All of whom were indeed the “Salt of the Earth” and made our Bird (Frontier Airlines) really Fly. -Bob Pearson (6/10/11) Photos u can maybe use Frontier 1 Jan Jernegan Don Cope in center of photo Frontier 2 Glen Palser to the right of this photo Roger Utsunomiya Frontier 3 Charlie Marquez on the left Dolly McPhee Frontier 4 Bill Sullivan If u need me to re-do these to single photos i can.. I know u will need to crop out people Eric Mason (1/13/12) Posted at FLacebook and the FL Club: DEN senior ticket counter agent Don Cope's memorial webpage has been upgraded. Eric Mason sent a photo of Don. Post your remembrances. -Jake Lamkins (2/9/12) I am so sad to hear of Don's passing. We worked together in DEN with CN and FL before I moved to PHX. He was a wonderful person and he helped me learn so much. I will always have only good memorys of the time we worked together. -Greg Davis (2/13/12) I just saw Don Cope's obit. I can't say just when Don started with CN but he'd been a supervisor or manager with DENCO and had quit to pursue another career. That didn't pan out so he talked to Sam Cales and CN hired him. Since he had a lot of airline experience, CN gave him wages normally earned by a senior employee but with zero seniority. I'm not sure what his wage was but I hired on with CN on 3-6-61 and when he came to CN after that date he was making more than me. I think he'd been with FL for quite a while before his seniority caught up with his pay and he finally got a raise. Don and I became good friends and he had many stories about the early airline industry and his "Mateys" at CO. He'd been an Old Timer at CO and was familiar with Stapleton from long ago. The terminal building that was in existence when I hired on was before the expansion of 62-63-64 or whenever the "new" terminal was built but Don had worked in the terminal previous to the one I started at. One of his military stories was how the Army? pilots trained to take off with bombers off of the aircraft carriers that bombed Japan. He said that an outline of the carrier deck was painted on the ground and the procedure to land involved landing the A/C just as the painted line disappeared under the nose and dropping directly on the ground. He said in the beginning lots of planes overshot the other end of the painted area before they learned how to land without running out of runway. Don was a good friend and very airline knowledgeable. And he drove a Corvair............ -Jim Lane (5/6/12) FLacebook The other day I was going through the memorial page for Don Cope since I have many memories of him. My ex-wife and myself first met in high school and after high school she moved to Grand Junction and I went on to college at then Metro State College in Denver. A number of times I did day trips to Grand Junction to see her and whenever I was checking in at the gate for the flight to Grand Junction Don Cope would always be the agent at the gate doing the check-in. A couple of years after I graduated from college my ex-wife and myself get married. I am not sure how it came about, but Don Cope was the one who performed the marriage ceremony. This is why I always remember Don Cope with fond memories. -Bill Buse (9/23/21) Don Cope was mainly over lost & found. What a special guy. We called him Pop Cope. -Jan Lefler (9/23/21)