Kay M. Pope
Kay Margarette (Haram) Pope passed away at age 89 on October 4, 2026. Kay was born in Greenville, IL, on October 29, 1936, to Dorothy & Kenneth Haram. She was raised in Greenville by her aunt and uncle, Nellie & Robert Treloggen
Kay graduated from Greenville High School and worked at Utlaut Memorial Hospital and Family Pharmacy. She married Gary Pope on September 4, 1955. Kay and Gary had four children. They moved to New Orleans in 1972 when Gary was offered a great job opportunity. There, Kay studied and became an EMT and then a Paramedic in Training with the New Orleans Police Department. Gary was promoted to a position in Houston, where they lived before returning to New Orleans to finish out his career
Kay enjoyed traveling abroad and would accompany Gary on overseas business trips. She loved her travels to Egypt, seeing the camel races, seeing the Taj Mahal in India, celebrating carnival in Brazil, but her love for English and Scottish history and the people of Great Britain drew her back many times to London and Edinburgh
Kay later became a Master Gardener and volunteered cultivating native and tropical plants. Some of her plumeria trees still bloom each year in New Orleans City Park and throughout Lake Vista
Preceding Kay in death are her husband, Gary Pope; her sisters, Dee and Micki Haram; her sisters-in-law, Karen McCracken and Karen Haram; and her brother-in-law, Russel Pope
Surviving Kay are her children Kary Pope, Baton Rouge, LA, Barbara Landry (Bud), New Orleans, LA, Susan Crites (Randy), Plymouth, MI, and John Pope, New Orleans, LA, grandchildren, Megan Toujouse (Eric), New Orleans, LA, John Crites, Plymouth, MI, Beau Landry-Wegener (Pearce), Baltimore, MD, Paul Crites (Nicole), Plymouth, MI, Ross Fossum (Virginia), Baton Rouge, great-grandchildren, Eli & Eleanor Toujouse, Luke Fossum, Alden Landry-Wegener, sibling, David Haram, Indianapolis, IN, sisters-in-Law: Evelyn Pope, Carlyle, IL and Geraldine Griffiths (Lonnie), Sorento, IL and many nieces and nephews in Illinois and Indiana
Graveside services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 24, 2026, at Sunnyside Cemetery in Sorento, IL
In lieu of flowers, please consider donating a tree in Kay’s honor or donating to Sunnyside Cemetery to help maintain this historic burial ground in the village of Sorento (population 402). Sunnyside Cemetery Association, PO Box 267, Sorento, IL 62086
Plummer Funeral Home in Litchfield is assisting the Pope family. To leave an online condolence, please visit www.plummerfuneralservices.com
