Celebration of Life Services for Mr. Carvel Oren "Buddy" Cope, Jr., age 57, of Livingston will be conducted 4 p.m., Friday, August 31, 2018, from the chapel of Speck Funeral Home. Rev. Craig Green will officiate. The familiy will welcome friends on Friday afternoon from 3 p.m. until time of the service.
Buddy passed from this life on Tuesday evening, August 21, 2018, at his residence. He was born in Overton County on December 5, 1960 to the late Carvel D. Cope, Sr. and Bobbye Jean Reed Cope. He was a 1979 graduate of Livingston Academy, and a member of the Livingston First Methodist Church. Buddy enjoyed fishing and the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Lakers.
He leaves his two sisters, Monica Eldridge & husband Boone of Cookeville, TN, and Karen Byrd of Fairfax Station, VA; nieces, Dr. Amy Thompson, Mary Jeanes, Hannah Breymeier, and Rachel Byrd; nephew, Jordan Byrd.
Buddy was preceded in death by his parents.
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