Death
Generoso Pope died of a heart ailment at age 59 in April, 1950, and was interred in a private mausoleum adjacent to the main road (Central Avenue) in Woodlawn Cemetery. His wife Catherine Richichi Pope died in 1998 at age 101. The entire Pope family is interred at Woodlawn except for Gene, Jr., who is buried at Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Cemetery in Royal Palm Beach, Florida.
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