Kay Margarette (Haram) Pope died at the age 89, on Oct. 4, 2026.
Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 24, at Sunnyside Cemetery in Sorento.
Mrs. Pope was born in Greenville, on Oct. 29, 1936, to Dorothy and Kenneth Haram. She was raised in Greenville by her aunt and uncle, Nellie and Robert Treloggen.
She graduated from Greenville High School and worked at Utlaut Memorial Hospital and Family Pharmacy. She married Gary Pope on Sept. 4, 1955. She and her husband had four children. They moved to New Orleans in 1972, when her husband was offered a great job opportunity. There, she studied and became an EMT and then a paramedic in training with the New Orleans Police Department. Her husband was promoted to a position in Houston, where they lived before returning to New Orleans to finish out his career.
Mrs. Pope enjoyed traveling abroad and would accompany her husband 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.
She 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.
Mrs. Pope is surived by her children, Kary Pope of Baton Rouge, LA, Barbara Landry (Bud) of New Orleans, LA, Susan Crites (Randy) of Plymouth, MI, and John Pope of New Orleans, LA; grandchildren, Megan Toujouse (Eric) of New Orleans, LA, John Crites of Plymouth, MI, Beau Landry-Wegener (Pearce) of Baltimore, MD, Paul Crites (Nicole) of Plymouth, MI, and Ross Fossum (Virginia) of Baton Rouge, LA; great-grandchildren, Eli and Eleanor Toujouse, Luke Fossum and Alden Landry-Wegener; sibling, David Haram of Indianapolis, IN; sisters-in-law, Evelyn Pope of Carlyle and Geraldine Griffiths (Lonnie) of Sorento; and many nieces and nephews in Illinois and Indiana.
She was preceded in death by 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.
In lieu of flowers, please consider donating a tree in her honor or donating to Sunnyside Cemetery to help maintain this historic burial ground in the Village of Sorento (population 402) at Sunnyside Cemetery Association, PO Box 267, Sorento, IL 62086
Plummer Funeral Home in Litchfield is serving the family. To leave an online condolence, please visit www.plummerfuneralservices.com.
