Carl A. "Jim" Pope

Carl A. “Jim” Pope, age 76, of Selma, died Monday, July 23, 2012 at Rogue Valley Medical Center.

A funeral service will be at 2:30 p.m., Saturday, July 28, 2012 at Selma Baptist Church with Pastor Monty Pope officiating. Interment will follow at Deer Creek Cemetery. Hull & Hull Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.

Jim was born February 1, 1936 in Red Bluff, California to AD & Cora (Spliethof) Pope. As an infant, he moved with his family to Selma where he grew up, attended Central Grade School and then Kerby Union High School through the 8th grade. In March 1953 he married Agnes Ritter in Medford, Oregon. From 1954 to 1956 he served in the United States Army during the Korean Conflict and was an instructor for Ranger Training in Oahu, Hawaii. After returning to Oregon he was an instructor at the Fort Vannoy Job Corps (currently the site of Rogue Community College) in the mid 1960s until it closed. At that time, he moved his family to Coos Bay for a brief time while he worked for the BLM. After returning to the Illinois Valley, he worked in the timber and road construction industry as a logger, heavy equipment operator, and truck driver until his retirement around 1994. After retirement, Jim and Aggie camped at various logging sites in Southern Oregon while Aggie worked as a night watchman for different logging companies.

Jim was a member of the Deer Creek Grange and the NRA. He was also a volunteer member and past-president of the Deer Creek Cemetery Association as well as Deer Creek Cemetery caretaker.

His hobbies included hunting, camping, fishing, and traveling. Each year he looked forward to elk hunting, and when his grandsons were young, camping and clamming at Charleston, Oregon. He especially enjoyed spending time with his family.

In addition to his wife of 59 years, Agnes Pope of Selma, Oregon; survivors include three children, Jimmy Pope and wife Julie,Thomas Pope, and Sandra Box and husband Lonnie Box all of Selma, Oregon; six grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; and a brother, Ivan Cross of Cave Junction, Oregon.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and three brothers, Franklin Henry Pope, Edward Elmer Pope and Lewis John Pope.