Elizabeth Ann Brown Cope 74, of Mt. Holly passed after a long battle with dementia at Willow Ridge Memory Care in Charlotte on October 22, 2024.
Elizabeth had many passions, most importantly babies, children and youth, and none more important than her four boys and grandchildren!!
She graduated from UNCC with a nursing degree in 1972. She specialized in NICU care at Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte and later at Alachua General and Shands General Hospital in Florida.
She loved her Bunko group at church. She helped with VBS and the youth always sharing a story of taking the youth on trips to Lake “J.” She also loved cooking for the youth and cooking for her family.
She was a whiz with a sewing machine. She was part of the design company Redo Your Roost making any type of household linens imaginable. She helped alter wedding dresses, make clothes, but her most cherished by her family are the baby quilts made for most of her grandchildren for their birth.
She loved her boys fiercely and was a huge advocate and cheerleader for them, and later their wives and new stepdaughter, throughout the rest of her life. She never missed a sporting event, which is saying a lot with four boys. She helped Robert learn to read and got involved in Boy Scouts to help three of her boys achieve their Eagle Scout.

 She had a special love for her grandchildren often taking care of
Cassidy and Zoey when they were little. She also traveled across country to be with Stephen and Amber, and with Robert and Whitney when they had their first babies.
Elizabeth was preceded in death by her parents Miles Earl Brown and Anna Ida Ueleke Brown of Winston-Salem and her brother Miles Brown.
She leaves behind her husband Norman Cope, and her four boys, a stepdaughter and their families. Christopher and Pearl Cope, Eric Cope, Robert and Whitney Cope, Stephen and Amber Cope, and Laura and Jimmy Muana.
Her grandchildren include: Andrew and wife Delaney Muana and Ian Muana, Troi Lewis, Cassidy, Zoey, Emilie, Wyatt, Gwendolyn, Winston, Rhydian, and Alice Cope.
Her great-grandchildren include: Mateo and Simeon Muana She is forever in our hearts.
A short visitation will be held on Sunday October 27th, 2024, from 4-4:30pm, at the First Methodist Church of Mt. Holly, followed by a remembrance service at 4:30pm, officiated by Pastor Barry Drum.