Robert Duane Cope of Fort Wayne, Indiana United States was born on February 17, 1934 in Salem, OH to Selma Carline and Virgil Cope. Robert Cope had siblings Bill Cope, Allen Leroy Cope, Carl Dean Cope, and Sharon Parrish. He married Deanne Cope. He would also marry Nancy Hildebrand and they later divorced. They had children John Robert Cope and Valerie Windle. Robert Cope died at age 69 years old on November 14, 2003 in Fort Wayne, IN, and was buried on November 17, 2003 at Lindenwood Cemetery in Fort Wayne, Allen County.