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Businessman remembered as 'New Mexico champion' | Local News


In southeastern New Mexico, Johnny Cope defined the term “mover and shaker.”
Cope, a longtime New Mexico businessman, died Dec. 13 in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 72.
No cause of death was listed in a news release sent on behalf of friends and family.
Cope’s business career was spent in southeastern New Mexico, where he owned an oil field service company and was involved in a variety of ventures related to the oil and gas industry.
He was a noted philanthropist and helped launch the Johnny and Marty Cope Learning Center in Ruidoso, which connects youth to the Smithsonian Institution. He also donated to the athletic programs at the University of New Mexico and Texas Tech University and was involved with youth sports in Hobbs, where he was raised. ....

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