Raymond C. Lopé

Co-Owner,
William Sullivan & Son Funeral Homes

Raymond Lopé is co-owner of William Sullivan & Son Funeral Homes, a 110-year establishment in Utica and Royal Oak and recipient of the distinguished “Best of the Best” funeral homes by the National Funeral Directors Association. Before joining William Sullivan & Son Funeral Homes, he held several sales and marketing positions for Shell Oil in New York City.

Lopé is a well-known Macomb County business leader and was a long-time member of the Henry Ford Macomb Hospital board of trustees. He served as vice chair of the trustees and he chaired the hospital’s Strategy and Growth Committee in addition to sitting on the hospital’s Executive Committee, Macomb Nominating & Governance Committee and the Ambassador Club. He also served as a member of the HVI Council of Advisors and the Public Responsibility & Advocacy Committee for Henry Ford Health.

Lopé is a Utica/Shelby Rotary Club past president and Paul Harris Fellow award recipient and a member of the Pewabic Pottery Society, trustee and treasurer of the Macomb Oakland Guardianship and member of the St. Lawrence Knights of Columbus Council No. 2950. He received the Sterling Heights Chamber of Commerce Man of the Year Award in 1987.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from St. Francis College in New York.

Lopé was appointed to the HAP board in 2015.