Beloved brother David Roman Swope passed away on May 12 at the age of 64. He was born on June 6, 1959 which was both D-Day and David Day for our family. He was predeceased by his brother Stuart and parents Dr. Joe and everyone’s “other mom” Pat. David is survived by sisters Cathy Swope (Scott Olson) Minneapolis, Dr. Susan Swope (Kerry Luster) and Sally Tague (Dr. Robert Tague); brother Joseph Swope (Cheryl) and many nieces and nephews including Alexander Tague who was with him during his last hours.

If you needed a special paint job or faux finish, you were lucky to get David to do it. He famously made the metal door frames at the Swope lake house look so much like wood you could almost drive a nail into it. He could do the hardest thing with his faux finishing, make patterns look random.

Dave has a big family of cousins who worked, played and loved him and will miss him tremendously. His bandmates were his other family and we’re sure he is playing a Poco song with Stuart now.

A celebration of David’s life will be held in June.