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Note: was a musician in high school and college (Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau). He played the tenor sax. He played in a jazz band (the Rockin' Crickets) while at school at SEMO. He also loved to play baseball as a kid (his teams managed by his father, Emil), and ended up badly injuring his knee rounding third base in a game when he was a young teen. This injury prevented him from being drafted into military service in Vietnam. After Steve left college (he never graduated), he moved to Texas and worked as a construction worker, putting up ceilings in buildings and also doing carpentry. Much of the work he did was on stilts. Steve smoked heavily and developed a bad drinking habit later in life, which no doubt escalated an abdominal infection he got which would result in his death at the age of 50. He lived much of his life in Texas, including Houston and Victoria, but also lived in Miami, Florida for a while. He spent his last couple of years in Moss Bluff, Louisiana, only a couple of miles from his daughter, Stephanie.
Note: Steve was probably the tallest of the three Kopp boys, standing about 6' 5". He
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