I'm facing this sentence

> お父さんがまだ生きてる頃はね...

I think I'm able to guess the meaning which may sounds as "When my father was
still alive...." but the "ending" はね is gonna puzzling me. I suppose there's
some ellipsis (copula omitted) or it's just an emphatic expression (maybe the
same)?

Many thanks in advance.
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ellipsis
はね。。。at the end of a sentence
The sentence in question is a "partial" sentence in which the main verb is
omitted. Similar things happen very often in English, too:

> よく来たの？  
>  Did [you] come (here) often?
>
> うん、お父さんがまだ生きてる頃はね...  
>  Yeah, when Dad was still alive ([I] used to come here)...
>
> (The subject may be "she" or someone else instead of "you/I".)

The "full" version of the sentence is お父さんがまだ生きてる頃はよく来た, but よく来た is left out
since it's redundant. This は is a topic marker, and it's almost mandatory here
because it has a contrastive nuance (i.e., now this person no longer visits
the place). ね is just a sentence-end/filler particle.

BTW, please try to provide the full context when asking a question like this.
No one can tell the omitted verb without the context.
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