Covey, Perry D. 1931-2003

COVEY, CHAMBERS, LACINA, WALTON, MC VEIGH, BEAL, ATHERTON

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Date: 6/23/2005 at 22:01:40

MONROE -- Perry Dean Covey, 72, of Monroe died Sunday, Dec. 14, at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 2 p.m. at the Monroe United Methodist Church. Cremation will follow the service.

Visitation will be held today after 2 p.m. at Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Monroe where the family will be available from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Memorials will be accepted to the Perry Dean Covey Memorial Fund.

The son of Howard Perry and Ruth (Chambers) Covey, he was born April 2, 1931, at his home in Mahaska County. He graduated from Oskaloosa High School and served in the United States Army from 1951 until 1953 in the 82nd Airborne. On Nov. 27, 1975, he married Sharon Lacina in Toledo. He worked for 51 years at Maytag and retired in 2001. He was a member of the UAW Local 997.

Mr. Covey enjoyed woodworking, hunting and Sprint Car Racing, and he lived most of his life in Monroe.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Kevin D. Covey of Des Moines; two step-sons and a daughter-in-law, Michael R. and Annette Walton of Moscow Mills, Mo., and Russell W. Walton of Cedar Rapids; two grandchildren; two sisters, Patricia Joyce McVeigh of Des Moines and Joanne Beal of Tracy; and three brothers, Donald Robert Covey of Oklahoma City, Okla., William Covey of Oskalsooa and Joseph Covey of Monroe.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Jean Atherton.

Newton Daily News, Tuesday, December 16, 2003