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Birthplace: Old Emma, TX

Death: Crosbyton, TX

Occ: Farmer, Sugar factory worker

Father: E. B. Covington

Mother: Ella Bird

Source: Adams Funeral Home
Transcribed by Bettye Odom

• Obituary

Memorial services for Samuel P. Covington were conducted at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Johnnie Williams, pastor, officiating. Mr. Covington had been a Crosbyton resident since 1938.

He was 78.

Burial was in Crosbyton Cemetery, under direction of Adams Funeral Home.

The Old Emma native moved to Crosbyton in 1938 from California. He was a retired farmer and had previously worked in sugar manufacturing. He married Lucille Jacobson July 29, 1927, in Albert Lea, Minn.

Survivors in addition to his wife, include; two sons, Sam Covington Jr. of Lubbock and Phillip Covington of Belmond, Iowa; two daughters, Mrs. Ann Cornelius of Crosbyton and Mrs. Ella Jo Chote of Fort Worth; a brother, Woodrow Covington of Dana Point, Calif.; three sisters, Mrs. Sallie Warren of Fresno, Calif., Leta Covington of Verdugo City, Calif., and Mrs. Ella Jo Smith of Laguna Niguel, Calif.; and nine grandchildren.

Serving as pallbearers were: Dick Snodgrass, Jimmy Karr, Jimmy Dunn, Billie Cornelius, George McNeill, Billie Higginbotham, Bob Perkins, and David Collier.

Crosbyton Review, March 3, 19977

Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes