Elizabeth Jean Covey

1927 - 2009

SHERMAN - Elizabeth Jean Covey, 82-year-old Sherman resident, passed away on Monday, March 30, 2009 at Medical Center of McKinney. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, April 3, at Dannel Funeral Home. Interment will follow at Georgetown Cemetery with Rev. Raymond England officiating. The family will be at the funeral home on Friday morning at 9 a.m.
Elizabeth was born on Jan. 16, 1927, in Philadelphia, Pa., to Raymond and Mary Elizabeth Stuart Shade. She graduated from Sherman High School in 1939. On May 24, 1948, she married John Covey in Sherman. They were married for 52 years before his death in 2000. Elizabeth began working at the S. H. Kress store in Sherman during high school and continued to work there after she was married. She then worked for Sears in the receiving room for 20 years.
Elizabeth was preceded in death by her parents, husband, brother, Raymond Shade, and sisters, Gladys Phares and Grace Moore. She is survived by a son, John Covey and wife Jean of Grapevine; daughters, Susan Waller and husband Lamar of Leonard, Patricia McLaughlin and husband Robert of Cairo, Egypt; sisters Clara Hamilton of Orlando, Fla., Joyce Carr of Whitesboro, and Beatrice Harbison of Sherman; granddaughters, Melanie Covey, and Amy Stephens and husband Bill, great-grandsons, Caleb and Caden Stephens and numerous nieces and nephews, as well as a host of friends.
We are truly grateful for the care she received at Autumn Leaves of Garland and the wonderful friends she made there.
You may sign the online guestbook at www.dannelfuneralhome.com.