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Avril Winford Covey

18 Oct 1915 – 12 May 2006

Birth18 Oct 1915
Death12 May 2006
CemeteryPlainview Memorial Park
Plainview , Hale County , Texas , USA
Added byDebbie McPherson on 30 Oct 2021
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14318387

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Avril Winford Covey, 90, passed away Friday, May 12, 2006, at a Sweetwater nursing center. Services will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 16, 2006, at Lemons Funeral Home in Plainview, Texas with Joe Bagby officiating. Interment will follow in Plainview Memorial Park, directed by Elliott-Hamil Funeral Home, 542 Hickory, Abilene, Texas. Pallbearers will be grandsons and grand-son-in-laws. The family will receive friends at a visitation 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Monday at 4th and Elm Church of Christ in Sweetwater, Texas. Avril was born to Della Pearl {Collins} and Rubin Avril Covey on October 18, 1915 in Pottsboro, Texas. He met the love of his life, Julia Alene Lyde, in elementary school and married her on November 27, 1937 in Hollis, Oklahoma. Winford was an independent garage man for twenty-eight years and an air plane mechanic at Tinker Air Force Base before going to college. Once he completed college he began a 17 year career teaching Auto Mechanics – Vocational Education for the Plainview and then Irving, Texas, Independent School District. Winford was pleased to teach young men a vocation so they could support themselves. During his lifetime, Avril was a Lion (Plainview Lions Club), a member of VICA, a carpenter, a golfer, a deacon at 10th and Utica Church of Christ in Plainview, and a 30 year member of South MacArthur Church of Christ in Irving. He also loved country music (especially anything with a fiddle), touring with his wife and sometimes kids and grandkids in his motor home and cooking pancakes for traveling buddies as well as his grand- children. Avril moved to Sweetwater, Texas in 1998 to be closer to family. He was a member of 4th and Elm Church of Christ. Mr. Covey was a loving husband, a caring father and the grandpa that everyone wished they had. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife; and two brothers. Survivors include two daughters, Theresa Henry and husband, Marvin, of Archer City, Texas Gwen Riggs and husband, Jerry, of Sweetwater, Texas; two brothers, Bobby Jack Covey and wife, Teresa, and Rubin Avril Covey, Jr. and wife, Cathryn; a sister, Lucille Motsenbocker; six grandchildren; and fourteen and a half great-grandchildren. Memorials may be made to The Children's Home of Lubbock at P.O. Box 2824, Lubbock, Texas 79408.

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