Individual Details

1940 Census. Kansas City, Jackson Co, MO, Hh 64
3025 White St. - lived in same place in 1935
Willard Covey, 25, b. MO, Machinist, Machine Shop
Jeanette, wife, 22
Patricia, dau, 5
Muriel, dau, 2
Ernest Mitchel, Cousin, 21, Appretice machinist, machine shop

Kansas City Star, The (MO) - Monday, April 27, 1998
Willard Covey, 83, Independence, MO, passed away Friday, April 24, 1998, at Knapp Medical Center, Weslaco, TX. A Masonic service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 30, at D.W. Newcomer's Sons Floral Hills Chapel, followed by a funeral service.
Burial will be in Mount Moriah Cemetery. Visitation will be 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, at the chapel. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests contributions to the Shriners Hospitals for Children.
Mr. Covey was born November 6, 1914, in Bates County, MO. He retired as owner and operator of Brown-Covey Precision Grinding & Machine Works. He was a 51-year member of the Eastgate Masonic Lodge No. 630, where he was a Master Mason and also a member of the Eastgate York Rite Bodies. He was Past Advisor for the True Kindred, Chanter for the Ararat Shrine Temple and a member of the St. Paul United Methodist Church. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Herb Covey and Otis Covey, and one sister, Marie Bousman. Survivors include his wife, Ruth Covey, of the home; four daughters, Patricia Cannafax, Kansas City, MO, Jean Hughes, Lee's Summit, MO, Nedra Gargus, Tunas, MO, and Diana Ackley, Independence, MO; 13 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

Birth	6 Nov 1914	Bates County, Missouri
Marriage	13 Apr 1934	Jackson County, Missouri - Jeanette Marie Poynter
Marriage	13 Jun 1941	Fort Leonard Woods, Missouri - Ruth Marie Barnhart
Death	24 Apr 1998	Weslaco, Hidalgo County, Texas

Spouse

Ruth Marie Barnhart (1920 - 2012)

Spouse	Jeanette Marie Poynter (1915 - )
Child	Living

Father	Oscar Orestes Covey (1885 - 1924)
Mother	Edith Leola Montgomery (1887 - 1979)