Harry Ovando Covey
Kittitas Co., WA

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Contributed by:  Shelli Steedman 4/20/2007

Harry O. Covey, 83, of Cle Elum, died Monday, Dec. 24, 1990, at Kittitas Valley
Community Hospital, in Ellensburg.  He was born March 1, 1907, in Ovando,
Mont., a son of Harry and Bertha (Paye) Covey.

He lived for 10 years in Canada, where he delivered mail by dog team under
contract with the Canadian postal service.  For the past 51 years he had lived
in the Cle Elum area, where he was a mink rancher.  He was a member of the
Swauk-Teanaway Grange.

He and Rosa Mae Zumbrunnen were married in Ellensburg on Jan. 1, 1938.
Survivors, in addition to his wife, at home in Cle Elum, include a son, Joseph
O. Covey, of Kent; a daughter, Bertha Mae Covey, of Cle Elum; five
grandchildren and eight great grandchildren; a sister, Bertha Nissen, of
Ellensburg; and a number of nieces and nephews.

Cremation will be a t Terrace Heights Memorial Park in Yakima.  A memorial
service will be held 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 30, at the Community Church in Cle
Elum, with the Rev. Jack Sondericker officiating.