Sam is also survived by his older brother, Gordon Covington, late of San Marcus, Texas. Aaron Covington of Nederland a daughter, Diane McKee and her husband Don, of Corpus Christi another son, Marc, and his wife Denise of Port Arthur a son, Roger, and his wife Dana of Orange, Texas and lastly, a daughter, Lauri Grantham and her husband Gary of Russellville, Arkansas. They returned to Port Arthur to raise a family of five children who survive them today: their oldest son, Dr. While in California, Sam married Marga Hoelscher, a remarkable woman of simple grace but indomitable character whose gifts complemented Sam’s. He is well remembered for his deeply rich, but authoritative, stentorian, speaking voice, which in his later career as a minister, caused just a little bit of jealousy among his preaching brethren. His resume generated while at the Playhouse is impressive, including credits for example, as the eponymous character in Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt”.
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Returning home from Japan, Sam enrolled in series in the then Lamar Tech, the University of Houston, and eventually, in the prestigious Pasadena Playhouse in California, where he pursued the craft of theatre. Anticipating greetings from his neighbors and an inevitable summons from his Uncle Sam, Covington enlisted in the United States Air Force, in which he served honorably for four years while stationed in Japan. With moving to Port Arthur still as a young boy, Sam entered into Port Arthur public schools, graduating a proud Yellow Jacket from Port Arthur Thomas Jefferson in 1950, just as war erupted on the Korean peninsula. Through what can only be the patina of the past, he remembered fondly a house without electricity, fetching water from the spring in the back, and hitching the mule team to the wagon to go into town on Saturdays. His earliest memories were of living on a farm in Coffeyville, Mississippi during the Great Depression. Sam was born a ten-pound baby in Atlanta, Georgia on Augin a frame house located on what is today the campus of Georgia Tech University, to Benjamin and Carolyn Covington. Battling bravely multiple medical issues over the past many years, Samuel Covington, a long -time resident of Port Arthur, went to be with his Lord and Savior in the early morning hours of June 28, 2018.
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