Carol Sylvia Cox Covington

Carol grew up in a loving home alongside her older brother Tommy Cox on Rayner Street in Fort Worth. An independent thinker and free spirit, she was a playful child who loved to climb trees, swim in the family’s spring-fed pool and spend afternoons playing with neighborhood friends Martha Stanton Lunday and Richard Simms.

Carol was a tomboy at heart and enjoyed long nature walks where she would collect things that caught her eye along the way. She saw the beauty in the simplest and most often overlooked pieces of nature and human spirit.

Shaped by her father’s strong moral convictions and her mother's compassionate heart, Carol set high standards for herself throughout her life. Upon graduating from Carter Riverside High School in 1956, Carol attended TCU and then attained a nursing degree from Robert B. Greene in San Antonio.

In 1961 Carol met Hugh Larry Covington at a dance at Lackland AFB. They married in 1962. Carol enjoyed traveling with her husband and being stationed overseas with him. They made lifelong friends with the other Air Force families.

The couple celebrated the birth of their first daughter, Colleen Annette, on October 25, 1964, followed by Karen Lynn on July 22, 1967. Carol loved being a mother and was very involved in her daughter's lives. She always had them first in her heart.

Carol continued her career in nursing once she returned to the states. She worked at the San Antonio Medical Center, formerly Bexar County Hospital, Methodist Hospital and the State Chest Hospital. In 1983, Carol and Larry divorced, but continued to be close friends, often spending vacations together. Carol never remarried and enjoyed living independently with her kitty Ginger and little dog Traveler at the house on Wildfern Street where she raised her children.

She had many hobbies including writing poetry, rock collecting and camping all over the state of Texas. She drove through Mexico with her brother Tom and his wife Nancy and loved their vacation in Italy.

Carol Cox Covington of San Antonio, Texas, died December 1, 2010 of complications due to Alzheimer's disease. She was 72.

She is survived by daughters Colleen Hillen and Karen Covington, grandson Cheyenne Kelker and granddaughters Daria Covington Drenker and Gwen Covington Drenker.