Jimmie Lucille Covington was a pillar of quiet strength and a grace-filled child of God. She entered her heavenly home on July 20, 2025.
The youngest child of James Robert Fults and Dola Lee Davis, she was born in Littlefield, TX. She was delivered at home by her father on January 13, 1931. In order to have a birth certificate, her late Aunt Lavada Bullock accompanied her to the courthouse as a witness to her birth.
Jimmie worked as a telephone operator in San Diego, CA where she met the love of her life Lorenzo Ross Covington. They were married three months later in Clovis, NM and shared 70 years together. Jimmie was a Navy wife during the Korean War.
Life with Ross was an adventure and she was always ready for a challenge. She moved regularly with her husband and eventually with their four young daughters in tow. When Ross began working for NASA, the family lived in Maryland, Alaska, Madagascar, California, and Alabama. Travel was in their blood.
Everywhere they lived, their faith in God fortified them. Jimmie taught Sunday School, led Girls Auxiliary, was a member of the Women’s Missionary Union, went on mission trips and served where she was needed. She attended seminary classes in Huntsville, AL.
Jimmie was predeceased by her parents; seven siblings; her husband, Lorenzo Ross; and her son-in-law, the Reverend David Sheehan.
She is survived by her daughters, Lyn Sheehan of Huntsville, AL, Jackie Schetz and husband, Joe, of Chesterfield, VA, Rhonda Hargrove and husband, Victor, of Huntsville, AL, and Janie Williams and husband, Mike, of Florence, SC; her dear niece, Mary Landrum, of Red Oak, TX; sister-in-law, Joan Holmes, of Belen, NM; her nine grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
The family thanks the wonderful staff at Amedisys Hospice.
Services will be held at a later date.
Memorials can be sent to the Madison Baptist Association for Disaster Relief, 2318 Whitesburg Dr., Huntsville, AL 35801 (https://www.madisonbaptists.org/ministries/disaster-relief) or the Central Volunteer Fire Department, 379 Ryland Pike, Huntsville, AL 35811.
