Lois Covington 84, died Saturday evening, December 16, 2023, at the Mercy Hospice House, Hiawatha

Funeral services will be held 11:00 Tuesday morning, December 19, 2023, at the Wayne Zion Lutheran Church, rural Monticello with interment in the Oakwood Cemetery, Monticello.  Pastor Wade Reddy will officiate at the services.   Friends may call after 10:00 at the church on Tuesday, Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello has taken Lois and her family into their care.

Surviving are 4 children, Steve (Paula), Waterloo, Kim (Roger) Velarde, SanAntonio, TX, Terry, Monticello and Kyle (Karey), Myrtle Beach, SC., 9 grandchildren, Ross, Nathan, Cassidy, Nicole, Brianna, Phillip, Destiny, Gabrielle, Isabelle 4 great-grandchildren Zaden Flores, Myah, Ronan, Koda Luna and another one on the way.   She was preceded in death by her parents an infant brother and her sister Virginia.

Lois Arlene Harms was born March 18, 1939, at Manchester, Iowa.   She was the daughter of Paul and Faye Cass, Harms.   Lois graduated from the Monticello Community Schools in 1957. She married Eldon Covington in August of 1960.   The couple farmed near Langworthy and she was the bookkeeper for Covington Electric.  They later divorced after 37 years of marriage.   Lois returned to school and got her AA Degree from Kirkwood and her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Criminal Justice and Sociology from Mount Mercy .  She had worked for Four Oaks in Monticello, the Iowa Men's Reformatory in Anamosa, Alternative Services in Cedar Rapids, the Monticello High School and ASAC, Heart of Iowa in Cedar Rapids until she retired in 2012.