Elizabeth Munn Mumma and Edward Hall Covell

EDWARD HALL COVELL was born April 15, 1921 in El Dorado, Butler, Kansas,^{6578, 7377} and died November 22, 2013 in Towson, Baltimore, Maryland.⁶⁵⁷⁸ He is buried in Oxford Cemetery, Talbot County, Maryland.⁶⁵⁷⁸

He married ELIZABETH MUNN MUMMA on April 15, 1944 in Trinity Lutheran Church, Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland,^{5440, 5443} daughter of MILDRED FRANCES MUNN and DONALD CLEVELAND MUMMA. She was born November 1, 1920 in Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland,⁵⁴⁴⁰ and died August 8, 1993 in Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Virginia.⁵⁴⁴⁰

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Personal Information

• Edward Hall Covell and Elizabeth Munn Mumma were members of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Oxford, Talbot, Maryland. ^{6578, 5440}

Edward H. Covell

• was a member of the Christ Episcopal Church, Denton, Caroline, Maryland. ⁶⁵⁷⁸
• was a US Marines Veteran of World War II⁶⁵⁷⁸
• was a member of the Ducks Unlimited⁶⁵⁷⁸

Elizabeth M. Mumma

• was a member of the Wednesday & Thursday Morning Bowling Clubs⁵⁴⁴⁰
• was a member of the Memorial Hospital Junior Auxiliary⁵⁴⁴⁰

Education

Work History

Marriage Announcements and News

Morning Herald, April 17, 1944

MISS MUMMA AND MR. COVELL MARRY

Pretty Wedding Performed at Trinity Lutheran Church

Miss Elizabeth Munn Mumma, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Mumma, 1109 Hamilton boulevard, became the bride of Mr. Edward Hall Covell, Jr., son of Lt. and Mrs. E. Hall Covell, of Easton, Md., Saturday afternoon at 5:00 o'clock in a pretty ceremony at Trinity Lutheran Church. Rev. Wilson P. and Prof. Walter Westphal, church organist, played the nuptial music. White snapdragons and candles were used on the church altar.

Dressed in light blue sheer crepe with a white veiled hat, the bride carried an old fashioned bouquet. she was given in marriage by her father.

Her only attendant was Miss Phyllis Leiter wearing navy blue with white accessories and carrying an old fashioned bouquet.

Mr. William F. Mumma, brother of the bride, was best man and the ushers were Mr. Burton Davis, of Baltimore, and Mr. W. Fred Mowen, this city.

A corsage of gardenias was worn by the bride's mother on her light blue dress and the bridegroom's mother had a corsage of yellow rosebuds with her grey crepe dress.

Immediately following the ceremony a reception was held at the home of the bride's parents on Hamilton boulevard. During the evening the couple left for Baltimore where they have taken an apartment at 2222 North Charles street, where Mr. Covell is employed. They are both graduates of the University of Maryland.

Out-of-town guests were: Miss Marguerite Stem, Westminster; Mrs. Troth Kemp, Trapp; Mrs. William H. Fisher, Baltimore; Mrs. Effie Thomas, Mrs. G. Kear Hosket and daughter, Marjorie, Frostburg; Mr. and Mrs. Burton Davis, Baltimore; Mrs. Ralph I. Williams, College Park, and Mrs. S. A. Munn, Washington, D. C.

Obituaries

Star-Democrat, August 10, 1993⁵⁴⁴⁰

Betsy M. Covell

EASTON — Betsy M. Covell of Easton died Sunday, Aug. 8, 1998 at Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Va. She was 72.

Born Nov. 1, 1920 in Hagerstown, she was the son [sic] of the late Donald C. and Mildred Mumma.

A graduate of Hagerstown High School, she attended the University of Maryland, where she was president of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. She received a bachelor's degree in home economics in1942, then was employed by the U.S. government at Beltsville Research Center. She worked on the uses of vitamin A for night vision

In April 1944 she married Edward H. Covell Jr. They lived briefly in Baltimore and Denton. In 1964 they moved to Easton.

Mrs. Covell was a member of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Oxford, a member of the Junior Auxiliary at Memorial Hospital, and a volunteer with the Talbot County Chapter, American Red Cross. She also was a member of the Wednesday Morning Bowling League and the Thursday Morning League.

In addition to her husband, Mrs. Covell is survived by a daughter, Linda C. Riley of St. Michaels; two sons, Ned Covell of Salisbury and Ricky Covell of Easton; and one brother, William F. Mumma of Hagerstown.

Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 11 at Oxford Cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to Talbot Heart Fund, 605 Windmill Road, Easton, Md. 21601, or Talbot County Chapter, American Red Cross, 706 Idlewild Avenue, Easton, Md. 21601.

Arrangements are by Newman Funeral Home.

Baltimore Sun, November 28, 2013⁶⁵⁷⁸

Edward H. Covell Jr.

Broiler industry leader founded a farm supply business and was later named to the American Poultry Hall of Fame

Edward Hall Covell, Jr., a leader in Maryland's broiler industry who owned a farm supply business and was named to the Poultry Hall of Fame, died of pneumonia Friday at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson. The longtime Talbot County resident was 92.

He was born in Kansas while his father, Edward H. Covell Sr., an oil firm engineer and Army officer, was on assignment. His mother, Caroline Davenport Willis, had been a World War I Army nurse stationed in France.

He was a 1938 graduate of Centreville High School on the Eastern Shore, where he played soccer and basketball and set records running track.

"My father had wonderful memories of growing up in Centreville. Many of his childhood friends became his lifelong friends," said his daughter, Linda Reilly of St. Michaels. "Ed was an avid outdoorsman from an early age. He enjoyed spending many summers on the farm at East Bonfield in Oxford where his mother grew up."

He attended Goldey-Beacom College in Wilmington, Del. and the University of Maryland, College Park, where he studied agronomy. He left school to enlist in the Marine Corps during World War II.

On April 15, 1944, he married Elizabeth M. "Betsy" Mumma, a fellow University of Maryland student. She was a descendant of the owners of one of the Antietam Battlefield farms.

The couple resided in Baltimore when Mr. Covell worked at Southern States Cooperative.

After the war, he moved to Denton and began the Willis and Covell Co., a farm supply, feed, seed and grain business.

"He ran a mill and worked very hard," his daughter said.

He was its president until 1958 when the business merged with J. McKenny Willis and Sons.

In the late 1950s, Mr. Covell began his association with the Consumer Marketing Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He represented his industry in the creation of Poultry Product Inspections Act regulations.

Family members said that from 1958 to 1982, he served on the National Broiler Council Board and served three terms as chairman. During the John F. Kennedy administration, he was named to the National Broiler Advisory Committee.

In 1962, he merged his firm with other farm-related businesses in Easton, St. Michaels and Milford, Del., to form Bayshore Foods Inc. He was its president from 1969 to 1979, when it had become a subsidiary of the Tarrytown, N.Y.-based Kane-Miller Corp.

Through mergers, Mr. Covell became a Country Pride Foods Ltd. vice president and was manager of its Delmarva division. In 1980, he was named vice president of the ConAgra Foods Poultry Division.

"Ed was personable and easy to like," said former Maryland Gov. Harry Hughes, who was a friend from their days together in Denton. "He had a good personality and a good business sense."

In 1965, he was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the National Defense Executive Reserve to represent the Agriculture Department. His role was to consider the U.S. food situation following a nuclear attack.

Maryland Gov. Spiro T. Agnew named him chairman of the Commission in Maryland to Study the State Board of Agriculture. In 1969, President Richard M. Nixon named him vice chairman for Agriculture Production on the White House Conference for Food, Nutrition and Health. The panel studied what would become a national nutrition policy.

In 1982, Mr. Covell became semiretired and formed his own business, the Covell Co. He was a government and industry liaison and worked from an Easton office.

He spent six years as a director of the Baltimore branch of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.

Mr. Covell received numerous awards. He was named the 1966 Delmarva Distinguished Citizen. He received the Scofield Trophy for Leadership in Maryland's Poultry Industry.

He was named to the Poultry Hall of Fame in 1998. In 1999, he was recognized by the University of Maryland Alumni Association-College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and also for community leadership and contributions to the Centreville High School Alumni Association.

He was a director of the Wye Institute's Eastern Short Community Council. He traveled throughout Europe with People to People, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Department of Agriculture and the Feed Grains Council.

He was a past member of the vestry of Christ Episcopal Church in Denton and Holy Trinity Church in Oxford.

He belonged to Ducks Unlimited and was a founding committee member of the Waterfowl Festival.

Graveside services will be held at noon Saturday at the Oxford Cemetery in Oxford.

In addition to his daughter, survivors include his wife of 13 years, Joyce Quillin-Covell of Towson; two sons, Richard P. Covell of Easton and Edward "Ned" H. Covell III of Salisbury; a stepdaughter, Jill Baer of Towson; and two step-granddaughters. His wife of nearly 50 years, Elizabeth "Betsy" M. Covell, died in 1993.

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
April 4, 19305435	Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland	Donald Cleveland Mumma Mildred Frances Munn Elizabeth Munn Mumma William Franklin Mumma
April 18, 19405442	Hagerstown, Washington, Maryland	Donald Cleveland Mumma Mildred Frances Munn Elizabeth Munn Mumma William Franklin Mumma