Anita 'Daisy" B. Covey

April 19, 1926 - September 7, 2015

NORTH STRATFORD – Anita “Daisy” B. Covey, 89, of Hinman Heights in North Stratford, passed away on Monday morning, Sept. 7, 2015, at the Concord Hospital in Concord, NH, with members of her family by her side and after a long period of declining health. She was born in Bloomfield, Vt., on April 19, 1926, a daughter to the late Napoleon and Mabel (Dykens) Bergeron. Daisy attended the Bloomfield grammar school and was a graduate of Stratford High School in 1944. She later attended the Elliott Community Hospital nursing school in Keene, NH. For more than 50 years, Daisy was one of the north country’s most well-known registered nurses. She worked at the Coös County Hospital in West Stewartstown, at UCVH since the day it opened, and also as the Town of Stratford’s public health nurse and school nurse. Even well into her 80s, and past retirement, Daisy was still making house calls and checking on her friends and neighbors. She loved to sew, knit, read, and tend to her garden in the summer. She was a long-time member of the First Baptist Church, and was always an involved community member who will be missed dearly by her family and friends. She leaves behind her five children, Stanley Marshall and wife Sharon of North Stratford, Bradley Marshall and wife Helga of Trier, Germany, Lynda Paquette of Bloomfield, Donna Marshall of Whitefield, and Sandra Gray and husband Harold of Groveton; four step-children, Ernest Covey and wife Sherri of Pittsburg, Charles Covey, Jr., of Bedford, NH, Jacqueline Blakely and husband Larry of Pittsburg, and Kathryn French and husband Howard of Manchester, Conn.; 14 grandchildren and 13 step-grandchildren; 8 great-grandchildren and 10 step-great-grandchildren; and one great-great grandchild. She is predeceased by an infant son in 1954; her beloved husband and companion of 25 years, Charles ‘Jack’ Covey, Sr. in 2000; and a brother, Wallace Bergeron. Calling hours will be on Friday, Sept. 11, 2015, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Jenkins & Newman Funeral Home in Colebrook, NH. A funeral will follow the next morning, Sat., Sept. 12, at 11 a.m. at the First Baptist Church in North Stratford with Pastor Cindy Grassi officiating. Burial will immediately follow in the Baldwin Cemetery in North Stratford. Expressions of sympathy in memory of Mrs. Covey may be made to one’s choice of the First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 28, North Stratford, NH 03590; or to the newly established Anita Covey Memorial Scholarship, c/o Union Bank, 6 State St., Groveton, NH 03582. Condolences may be offered to the family by going to www.jenkinsnewman.com. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Jenkins & Newman Funeral Home, Colebrook, NH.