Submitted by: Richard Anderson
Baltimore Soldier Dies in Texas
Word has
been received here of the death at Big Springs, Texas, of Private Melvin V
Covell, 20, of 3101 Rueckert avenue.
Private Covell enlisted at the army recruiting station in Baltimore one year ago
and ws transferred to an army flying school at Midland, Texas. Three weeks
ago, he was sent to a school at Big Spring, where he died September 18, from an
accidentally inflicted wound.
Surving are his father, Joel Covell; two brothers, Oliver and Sergt. Wilburn
Covell; and three sisters, Eileen, Mrs Charlotte Phillips of Baltimore and Mrs
Eleanor Hunter of Washington. Burial will be in the Parkwood Cemetery.