Notes:
Data source is Beth Arnold Taylor, E-mail ejat53@charter.net
Data source is Trudy Brooks, E-mail brookstj17@ fiberpipe.net
Rock Springs Daily Rocket-Miner, Jan 23, 1986
MARTHA J. KOVACH
Martha J. Kovach, 67, of 1325 Cottonwood Street in Rock Springs, died at 10:40 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22 at the Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County where she had been a patient for the past six days. A long-time resident of Rock Springs, Mrs. Kovach had been in ill health the past three years.
She was born in Sheridan County on March 26, 1918, the daughter of the late Bertram A. and Florence V. Mumma Brooks. She attended schools in Sheridan and graduated from high school there. She married Frank Kovach in Sheridan on Feb. 2, 1946.
Mrs. Kovach attended the university of Redlands, Calif. and the University of Wyoming, where she received bachelors and masters degrees in elementary education.
Mrs. Kovach taught schools in Ranchester, Monarch, the girls school in Sheridan, Reliance and Rock Springs.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church, the Order of the Eastern Star, the Retired Teachers Association, the Wyoming Education Association and the Young at Heart Senior Citizens Association.
Survivors include her husband, Frank of Rock Springs; her stepmother, Fannie M. Brooks of Tinley Park, Ill.; one son, Mark Kovach of Ellicott City, Md.; two daughters, Kathy Kovach and Mrs. Paul (Sally) Wonnacott, both of Rock Springs; one brother, Bert Brookes of Dayton; one sister, Jessie Reinhart of Rock Springs; one stepsister, Geraldine A. Lokane of Alsip, Ill.; one step-brother, James M. Cox of Buffalo; three grandchildren, Lauren Kovach of Ellicott City; Clint and Jeremiah Wonnacott, both of Rock Springs, and several nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, Mrs. Kovach was preceded in death by one brother who died in infancy.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 25 at the First Baptist Church. The Rev. H. Eugene Warren will officiate. Interment will be in the Paul J. Wataha Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral chapel, 154 Elk St. Friday afternoon and evening until 8:00 p.m. and Saturday morning at the First Baptist Church until time of funeral services.