Grace Marie Covington passed peacefully from this life the evening of Thursday October 31, 2024. She was surrounded and supported by her loving family and friends during the last moments of her life at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston Salem, NC at the age of 61. Grace Marie Covington was born August 16, 1963, to the late Lee Jones Covington and Grace Peguese in High Point, NC.

Grace Marie was a woman of many words and love not a face she come to meet that would not remember the name and phrase she would love to give " My name is Grace, but you can call me Marie". Grace loved to dance and sing she could cut a rug on the dance floor. There was not anything she wouldn't do for anyone. When meeting Grace Marie you would always know that name from the smile she would give and that Phrase she would always say. “Remember if nobody don’t love you Grace Marie love you."

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Jasper Covington.

Grace Marie Covington leaves to cherish her memory: her loving husband, Dwight McRae of the home; children, two sons, Jermaine L Covington of High Point NC, and James "Chris" Covington of High Point NC; one sister, Bernice Covington; three brothers, Roy Lee Covington, Rodney (Karen) Braddy, Micheal Anthony (Renee) Peguese; one granddaughter, Jasmine Dean Brown; best friend of many years, Regina Wilson and family of High Point NC; Lakesha Howze and Crystal Covington two of her four nieces; five nephews and a host of great nieces and nephews and other family and friends.

Funeral service will be held Friday, November 8, 2024 at 3:30 p.m. at Phillips Funeral Service Chapel. The family will receive friends at the chapel from 3:00 p.m. until 3:30 p.m.

Final arrangements are entrusted to Phillips Funeral Service Inc.