ORONO — Waldo H. “Wally” Covell died peacefully on June 7 in Orono. Wally was born May 15, 1933, in Monmouth, the sixth child of Henry Tewksbury Covell and Eva Goodine Covell.

Wally attended Monmouth Academy and then Lewiston High School, where he played football for Mose Nanigan, winning a state championship in 1950. He graduated from Lewiston High School in 1951 and was a 1955 graduate of the University of Maine, earning varsity letters in both football and baseball. Wally was a member of the Phi Mu Delta fraternity and a member of the “M” Club. He earned his master’s degree in education from the University of Maine in 1965.

After marrying Janet Nancy Dexter of Auburn in 1955, Wally declined a contract to play for the Philadelphia Phillies to embark on his football and baseball coaching career at Bucksport High School. Wally would continue to have an athletic coaching career that would span seven decades. Wally was inducted into the Maine Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003.

Wally is survived by his daughter, Teddi-Jann and her husband, Donald Joseph, of Orono; daughter, Schari and her husband, Michael Roy, of Waterville; son, Brian and his wife, Sharon Cyr, of Tijuana, Mexico; and son, Daniel and his wife, Pamela Safford, of New Canaan, Conn. Wally is also survived by four grandchildren, Carolyn Lebeis and husband, Christopher, of Portland, Molly Roy of Spokane, Wash., Darren Casey-Covell of South Portland, and Sylvie Cyr Covell of Tijuana, Mexico; his great-granddaughter, Camille Janet Lebeis; and his sister-in-law, Elaine (Toop) Covell of Orono.

Wally was predeceased by his parents; his wife, Janet; his sisters, Muriel Wilson, Priscilla Onidi and Mildred E. Covell; and brothers, Robert Covell and Henry Covell Jr.