Benzie County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Knox, Alxender Boyd &  Donna Ray 
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Cemetery:           Benzonia Township Cemetery, MI.
Name:               Alxender Boyd &  Donna Ray Knox

Date Of Photograph: October 18, 2006
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Alxender Boyd Knox  b.Sept.25,1940 - d.Dec.19,2005
Donna Ray Knox  b. Feb.23, 1942 - d.
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Social Security Death Index 
Name: Alexander B. Knox 
SSN: XXX-XX-XXXX 
Last Residence: 49617  Beulah, Benzie, Michigan 
Born: 25 Sep 1940 - Died: 19 Dec 2005 
State (Year) SSN issued: South Dakota (1956)
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Traverse City Record Eagle - Dec. 21, 2005 
Alexander "Alex" Boyd Knox VI - Died December 19, 2005
BEULAH - Alexander Boyd Knox VI, 65, passed away Monday, Dec. 19, 2005, after a 
battle with cancer. He was born Sept. 25, 1940, in Sioux Falls, S. D., to A. 
Boyd Knox and Beverly Blanche Barnhart Knox. He married Donna Ray (Link) Knox 
on Feb. 11, 1963, in Anaheim, Calif.
Alexander grew up in Salem, S. D., and graduated from Salem High School in 
1958. He graduated from the University of South Dakota in 1966, then from the 
University of Wisconsin Graduate School of banking.
He served in the United States Army for three years and was discharged in 1964. 
Alex was a banker for 18 years and served as president of McCook County 
National Bank. He and his wife, Donna, owned the Accounting & Financial 
Services in Beulah until his retirement in June of 2005. 
He was active throughout his life in his community, teaching real estate 
finance at Antelope Valley College. He was president of Rotary in Placentia, 
Calif., was a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity and various Chamber of 
Commerce Boards, was a Boy Scouts Finance Chair and belonged to various other 
community organizations.
In Beulah, he was Benzie County Commissioner for 11 years and state vice 
president of the Independent Accountant Association of Michigan. He belonged to 
the Masonic Lodge, the Order of Eastern Star in Traverse City and the Beulah 
Economic Development Boards, Crystal Lake Kiwanis treasurer, various other 
community boards and was a Shriner. He was a member of The First Congregational 
Church UUC Benzonia.
Surviving family includes his loving wife of 42 years, Donna Ray; sons, 
Alexander (LynnZee) Boyd VII of LaCrosse, Wis., Ray Walter of Beulah; daughter, 
Ann Marie (Mike) Gilmour of Canton; four grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; 
sisters, Kay (Chuck) Gough of Big Fork, Mont., Gina Holzman of Pasadena, 
Calif.; brother, David (Patty) Knox of Houston; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Visitation will take place today, Dec. 21, 2005, from 5 to 8 p.m., at the 
Benzonia Chapel of McElduff-Jowett Funeral Home, 7223 South Street, Benzonia. 
Funeral services will be Thursday, Dec. 22, at 2 p.m., at the First 
Congregational Church UUC, 900 Barber St., Benzonia, MI, with the Rev. Steve 
Davidson officiating. Interment will be in the Benzonia Township Cemetery. 
Memorial donations are being accepted for the Alex B. Knox Memorial Scholarship 
Fund, c/o Ann Marie Gilmour, 7167 Oakleaf Court, Canton, MI or to the First 
Congregational Church. 
The Benzonia Chapel of McElduff-Jowett Funeral Homes & Cremation Service is 
handling the arrangements. 
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