Beckham Co. OK - Obit for Elsie Alexander
   
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   Elsie  Alexander  was  born March 5, 1902 in Martha, OK to Harriet and
   Charlie  Stewart  and died Sunday, April 28, 1997 in the Erick Nursing
   Center at the age of 95.
   Services  were  held 2:30 p.m., Monday at the Sweetwater First Baptist
   Church  officiated  by  Ray  Smart.  Interment will be in the Mulberry
   Cemetery,  Sweetwater,  Roger  Mills  County  under  the  direction of
   Fatheree-Albert Funeral Home.
   Elsie  moved  with  her  parents to the Meridian community and married
   Samuel Robert Alexander in Sweetwater in 1918. They made their home in
   the Meridian and Sweetwater communities where they farmed. Sam died in
   1955  and  Elsie  moved  to  Wheeler,  TX until 1975 when she moved to
   Amarillo, TX. In 1985 she moved to Erick to make her home.
   She was a member of the Amarillo, TX San Jacinto Baptist Church.
   She  was  preceded  in  death by her parents, husband, one son Raymond
   Dale  Alexander,  two sisters; one brother and one great granddaughter
   Lori Keathley.
   Survivors include; one daughter, Nelda and Rayford Bowers of Leveland,
   TX;  one  son, Truman and Maxine Alexander of Sweetwater; one brother,
   Neal  Stewart  of  College  Station,  TX; three sisters, Naomi York of
   College  Station,  TX; Elmerine Burnam of Elk City; and Mozelle France
   of  Amarillo,  TX;  11  grandchildren; 28 great grandchildren; 8 great
   great grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends.