Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  PAUL SHERMAN McALEXANDER

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PAUL SHERMAN McALEXANDER

OCNS - August 31, 2000 - Paul Sherman McAlexander, 80, of Dewey, Oklahoma, 
passed away August 29, 2000, in the Jane Phillips Medical Center in 
Bartlesville.

He was born in Ottawa, Kansas January 24, 1920, the son of John Wesley and 
Ruby (Wompler) McAlexander. February 9, 1938, in Ottawa, he married Rosa 
Louise Cape, who survives at the home in Dewey.

Paul was an electrical lineman by trade and worked eighteen years for the 
City of Pawhuska (Oklahoma) Electric Department. He went on to work at the 
Red Rock Power Plant near Ponca City, Oklahoma, and the Glenn Rose, Texas, 
Power Plant before retiring and moving back to Dewey, Oklahoma, where they 
made their final home.

A devoted husband and father, Paul enjoyed hunting, fishing and camping 
with his family.

In the 1950's, as a hobby, he built and raced stock cars and spent many 
Saturday nights at the track in Coffeyville, Kansas, always with his wife 
and children until Rosa convinced him him that a man with seven kids 
needed to find a little safer hobby.

After that Paul and his son, Bill, spent many weekends hunting and fishing 
together and when his other son, Paul Wayne, was old enough, they started 
taking him with them.

Surviving, in addition to his wife, Rosa, are: two sons and daughters-in-
law, William Floyd and Ann McAlexander of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Paul Wayne 
and Roberta McAlexander, of Pawhuska; five daughters and sons-in-law, 
Neoma Fay Emel of Portland, Oregon, Karen Kay and Tom Bell of Oklahoma 
City, Sharon Ray and Lewis Huckaby of Oklahoma City, Linda Sue and Bill 
Evans of Copan, Oklahoma, and Nancy Louise Nelson of Tulsa; one sister, 
Leota Crowel of Tulsa; ten grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren.

Paul was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, five sisters 
and two grandsons, Richard Loyd Lott and Jason Michael Nelson.

Graveside services will be held Friday, September 1, at 2:00 p.m., in the 
Pawhuska City Cemetery with the Reverend Larry Wallace of the First Baptist 
Church in Pawhuska, officiating.

The Pawhuska Elks Lodge will host a luncheon for family and friends at 
11:00 a.m., Friday.

Johnson Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements.