Obituaries
9-25-03
Longview News-Journal


Frances Corban Alexander 
Gulf Prairie Cemetery, Freeport, TX

DAINGERFIELD - Graveside services for Frances Corban Alexander, 89, 
of Lone Star will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, 2003, at the 
Gulf Prairie Cemetery in Freeport with the Rev. Chris Volz 
officiating. Local arrangements are under the direction of 

Nail-Haggard Funeral Home in Daingerfield. 

Mrs. Alexander was born Sunday, May 24, 1914, in Mount Pleasant. She 
died Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2003, in Longview. 

After graduating from Tyler High School, she entered Texas Woman's 
University in Denton, receiving her degree in 1936. One month later, 
she married K.C. Alexander, and they moved to Pasadena. Eight years 
later, they moved back to Tyler. She was a teacher and taught second 
grade for 33 years. 

Mrs. Alexander was a member of the First United Methodist Church in 
Freeport and served in many areas of the church. She was a member of 
the Brazosport Retired Teachers Association, she had served as 
chairman of the hospitality committee at Brazosport Hospital and she 
had been a hostess at the Museum of Natural Science. 

Mrs. Alexander was preceded in death by her parents, Burrell and 
Lillie Huffman Corban, and three sisters, Ruth, Nelda and Dorothy. 
Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Earl C. and Billie 
Sue Alexander of Lone Star; two granddaughters, Jana Haynes and her 
husband, James, and Angie Allison, all of Lone Star; three 
great-grandchildren, James Loyd Haynes, Amber Sue Allison and Jamee 
Alexandra Haynes; and several other relatives.