Obituaries
2-4-03
Longview News-Journal


Jo Edwin Alexander 

Services for Joe Edwin Alexander will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, 
Feb. 5, 2003, at Parkway Baptist Church with pastors Jeff Roadcap 
and James Kirkland officiating. Entombment will follow in Rosewood 
Park Mausoleum. Arrangements are under the direction of Rader Funeral 
Home of Longview. 

Pallbearers will include Rick Gaston, TJ Kiraly, Adam Kiraly, Dennis 
Sanford, Dwain Hardin and Andie Stracener. 

Visitation is 6-8 p.m. today, Feb. 4, at the funeral home. Mr. 
Alexander passed away Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003, at a Tyler hospice care 
facility after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's. 

He was born in Whiteface on Jan. 20, 1934, to George Paul and Fannye 
Alexander. He trusted Jesus Christ as his savior and, during his 
teen years, was baptized at Port Caddo Baptist Church in Marshall. 
He had been a member of Parkway Baptist Church for more than 25 
years. 

He married Barbara Gayle Campbell on March 2, 1963, in Canyon. From 
there, they moved to the East Texas area and raised a family. They 
were together for almost 40 years. 

Mr. Alexander served with the U.S. Navy 1952-1955. After an 
honorable discharge, he moved back to Texas and began his lifelong 
career in the electrical trade. For nearly 50 years, he was a member 
of the IBEW, as a lineman/wireman. For the last 39 of those years, 
he was a member of the IBEW Local 324 in Longview. 

Mr. Alexander is survived by his wife, Barbara Gayle Alexander; two 
sons, Joe Michael Alexander of Dallas and Jeffrey Lynn Alexander and 
his wife, Jaclyn, of Longview; one daughter, Laurie Ann Gaston and 
her husband, Rick, of Hallsville; five grandsons, Jon, Adam and TJ 
Kiraly, all of Hallsville, Matthew Gaston of Hallsville and Josiah 
Alexander of Longview; one brother, Carnes Alexander of Longview; 
and four sisters, Doris Lee of Tyler, Dr. Janelle Sloane of Oklahoma 
City, Shirley Sivert of LaPlata, Mo., and Louise Renfro of 
Lordsburg, N.M. 

Memorials may be made to Greater Hospice of Texas Inpatient Facility 
Building Fund, P.O. Box 9725, Longview, TX 75608-9725. 
Those unable to attend may sign an online memorial book at 
www.raderfh.com.