Alva Cemetery, Woods County, Oklahoma

Alva – the funeral for Helen E. Alexander, 85, will be at 2 PM Friday in the Wharton Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Ron Pingelton, pastor of the First Christian Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Alva Municipal Cemetery.

Mrs. Alexander died Monday in an Alva nursing center. She was born December 2, 1902, in Alva, graduated from Alva high school and received her teacher's certificate from Northwestern State Teachers College. She taught music at Alton, Kansas, and received her bachelor's degree from Hayes State College in Hayes, Kansas, then taught music at Alva high school.

She and J. Henry Alexander were married November 30, 1930, at Alva. She was a member of the Alva First Christian Church and the Hopeton Home Circle.

She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Bill (Henrianna) Bailey of Stanton, Virginia; a son, Dr. Carl Alexander of Mound, Minnesota; a step – daughter, Mary Bloom of Enid; nine grandchildren and 13 great – grandchildren.

Memorials may be made to the Alva First Christian Church, either direct or through the funeral home.

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