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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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Alexander, Jack Lee
Jack L. Alexander, 64, of Cottonwood Falls and owner of Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home in Cottonwood Falls, died Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, at Newman Regional Health.
Services will be held at the First Presbyterian Church in Cottonwood Falls on Friday, Feb. 8, at
11 a.m. There will be a viewing from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7. Friends may visit with the family from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
A complete obituary will appear later.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Feb. 7, 2008.
Jack L. Alexander, 64, of Strong City died Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, at Newman Regional Health in Emporia.
Jack Lee Alexander, the son of William Elgin and Betty Rinehart Alexander, was born June 5, 1943, at Brookfield, Mo. His family lived on a farm near Linneus, Mo., where he attended classes in a one-room schoolhouse. They moved to Plattsburg and, in 1952, to Kansas City, Kan., where he graduated from Wyandotte High School.
He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served in the Office of Decedent Affairs at a Naval hospital in Oakland, Calif. After his discharge, he attended both the University of Kansas and Rockhurst College before returning to California, where he graduated from the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science. He began work as a mortician at the University of Kansas Medical Center in 1969.
He married Susan Rauscher on June 6, 1970, at Goodland.
He graduated with a bachelor of science degree in business from William Jewel College in Liberty, Mo., in 1971. He worked at funeral homes in Kansas City, Kan., Kansas City, Mo., and Ellsworth before purchasing the Brown-Bennett Funeral Home in Cottonwood Falls in 1982. He was a member and elder of the First Presbyterian Church in Cottonwood Falls, the Kansas Funeral Directors Association, the National Funeral Directors Association, the Chase County Chamber of Commerce and the Zeredatha Masonic Lodge in Cottonwood Falls.
He is survived by his wife of the home; two sons, Brian Christopher Alexander of Emporia and Aaron Mark Alexander of Park City; a daughter, Kathleen Diane Centlivre of Americus; a brother, Kenneth Alexander of Houston; and four grand-children.
Services were held Friday, Feb. 8, at the First Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. with the Rev. Pat Ireland officiating. Burial was in Elmdale Cemetery with military honors by a U.S. Navy honor guard.
Memorial contributions to the Jack L. Alexander Scholarship Fund or the Cottonwood Falls First Presbyterian Church may be sent in care of the funeral home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845.
Messages to the family may be sent online to www.brown-bennett-alexander.com.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Feb. 14, 2008.
by your Chase County Host, Lorna Marvin.
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