JACK LEE ALEXANDER

JACK LEE ALEXANDER Cottonwood Falls Dateline Jack L. Alexander, 64, died Monday, February 4, 2008, at Newman Regional Health in Emporia. A celebration of life service will be held Friday, February 8, 2008, at 11:00 A.M., at the First Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. in Cottonwood Falls with The Rev. Pat Ireland officiating. Interment will follow in Elmdale Cemetery with military honors by a Navy honor guard. The son of William Elgin and Betty Rinehart Alexander, Jack Lee was born June 5, 1943, in Brookfield, Missouri. His family lived on a farm near Linneus, MO. where he went to a one-room schoolhouse. They moved to Plattsburg until 1952 when they moved to Kansas City, KS. He graduated from Wyandotte High School in 1961 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He served at the naval hospital in Oakland, CA. in the Office of Decedent Affairs. Following his discharge, he attended both KU and Rockhurst College before returning to CA. where he attended and graduated from San Francisco College of Mortuary Science following his discharge from the Navy. In 1969, he returned to Kansas and worked as a mortician at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business from William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo. in 1971. He and Susan Rauscher were married June 6, 1970, in Goodland, Kansas. He worked at Fulton-Nickel Funeral Home in Kansas City, Kansas, Mt. Moriah Funeral Home in Kansas City, MO., and Parsons Funeral Home in 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, Chase County Chamber of Commerce, and the Zeredatha Masonic Lodge in Cottonwood Falls. He is survived by his wife of the home in Strong City; two sons: Aaron Mark Alexander of Park City, KS. and Brian Christopher Alexander of Emporia, KS.; daughter, Kathleen Diane Centlivre of Americus, KS.; a brother, Kenneth Alexander of Houston, TX.; and four grandchildren: Kaitlin Elizabeth Centlivre. Emily Diane Centlivre, Logan William Centlivre, and Andrew Brian Alexander. The family will meet friends at the First Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. Thursday from 6:30 until 7:30 P.M. Friends may call at the Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home Wednesday from 4:00 until 6:00 P.M. and Thursday, 9:00 A.M. until 4:00 P.M. Condolences may be sent to www.brown-bennett-alexander.com. Memorial contributions to the Jack L. Alexander Scholarship Fund or the Cottonwood Falls First Presbyterian Church may be sent in care of funeral home, 201 Cherry, Cottonwood Falls, KS. 66845.

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