This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ALEXANDER, RENNER, YOCHUM, RANSDELL, DAMERON, JONES, IRICK, HETHERITON, LOVELACE, KEITH Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gV.2ADEB/4097 Message Board Post: The Hannibal Courier-Post Newspaper - Friday, February 6, 1942 G. W. ALEXANDER DIES SUDDENLY ------- Funeral To Be Held Tomorrow ------- - George W. ALEXANDER, 1816 Patchen Street, died suddenly at his home at 2pm Thursday. He had been a resident of Hannibal for a number of years. - A native of Audrain County, Mr. Alexander was born near Vandalia December 15, 1873, a son of the late Joseph and Louise Martin ALEXANDER. He was married to Estella Pearl RENNER, in May 1897, who survives with their eight children. The children are: Mrs. Ina YOCHUM, Mrs. Mary Hazel RANSDELL, Mrs. Lillian DAMERON and Miss Helen ALEXANDER, all of Hannibal; Mrs. Myrtle JONES, Mrs. Mamie IRICK and Mrs. Georgia HETHERITON, all of St. Louis, and A. L. ALEXANDER, of New Franklin, Mo. - He is also survived by twenty-two grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Will LOVELACE, and Miss Margaret ALEXANDER of Middletown, Mo; one niece, Mrs. May KEITH, of Chicago, Ill., and a nephew, Ernest ALEXANDER of Hannibal. - Mr. ALEXANDER was a lifelong member of the Mt. Olivet Presbyterian Church near Vandalia. - The remains were removed to the James O'Donnell funeral home where funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Services will be in charge of Rev. Richard Golden.