Decatur - Naomi Alexander went home to be with her Lord on Monday, January 24, 2011, at 6:20 am. She was born April 21, 1927, in Florence, Kansas, daughter of William and Marie (Harvey) Morrison. She moved to Decatur at age 3.
Services to celebrate Naomi’s life will be at 11:00 a.m. Thursday January 27, 2011 at Dawson & Wikoff Funeral Home, Mt. Zion. Burial will be in the Point Pleasant Cemetery, Long Creek. Visitation will be from 6:00 till 8:00 p.m. Wednesday evening at Dawson & Wikoff Funeral Home, Mt. Zion. Memorials may be made to Grace United Methodist Church. Messages of condolence may be sent to the family at www.dawson-wikoff.com.
She married Harley “Alex” Alexander Jr. her one and only true love on October 14, 1945.
She began her work career for Mississippi Valley Structural Steel Company in the office until their closing. She then went on to work in accounting for Illinois Powers Clinton Nuclear Power Station.
Naomi enjoyed, first and foremost, her family. She also enjoyed traveling, fishing, camping and boating but always with her husband and children. She carried on that tradition and shared those experiences with her grandchildren. Her great grandchildren were her pride and joy in her later years. After retirement she and her husband loved spending the winters in Texas and being with all their friends down there. She had been active in the Jaycetts having served as their past president. She was an avid reader and enjoyed oil painting.
She dearly loved and was loved by her family. Naomi instilled so many values in his children and grandchildren by the way she lived her life.
Naomi loved her Lord and in the end it was that faith and the love of her family that gave her strength and peace.
She leaves behind to mourn her death, but celebrate her life, her sons: Greg Alexander and wife Lynda, Kerry Alexander and his wife Nancy, daughter Gail Poundstone and husband Tim, Grandchildren Ryan Warnick Poundstone and his significant other Shelby, Heather Alexander, Laura Alexander Scott and husband Seth, Amber Alexander and Kimberly Alexander Essien and husband Anedi, step granddaughter: Kristin Waggoner and her husband James, as well as seven cherished great grandchildren and two step-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, son: Terry, grandson: Aaron Alexander and her two sisters.
