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Robert Alexander, Sr. | Visitation:
Thursday, November 20, 2008
5:00 PM until 7:00 PM
Martin-Mattice Funeral Home
Ruthven, IA
Service:
Friday, November 21, 2008
2:00 PM
Martin-Mattice Funeral Home
Ruthven, IA
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Robert E. Alexander, Sr.
November 30, 1931 ~ November 17, 2008
SERVICES
Martin-Mattice Funeral Home
Ruthven, Iowa
Friday, November 21, 2008, 2:00 P.M.
OFFICIANTS
Robert Alexander, Jr.
Joseph Alexander
CASKET BEARERS
Robert Alexander, Jr.
Joseph Alexander
Myron Wike
Jim Warren
David Weber
Kim Winiger
INTERMENT
Silver Lake Cemetery
Ayrshire, Iowa
Robert Eldon Alexander, Sr., was born November 30, 1931 in Greenville, Iowa, the eighth child of Harley and Maude (Ballah) Alexander. During his first year of life, he sustained a traumatic skull injury, but through the skill of caring doctors and a faithful family, Bob survived. He attended school in Spencer, Iowa, and was a proud Spencer Tiger graduate of the class of 1950. He was an avid fan of the Dodgers, the Lakers, and the Iowa Hawkeyes.
On June 6, 1959, he married Frances Warren of Royal, Iowa. To this union were born five children: Bob, Jr., Susan, Edward, Kristen, and Joseph. Edward and Kristen died not many days after birth and are now re-united with their father. Bob is survived by Frances, his wife of 49 years; Bob and Julie Alexander of Ruthven, Iowa; Joseph and Susan Alexander of Milton, Florida; and Myron and Susan Wike of Eldorado, Ohio, as well as ten beloved grandchildren: Nathan, Steven, and Kristin Wike, Megan and Sarah Alexander, and Daniel, Joanna, Andrew, Joy and Emily Alexander. He is also survived by his brother Allen Alexander and wife Verna of Bullhead City, Arizona, his brother-in-law George Weber of Ayrshire, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Out of Bob’s personal experience as a patient grew a great interest in the field of medicine, and he entered the medical profession in 1961 as a laboratory and x-ray technician, working at hospitals in Caney and Bucklin, Kansas. After moving to the Los Angeles area in 1966, he worked in research at Hyland Laboratories, Glendale, California. In 1969 he continued pursuing his dream of becoming a nurse and was one of the first men to graduate in that field from Los Angeles Pierce College in Woodland Hills. Although he worked in general care, emergency, coronary and intensive care units, his greatest love was the years he spent in hospice and home health care in Gold Beach, Oregon.
Bob came to faith in Christ as his Savior in his twenty seventh year, and that choice directed his life thereafter. One of his greatest joys, in the last ten years especially, was reading his King James Bible through from front to back every year. We know he is now in the presence of the living Word, Jesus Christ.
The family suggests memorial gifts be made to Hospice of Northwest Iowa, 1200 First Avenue East, Spencer, Iowa 51301-4321; to your local hospice; or to The Bible and Literature Missionary Foundation, 713 Cannon Blvd., Shelbyville, TN 37160.
Arrangements by Martin-Mattice Funeral Home
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