Avis (MOREY) ALEXANDER

MOREY, ALEXANDER, SMITH, LEE, PRATT, BEATTY

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 6/26/2009 at 03:40:01

OBITUARY - ARVIS (MOREY) ALEXANDER
Funeral services for Avis ALEXANDER, age 95, of Gravity, who died Thursday, August 9, 2000 at the Montgomery County Hospital in Red Oak, Iowa, were held Saturday, August 12, at the Ritchie Funeral Home in Bedford with Pastor John CLARK officiating. Interment was held in the Washington Cemetery in Gravity. Memorials can be directed to the Stanton Care Center.

Avis ALEXANDER was born October 27, 1904 in Mount Ayr, Iowa, the daughter of Russell H. MOREY and Belle SMITH MOREY. Avis grew up in the Clearfield area graduating from the Clearfield High School in 1924, she then attended one year of Teacher College in Shenandoah. Avis taught school for a couple of years at a country school outside of Clearfield, returning home to help care for her family.

On December 6, 1935 she was united in marriage to Malvern ALEXANDER in Clearfield. After their marriage Avis and Malvern lived on a farm five miles northwest of Gravity. She moved into Gravity after her husband's death in 1973, living there until 1996 when she moved to the Stanton Care Facility.

Avis was a very active member of the Gravity Christian Church and was involved in various church circles and local clubs, including the P.T.A. She was a well-known supporter of her children's activities as they were growing up. She also enjoyed gardening, quilting, sewing, and canning the produce from her garden. Avis was an excellent baker who baked bread every other day! The couple enjoyed their life on the farm and she was known as a "true farmer's wife" to others. In 1947 when her husband and several of their children had polio, she ran the family farm while they were in the hospital.

Avis is survived by her four sons, Fred ALEXANDER and wife Diane of Etowah, Tenn; Roger ALEXANDER and wife Norma Jean of Haiti; Willis ALEXANDER and wife Joyce of Colorado Springs, Colo; and Lyle ALEXANDER and wife Judy of Gravity; two daughters, Carol LEE and husband Martin of Clive, Ia; and Lois PRATT and husband Tom of Red Oak, Ia; twenty-eight grandchildren and fifty-three great grandchildren.

Preceding Avis in death are her husband Malvern in 1973; her parents Russell and Belle; a son Charles; four brothers, Harry, Gene, Dwight, and Russell MOREY; and a sister, Bernice BEATTY.