[NOTE: His name is thought to be William Lee Alexander;
her name is thought to be Dora Johnson Alexander]

Oklahoman Archives 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
October 4, 1938, pg 2

RITES ARE SET
TUESDAY FOR
PARTY LEADER

W. L. Alexander, 69, Dies At Pryor Office.

Services for W. L. Alexander, 69-year-old state political leader, will be conducted Tuesday at. 3 pm in the Street and Draper funeral home. by Rev. W. B. Harvey, pastor of the Trinity Baptist church. Burial will be in Fairlawn cemetery, where riles will be conducted by Masonic lodge No. 36.

Special services were held Monday at the Whitaker State Orphans' home, Pryor. where. Alexander was superintendent at time of his death. He died Sunday as result of a heart ailment.

Alexander had been identified prominently with the history of the state since 1889 when he made the run. His activities included two terms as county treasurer of Oklahoma county: manager of the campaign to move the capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City; delegate to the national Democratic convention in 1908. when William Jennings  Bryan was nominated; elected stale treasurer in 1014; candidate for governor in 1918; superintendent of the Northern Oklahoma hospital, Enid, from 1926 to 1930. and superintendent of the Pryor institution since October, 1935.

 

Oklahoman Archives 
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma
October 4, 1938, front page

WOMAN HEAD
OF ORPHANAGE

Dead Superintendent's Wife
Gets Pryor Post

Mrs. W. L. Alexander. wife of the superintendent of Whitaker State Orphans home at Pryor who died Sunday. will be named superintendent to succeed her husband, L. M. Nichols. chairman of the 'state board of affairs, said Monday.

Alexander. who has been superintendent [or nearly (our years. will be buried In Fairlawn cemetery Tuesday after funeral services here.

Alexander. a staunch Marland supporter in the governor‘s race four years ago. was named superintendent of the home soon after Marland became governor. During his illness the last few months Mrs. Alexander assisted in management of the home.

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