From the Daily Mountain Eagle, November 12, 1981
Submitted by Willie L. Barton

Rev. Floyd Alvy Alexander, 79, of Jasper, died Wednesday, Nov 11, at Walker County Medical Center. Services will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Union Grove Baptist Church in Winston County with burial in the adjoining cemetery. Rev. Eldon Jacks will officiate with Kilgore Funeral Home directing. Parlor time will begin at 5:30 p.m. today. he will lie in state at his residence at 10 a.m. on Friday. He is sur- vived by his wife, Velma Alexander; two sons, D. W. Alexander and Jessie Alexander both of Birmingham; three daughters, Louise Hurst of California, Dorothy Haynes and Betty Sanders both of Jasper; two sisters, Emer Lee Bishop of Haleyville and Veatrice Guthrie of Double Springs; 23 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.