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From POST-BULLETIN, ROCHESTER, MN, Monday, March 10, 1997

Jeannette Helen Alexander - Rochester
The funeral for Jeannette Helen Alexander will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at Ranfranz Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Diane L Harvey officiating. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. Mrs. Alexander, 99, a longtime Rochester home-maker, died Saturday (March 8, 1997) at Samaritan Bethany Heights. Jeannette Helen Quick was born Aug. 18, 1897, in Clinton, Iowa, and attended Valparaiso University in Indiana. On Dec. 29, 1922, she married Roy J. Alexander in Valparaiso and they moved to Rochester from Iowa in 1936. Her husband was an architectural draftsman and managed Hayes-Lucas, Lumber Co. He died Sept 5, 1988 Mrs. Alexander was a member the Rochester Congregational Church,order of the Eastern Star and VFW Auxiliary. She was a amateur artist and a charter member of the Rochester Art Center. Survivors Include a son, Joseph of Rochester, four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. A daughter and a sister preceded her in death. Friends may call an hour before the service Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to Samaritan Bethany Foundation.

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From 3/12/97
50 years ago
R.J Alexander, Hayes-Lucas Lumber assistant manager, was the hero of the day when he pulled 5-year-old Patsy Harwick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harwick, and 4-year-old John Sibley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Sibley, from the icy waters of Silver Lake. The children had ventured onto the ice and broke through about 10 feet from shore.
from the files off the Past-Bulletin, compiled by the Olmsted County History Center. For information on the history center, call 282-9447

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