Juanita K. Alexander

Published 11:21 am Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Funeral services for Juanita K. Alexander are 2 p.m. on Tuesday, May 20, 2014, at Brookhaven Funeral Home, 894 Natchez Drive, with burial in Gum Grove Baptist Church Cemetery. Brookhaven Funeral Home, 894 Natchez Drive, is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation was Monday, May 19, 2014, from 5 until 9 p.m. at Brookhaven Funeral Home, 894 Natchez Drive.

Ms. Alexander, 72, died Saturday, May 17, 2014, at University Medical Center in Jackson. She was born on Nov. 27, 1941, in Eudora, Arkansas to Garland Knight and Aby NeSmith Knight.

She was a homemaker and a retired guard and prison worker at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana and she was a fulltime “Granny”. She was a member of Omega Baptist Church in Eudora, Arkansas.

Preceding her in death were her parents; four brothers; and four sisters.

Survivors are her one daughter, Nicky Case and husband, Jerry, of Brookhaven; one son, Johnny Knight and wife, Shannon, of Bogue Chitto; four grandchildren, Garlen Knight and wife, Carlie, Justin Knight and wife, Amber, Mitzi Case and Meagan Case; two step-grandchildren, Chezlee Tillman and Jessica Brown; four sisters, Hattie Bryan, Jean Cooper, Gladys Briggs and Sarah Jones.