When Payton Holt Alexander was born on 17 December 1901, in Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, his father, David William Patten Alexander, was 34 and his mother, Nancy Caroline Holt, was 28. He married Bessie Hatton on 7 February 1929, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. They were the parents of 3 daughters. He lived in Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah for about 20 years. He died on 17 July 1967, in Provo, Utah, Utah at the age of 65, and was buried in his hometown.

Gunnison Educator Dies At 65 . GUNNISON, Sanpete County - Funeral services for Payton Holt Alexander, 65, retired Gunnison Valley High School athletic coach and principal, will be conducted Thursday at 1 p.m. in the Gunnison First Ward chapel. He died Monday in a Provo hospital of a heart ailment.

Athletic coach from 1929 to 1941, Mr. Alexander then served as principal of the school until his retirement in 1965. He had also been vocational director for the South Sanpete School District.

CIVIC LEADER. Mr. Alexander was a member of the Utah High School Activities Assn. board of directors, the Gunnison City Council, and was a past president of the Gunnison Lions Club.

He was an elder in the Gunnison First Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served as superintendent of the Gunnison Stake YMMIA.

A graduate of Brigham Young University, Mr. Alexander attended the University of Utah, Utah State University, and Columbia University.

He was born Dec. 17, 1901, in Spanish Fork, a son of David and Nancy Holt Alexander. He married Bessie Hatton Feb. 7, 1929, in the Salt Lake Temple.

SERVICES SET. Survivors include his widow; three daughters, Mrs. E. Byrd (Jewel) Bartholomew, Orem; Mrs. Darwin J. (Patsy) Harwood, Livermore, Calif.; Jo Anne Alexander, Salt Lake City; and seven grandchildren.

Also surviving are a brother and six sisters, M. D. Alexander, Spanish Fork; Mrs. Sarah A. Mendenhall, Provo; Mrs. Bert (Clella) Simmons, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Joe (LaRita) Colledge, Lehi; Mrs. Aaron (Anne) Harvey, Mrs. Ralph (Leona) Bailey, and LaRay Alexander, all of Blanding, San Juan County.

Friends may call at Jensen Mortuary, 28 E. 1st South, Gunnison, Wednesday evening from 7 until 9 p.m. and Thursday before the services. Burial will be in Spanish Fork Cemetery.

Transcribed from Deseret News - July 19, 1967
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