Funeral service for Linda Lou Alexander's life will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday October 16 ^th , 2021 at Cameron Baptist Church with Rev. Mike Teel, pastor officiating.

Arrangements are under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Linda Alexander, age 69, passed away Sunday October 3 ^rd , 2021, in Lawton Oklahoma. She was born January 22 ^nd , 1952, in Lawton to Frank and Billie Fern (Copeland) Alexander. Linda grew up in Lawton and graduated from Lawton Highschool in 1970. She was both the home coming queen and prom queen for the graduating class of 1970. Following graduation Linda continued her education at Cameron University and received a bachelor's degree in fine arts. She had also attended school at Texas A&M. She worked for Northrop Grumman at the beginning of her career in the marketing department. She later found her life's work at 27 in many positions within AT&T for a total of 43 years of service. She started in yellow pages in Oklahoma City and moved back to Lawton as a telephone operator to care for her late father. She later became a mainframe technician for installing cable and circuits within the central offices. Her final position ending in being a core network infrastructure engineer. She traveled across Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma to service the region and maintain critical networks of emergency services. She was still working at AT&T at the time of her passing.

She met Richard Allen Needham in 1986 and married in 1990. They had many wonderful times together both stateside and their journeys overseas. They had a beloved son, Nicholas Alexander, born in December 1988.

Linda's mother Billie began working at the age of 14 in 1941 until 1988 for Southwestern Bell Telephone/AT&T.  Billie's early life hardships growing up during the Dust Bowl and Great Depression had taught Linda hard work and fierce self-reliance. She embodied the definition of stability and safety. Linda followed in her career footsteps and attempt to live as the same symbol as her mother with love and compassion.

Linda is survived by her son Nicholas Alexander of Lawton, Oklahoma, and her nieces of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Heather Ann Jones, Wendy Alexander, Michelle Alexander, eight great nieces and nephews, Landon, Bradley, Kaydence, Whitley, Wrenna, Lynx, Zoe, Freya, and many cousins.

Linda was preceded in death by both her parents and a brother William W. Alexander.