Jane M. Alexander, Esquire, practiced law in Dillsburg right up until the time of her death.
Alexander, 90, of Dillsburg and York Springs, died May 6 at Harrisburg Hospital.
Alexander was a 1947 graduate of Dillsburg High School. She graduated from Dickinson College in 1951 and received her law degree from Dickinson School of law in 1954 and an advanced degree in 1973.
She opened her law practice in Dillsburg in 1955.
She was the widow of James McHale and P. Nelson Alexander.
Surviving are her children, P. Nixon Alexander and his wife, Peggy, of Raleigh, N.C.; Marstin L. Alexander and his wife, Bella, of Bluffton, S.C.; Lorinda M. Krause, and her husband, Carl, of Selinsgrove; her daughter-in-law, Bay Alexander of Dillsburg; her stepson, Denny McHale, and his wife, Debbie, of Dunnellon, Fla; 10 grandchildren, Heather Pierce, Amanda Stanley, M. Nathan Alexander, Alaric Krause, Euric Krause, Honoria Krause, Mitchell Alexander, Paul Alexander, Kyle Alexander and Alysia Alexander; 10 great-grandchildren; and her brother, George Lehmer, of Cherstertown, Md.
From her guest book:
- “My association with this gentle, bright lady goes back to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention in the 70s. She was the best to be found as a citizen and contributed much of her life to setting standards of excellence that we could do well to emulate. May she rest in peace.”
-- Eleanor Boggs Shoemaker
- “I worked with Jane on the William Everett Potter Scholarship for a senior at Northern. It is the largest scholarship a senior can earn. She was as sharp in my last visit with her as the first year we awarded it. She always told me the same story that President Carter could not accept that Pennsylvania named her (a woman) as assistant secretary of agriculture. She was Dillsburg.”
-- Dale Reeder
- “A true Dillsburg icon. She helped so many of us. I will never forget her.”
-- Gerry Schwille
- “Jane Alexander was an integral part of many circles, an accomplished woman who shared her knowledge and skills generously and without expectation of recognition or reciprocity. I knew Jane through the Federation of Women’s Clubs and the Democratic Party, and we will miss her unmistakable style and presence.”
-- Marcia Wilson
- “Miss Jane was a lady through and through. When I told my husband that Jane Alexander passed, he was puzzled until I said, ‘She was the lady around town that always wore a hat.’ She was class with a capital ‘C.’ We could all take a page from her book. She will be missed.”
-- Lori Goudzwaard
- “Such a loss to our community. Ms. Alexander was such a wonderful, smart, classy, beautiful lady. She will be greatly missed. Prayers to the family.”
-- Vickie and Doug Hardy
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