Mary Louise Alexander

Alexander,
Mary Louise
SCHODACK - Mary Louise Alexander, 91, passed away, Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at Van Rensselaer Manor Nursing Home, after a long illness.
Mary Louise was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on February 25, 1933. She was the daughter of Dr. Edward M. Thorndike, and his wife, Julia Louise Harmon Thorndike.
On August 16, 1952, Mary Louise, a student at Wellesley College, married Warren G. Alexander, of Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., and transferred to Utah State University, where she finished her degree in mathematics as her husband finished his in Civil Engineering.
After college, her husband was employed in California a short time before being called to active duty in the army, requiring them to move to Virginia. Active service over, they moved back to N.Y., and bought a farm in Schodack, where they have lived until the present.
Mary Louise is the mother of six children, Mary Elisabeth Vooris, deceased, James Craig Alexander, DMD, Joanne Thorndike Stoddard, deceased, Candace Louise Alexander, Gail Thorndike Gormally, and Edward Warren Alexander, OD.
Mary Louise has 11 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren at the time of her death.
Interment of her remains will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Schodack. The date of interment and appropriate services are yet to be determined. It will be sometime in the spring.