Jeanette (Ginn) Alexander

Jeanette Joyce (Ginn) Alexander, age 92, of Louisville, Kentucky, formerly of Bedford, passed away on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 at Baptist Hospital East in Louisville. She was born June 16, 1933 in Bedford, the daughter of Carley E. and Faynola C. (Wallace) Ginn.

Mrs. Alexander was a graduate of Trimble County High School. She began her working career at the former Belknap Hardware Company in Louisville, served as the office administrator for Jeffersontown High School for twenty-eight years, and retired in 2006 after eight years as the office administrator for the former Buechel Metropolitan High School, all in Louisville.

She was a member of Jeffersontown Baptist Church, and enjoyed gardening, boating, cooking and baking for others, and her family and friends. She was an expert seamstress and had traveled to all fifty states.

Her surviving family includes one daughter and son-in-law, Jeanine and Joe Hatton of Louisville; one son, Kenneth Alexander of Louisville; one sister and brother-in-law, Judy and Ken Cottongim of Bedford; three brothers and sisters-in-law: Dallas and Shirley Ginn of Milton, Kentucky, Darrell and Karen Ginn of Madison, Indiana, and Jerry and Linda Ginn of Bedford; two sisters-in-law, Teresa Ginn and Shirl Ginn, both of Milton; three grandchildren: Jason Alexander of Louisville, Jillian and Luke Bergan of Avon Lake, Ohio, and Alex Hatton of Louisville; and four great grandchildren: Jackson, Gavin and Mia Alexander, all of Louisville, and Stella Jo Bergan of Avon Lake; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Kenneth G. Alexander on August 14, 2011, and to whom she was married on September 13, 1951 in New Albany, Indiana; five sisters: Wanda Woods, Mary Jo Cameron and her husband, Ralph, Faye Powell and her husband, Billy, Jessie Roderer and her husband, John, and Donetta Plank and her husband, Dennis; four brothers: Wilbur Ginn and his wives Sue and Mary Lou, David Ginn, Robert Ginn, and Carl “Bernie” Ginn; one brother-in-law, Phillip Burkhardt; one sister-in-law, Dorothy Cameron; three nephews: Donald Cameron, Terry Ginn and John Roderer; and two nieces: Connie Powell and Diane Young.

Aaron Snelling will officiate the funeral services.

Mrs. Alexander’s family would like to publicly thank Belmont Village in Louisville for their kindness and expert care of her for the past several years.