Alex Washington Sr. died Monday, April 4, 2011, at Promise Hospital. He was 85.

Mr. Washington was born in Fayette. He was a retired truck driver for Anderson-Tully Co. and was a member of Jackson Street M.B. Church.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Roosevelt Washington and Carrie Douglas Jones.

He is survived by his wife, Rubena K. Washington of Vicksburg; two sons, Major Anthony King of Tacoma, Wash., and Alex Washington Jr. of New Orleans; a daughter, Barbara Turner Walker of Vicksburg; a brother, O.D. Washington of Virginia; and grandchildren, nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives.

W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.