During Tuesday evening’s Danville City Council Public Services Committee meeting, the recent passing of former Danville Police Chief Carl Alexander was mentioned. As current Deputy Chief Terry McCord recalled; Alexander grew up in the Danville and Champaign areas, served in our nation’s capital for a couple decades, and then came home to be Police Chief at the Danville VA Medical Center, before becoming Danville’s Police Chief from November of 1999, until his retirement in May of 2007.
AUDIO: He served time in the military, and was on the Washington, D.C. Metro Police Department. I think he served maybe 22 years, and he worked himself up to a captain. Once he retired from there, he came back to Danville; where he was the chief for the Veterans Administration. So he was the VA chief, from I want to say from ’92 to ’99, somewhere around there.
Deputy Chief McCord says visitation is scheduled for this Thursday, the 28th, in the Second Baptist Church at 940 North Franklin, from 3 PM to 7 PM. Funeral Services will then be at 10:30 AM Friday, followed by a procession to the Danville National Cemetery at the VA.
AUDIO: And then we’re going to escort him eastbound on Fairchild from Franklin, all the way out over the overpass, to Oregon Street to Main Street. And then we’ll go back west on Main to the east entrance of the VA. We’re going to take him into the VA to the burial spots.
Carl Alexander’s time as Police Chief included being Director of Public Services from 2004 to 2007, during the time that the Police and Fire Departments were both under that banner.
