Bessie Louise Hoag was born in Atwood, Oklahoma on January 7, 1922 to William Alva Hoag and Susie Virginia Scott Hoag. Her mother Susie died of complications of pregnancy when Louise was eight years old; actually the day after her eighth birthday. Louise and her father lived with her Grandfather and Grandmother Hoag in Oklahoma where Louise attended school, graduating from McAlester High School. At age sixteen she married George Walter Alexander. This was during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, which devastated much of Oklahoma. The Alexander family was able to continue to produce on their farm, but a doctor recommended that Grandmother Alexander move to a warm dry climate. They sold the farm and the extended Alexander family, Including Dub and Louise, immigrated to Hemit, California for work. Dub and Louise moved to Arizona living for forty years in Globe-Miami, where they raised their four children Julia Virginia, William Lee, Virgil Harold, and Kenneth Hal. Upon retirement they moved to Fort Lincoln Estates near Camp Verde where they lived the remainder of their lives. Louise died of cancer on November 4, 1993, just three months after her husband died.

Louise never took a college course, but she was well read, interested and knowledgeable in a wide range of subjects. She was an ardent collector of Indian artifacts and antiques, and loved restoring old porcelain dolls. She enjoyed gardening of both vegetables and flowers, and was an excellent cook. Her husband, children, and extended family were always the most important thing to her. She studied the Bible and believed in Christ very deeply, converted through her own studies. She enjoyed attending various churches, though she never joined a church until July of 1962 when she was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to which she was faithful the rest of her life.

She was a witty, intelligent, upbeat, and feisty lady, beloved of her family and many friends.