Alecia was born May 13, 1976, to Albert and Nell Coward Whitehead. She was a member of Enon Baptist Church. Alecia was very goal-oriented and having set goals for herself she went about attaining them. She achieved both the Gold and Silver Levels in Girl Scouts, the highest honors offered by the Girl Scouts program. At the age of 17, she attended the Certified Nursing Assistant Program in Starkville, Mississippi, and began her working career as a CNA. Next, she earned her Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Basic certification, then she earned her Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) degree. While continuing to work full-time at sometimes more than one job at a time, she attended the Alabama Fire Academy in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to earn her EMT Paramedic degree. Later, she returned to school to complete the required course work to become a Registered Nurse (RN). Her final goal was to be a Flight Nurse, which she attained by becoming an international flight nurse. Alecia flew missions in 22 different countries earning awards for the lifesaving measures she performed to help her patients. Alecia loved to travel and enjoyed helping others so nursing was the perfect field of choice for her. She made many friends wherever she was working. Alecia enjoyed spending time with her family and she loved the beach.
Alecia is survived by her mother Nell Coward Whitehead and her brother Jonathan Whitehead and wife Anna Leigh all of Louisville. One of her greatest joys was being “Wee” to Alana Kathryn and Annalysa Kay Whitehead, whom she dearly loved. Wee’s girls were her whole world; while traveling as a nurse between assignments when she would come home, they would do whatever her “girls” wanted. She also leaves behind her maternal grandparents Olyn and Betty Jo Coward of Philadelphia, Mississippi. Alecia is preceded in death by her father Albert Whitehead, and her paternal grandparents William “Bill” and Bobbie Lee Whitehead.
Serving as pallbearers are Larry Fields, Jamie Flake, Shane McDaniel, John Clifton Pope, John White, and Jeffrey Yarbrough. Honorary pallbearers are all Emergency Medical Service (EMS) and medical personnel. Memorial contributions in honor of Alecia may be given to MS FFA Foundation, P. O. Box 1069, Raymond, MS 39154 or to Friends of Nanih Waiya Community Park, P. O. Box 83, Louisville, MS 39339.
Alecia is survived by her mother Nell Coward Whitehead and her brother Jonathan Whitehead and wife Anna Leigh all of Louisville. One of her greatest joys was being “Wee” to Alana Kathryn and Annalysa Kay Whitehead, whom she dearly loved. Wee’s girls were her whole world; while traveling as a nurse between assignments when she would come home, they would do whatever her “girls” wanted. She also leaves behind her maternal grandparents Olyn and Betty Jo Coward of Philadelphia, Mississippi. Alecia is preceded in death by her father Albert Whitehead, and her paternal grandparents William “Bill” and Bobbie Lee Whitehead.
Serving as pallbearers are Larry Fields, Jamie Flake, Shane McDaniel, John Clifton Pope, John White, and Jeffrey Yarbrough. Honorary pallbearers are all Emergency Medical Service (EMS) and medical personnel. Memorial contributions in honor of Alecia may be given to MS FFA Foundation, P. O. Box 1069, Raymond, MS 39154 or to Friends of Nanih Waiya Community Park, P. O. Box 83, Louisville, MS 39339.
