Alexander Andreevich Kondrat’yev

    Funeral services for Alexander Andreevich Kondrat’yev will be held today at 11 a.m. at River Falls Baptist Church with the Rev. Carl Douglas officiating. Burial with military honors will be in Buck Creek Cemetery following the services with Foreman Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

    Mr. Kondrat’yev, 24, of Red Level, died Thursday, June 3, 2010, in Meridian, Miss. He came to the United States with his family in August 1993. At the age of 20 days he was baptized in the Russian Orthodox Church and in 1995 he was saved and baptized in the Campus Church in Pensacola, Fla. He graduated from Red Level High School in May of 2004. While in high school he was enrolled in the Army National Guard. He attended Lurleen B. Wallace Community College where he earned an associate degree of science in May of 2006. He later attended and graduated from the University of West Alabama with a bachelor of science in psychology in May 2009. He had just finished his first year of graduate school at the same university this past May. Mr. Kondrat’yev had worked as a correction officer at the East Mississippi Correction Center in Meridian, Miss. and as a psychologist at Alliance Health Center, also in Meridian. His sudden tragic death broke his future plans to finish his master’s degree from the University of West Alabama, get a nursing degree and become a physician. He was an outstanding, tall, handsome, smart, talented, athletically gifted young man. His family and friends who knew him well will never forget him and will always miss him.

    Survivors include his parents, Andreiy I. and Oksana Kondrat’yev; brothers, Andreiy A. and Arlin Kondrat’yev; sisters, Anactacia, Anna, Melanie, Maria and Julia Kondrat’yev, all of Red Level; grandmother, Zinaida Bezrodnaya of Kiev, Ukraine; and his close friend and real love, Debbie L. Barnes of Meridian, Miss.

    Family and friends unable to attend may sign the online guest registry at www.foremanfuneralhome.com.