Prince A. Fant

Published 12:00 am Friday, August 5, 2005

Prince Albert Fant, 70, of Eads, Tenn., died Aug. 2, 2005, at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis, Tenn.

The Oakland native was employed by Warren Rural Electric, was a member of New Salem Missionary Baptist Church of Memphis and was a deacon. He was a son of the late Garland Fant and Pauline France Fant. He was preceded in death by a brother, Charles Ashley; a father-in-law, Roscoe Davidson; and by Joseph McDaniel, husband of Ella McDaniel of Bowling Green, sister-in-law.

Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Mount Union Missionary Baptist Church, where he was a member, with burial in Mount Union Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery in Smiths Grove. Visitation will be from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Burnam & Son Mortuary.

Survivors include his wife, JoAnn Davidson Fant; a daughter, Leslie Fant Johnson and her husband, Melvin E. Johnson Jr. of Eads; two granddaughters, Alexxas and McKenzie Johnson, both of Eads; a grandson, Melvin E. Johnson III of Eads; a brother, Kenneth Fant and his wife, Shirley, of Smiths Grove; two sisters, Ruth Price and Blanche Fant Fox, both of Bowling Green; a mother-in-law, Edna Davidson of Sunnyside; several nieces and nephews; three brothers-in-law, Robert L. Davidson and his wife, Dorothy, Thomas Davidson and his wife, Loretta, and Harlis Davidson and his wife, Thelma, all of Indianapolis; and three sisters-in-law, Helen Anthony and her husband, the Rev. Roy Anthony, and Ella McDaniel, all of Bowling Green, and Janice Simpson and her husband, Michael, of Detroit.