Thomas Eugene Bryant, Jr.

Thomas Eugene Bryant Jr, age 46, passed away at his home in DeFuniak Springs, FL, Thursday, May 4, 2006. He was a native of Fort Walton Beach, FL. A graduate of Fort Walton Beach High School, he was an auto mechanic by trade. He suffered from multiple sclerosis for the past several years.

Survivors are his wife, Korina Bryant, DeFuniak Springs; three sons, Shawn Dwayne Bryant and wife, Tina, of Fort Polk, LA, Randall Bryant and wife, Lyz, of Elmendorf, Alaska, Thomas E. Bryant III and wife, Vickie, of Lacross, WI; three great-grandchildren, two step-children, Rachel Payne and Jonathan Payne, both of DeFuniak Springs; father and mother, Thomas Eugene Bryant Sr and Shirley Deal Bryant, of Fort Walton Beach; sister, Donna Millner of Fort Walton Beach; nephew, Jamison Jackson of Dallas, GA; niece, Whitney Jackson of Fort Walton Beach.

Funeral services were held May 12, 2006, at Evans Funeral Home in Florala, AL, with Reverend Frank McIntosh officiating.

Interment followed in Paxton Cemetery.

[Source: The DeFuniak Springs Herald, May 18, 2006, Page 10-B]

[Burial: Paxton Cemetery, Paxton]