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Bryant, Emmett Phillips   214864
Birth: 11/03/1918    Death: 10/17/1988    Marriage: 10/04/1958
Cemetery: Presbyterian (NORTHEAST)
Record Source: The Paris News
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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/17/2025)

Notes

THE PARIS NEWS, Tuesday, October 18, 1988: "Emmett Phillips Bryant, MD, Rt.1, Arthur City, died Monday, Oct. 17, at 1:15 p.m. in Baylor Hospital, Dallas. Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home will conduct services at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, at the Powderly Baptist Church with the Rev. Alan Knuckles officiating. Burial will be in Presbyterian Cemetery at Chicota. The family will receive friends from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Bryant was born Nov. 3, 1918, in Crossett, Ark., a son of William Porter and Quince Phillips Bryant. He attended schools at El Dorado, Ark., Henderson State Teachers College in Arkadelphia, Ark. and the University of Arkansas Medical School in Little Rock, Ark. He married Carol Anderson in Hibbing, Minn., on Oct. 4 1958. He had practiced medicine in Arkansas, North Dakota and Minnesota before retiring in 1978 when he moved to Arthur City. He was a member of the Powderly Methodist Church and of its men's Sunday School class. He was also a member of the Arkansas Medical Society. Surviving are his wife; six daughters, Sarah Bryant-Bertail of Columbia, S.C., Mary Catherine Sparks of Minneapolis, Minn., Phyllis Jo Mlenar of Minneapolis, Kelly Bowyer of Arlington, Barbara Wallace of Arlington and Gail Price of San Antonio; two sons, John Paul Bryant of Cumberland, Wis., and Steven Philip Bryant of Paris; six grandchildren; his mother of El Dorado; and three sisters, Claire Whatley, Dottie Johnston and Ann Foster, all of El Dorado. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the leukemia foundation."

Tombstone is inscribed, "Lt. Commander, US Navy WW II, Korea, Vietnam, MD."

War Notes Rank

World War II, Korean War, VietNam Lt. Commander

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