Rev. Robert Young Gant

Rev. Robert Young Gant, an 80-year-old resident of Hardin, died on Sunday, July 25, 2004 at the Carrollton Care Center in Carrollton. He was a Methodist minister and ordained circuit rider for 29 years, serving 19 circuits and 27 churches in two districts, generally in northwest Missouri.

Rev. Robert Young Gant, an 80-year-old resident of Hardin, died on Sunday, July 25, 2004 at the Carrollton Care Center in Carrollton. He was a Methodist minister and ordained circuit rider for 29 years, serving 19 circuits and 27 churches in two districts, generally in northwest Missouri.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at the Hardin Methodist Church. Rev. Dick Curry and John Churchill will officiate. Burial will be in the Knoxville Cemetery.

A visitation will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at the Snow Funeral Home in Richmond.

Rev. Grant was born on April 4, 1924 in rural Ray County, the son of Robert Kelly and Katherine Hillyear Waller Gant. He was married on June 9, 1946 in Lexington to Azalia Teegarden, who survives him of the home.

Rev. Gant graduated in 1942 from Lawson High school and served three years in World War II in the Pacific Theater in support of a patrol torpedo boat with Squadron 24 in the Phillippines. He retired from the Missouri United Methodist Conference in 1989. He was a member-at-large of the American Legion.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by three sons, Lonnie E. Gant and his wife, Carolyn Sue, of Lawson, Robert Waller Gant and his wife, Charlotte, of Peachtree City, GA and Howard Dennis Gant and his wife, Nancy, of Hardin; one daughter, Sheila Ann Cain and her husband, William Robert, of Blythedale; one sister, Bradford L. Dana of Richmond; 11 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by four brothers, Waller Grimes Gant, Duncan George Gant, John Kelly Gant and Randolph Gant; and two granddaughters, Nicole Lea Bears and Shelia Gant.