(Veteran)

Died 17 May 1997

Burial in Blair Cemetery

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Cecil Brant, 81, of Blair died Saturday, May 17, 1997 at Memorial Community Hospital in Blair.

Services will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Campbell-Aman Funeral Home. Burial will be in the Blair Cemetery.

Brant was born April 22, 1916 at Upland, Nebr., to Nels and Christina (Petersen) Brant. He attended school in Minden, Nebr. In 1939, he moved to Blair. In December of 1941, he married Florence McCrady. On April 28, 1942, he entered the military and served in the Army during World War II. He was in the battles at Sicily, Naples-Foggia and the Rhineland. After his return from the service, he worked for the Jensen Well Company for 33 years.

Survivors are his wife, Florence; two sons and daughters-in-law, Marlin and Pam Brand, Westbrook, Me. and Rick and Betty Brant of Blair; a daughter and son-in-law, Barb and Roy Petitt, Miles City, Mont.; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren and one brother, Kenneth of Stockton, Calif.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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