SIKESTON -- Funeral service for James Wesley Yant of Birch Tree will be held at 11 a.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. Gerald Hamlett and the Rev. Billie Butler will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery.
Yant, 57, died Monday, Jan. 5, 1998, at Birch View Nursing Center.
He was born April 25, 1940, at Sikeston, son of John Wesley and Mary Hamlett Yant.
Survivors include his mother of Sikeston; four brothers, Randy Yant of Bloomfield, Mark and Steve Yant of Sikeston, and David Yant of Fenton.
He was preceded in death by his father.
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