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September 5, 1923 –  January 11, 2012  WHITESBORO â?? Funeral services for Leona Davis Tallant, 88, will be held Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. at the Meador Funeral Home Chapel in Whitesboro, Texas with Rev. Jerry Davis officiating. Interment will follow the service at Ryan Cemetery in Ryan, Oklahoma. Family visitation will be Friday, January 13, 2012 from 6 â?? 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
She passed away on January 11, 2012 in Whitesboro, Texas.

Leona Rebecca Tallant was born in Ft. Worth, Texas on September 5, 1923 to James Monroe and Maggie Mae (Perry) Davis. She married Abner Daniel Tallant, Jr. on May 1, 1948 at the North Side Baptist Church in Ft. Worth, Texas. She was a long-time member of the First Baptist Church in Collinsville, Texas. She loved music, classical and hymns. She enjoyed playing the piano and the guitar. She moved to Whitesboro in 1983.

She is survived by her husband, Dan Tallant, Jr. of Whitesboro, TX; her twin sister, Linda Mason of Arkansas; her grandchildren: Rebekah Tallant-Thompson and husband, Michael; James Daniel Tallant; Steven Jones; Regina Tallant-Butcher and husband, Travis; and Katy Tallant; five great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her son, Kenneth Dan Tallant; parents, James Davis and Maggie Godwin; sister, Lucille Godwin; two brothers, Howard Davis and James W. Davis.

The pallbearers will be James Tallant, Steven Jones, Jimmy Mason, Bobby Mason, Michael Thompson, and Donnie Mason.