Fred Walter Bryant, 65

DOVER - Fred Walter Bryant departed this life on Sunday, June 24, 2007, in Green Valley Nursing Home, Dover. He was 65.

Mr. Bryant was born on May 17, 1942, in Cordova, Md., son of the late Andrew Bryant and Anna Perry.

He received his education at Robert Moton High School, Easton, Md.

For the better part of his life he worked as a farmhand.

Mr. Bryant loved to fish and at every opportunity he went fishing. That was his one and only relaxing hobby.

He was preceded in death by his father, three brothers and two sisters.

He leaves to cherish his memory his mother, Anna Perry of Dover; four sons, Fred E. Bryant of Dover, Derrell Collins, Fred Collins, and Bruce Bryant, all of Maryland; a daughter, Desi Marie Bryant of Baltimore; a special friend, Bessie Wiggins of Dover; four sisters, Ina Sanders of Dover, Doris and Willie Thurman of Newark, Rosella Bryant of Dover, Sadie Forsythe of Star, Md.; a close friend, Abraham Ramos of Dover; an uncle, Charles Sr. and Lillian Jackson of Dover; an aunt, Rosella Jackson of West Palm Beach, Fla.; a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Services will be 1 p.m. Monday in Bennie Smith Funeral Home, 717 W. Division St., Dover, where friends may call three hours earlier.

Burial will be in Whatcoat Cemetery, Dover.