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==Background==
==Background==
Clyde Fant was a native of Linden in Cass County in east [[Texas]]. He was one of six children of Mr. and Mrs. John Preston Fant. John Fant was a cotton gin owner and a one-time Texas state representative. Clyde Fant graduated in 1925 from the former Marshall (Texas) College, now East Texas Baptist University. He taught school for a year in Blocker, a since abandoned community near Marshall in Harrison County. He then worked for a [[lumber]] company in East Texas and was thereafter associated with Southwestern Gas and Electric Company. He was an executive with Interstate Electric Company, with seven years of service with the firm, when he was transferred to Shreveport.<ref name=fantremembered>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Fant&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=11&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GSsr=41&GRid=41118253&df=all&|title=Our History: Early Image of Clyde Fant discovered|author=John Andrew Prime|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=March 30, 2015|accessdate=March 30, 2015}}</ref>
Clyde Fant was a native of Linden in Cass County in east [[Texas]]. He was one of six children of Mr. and Mrs. John Preston Fant. John Fant was a cotton gin owner and a one-time Texas state representative. Clyde Fant graduated in 1925 from the former Marshall (Texas) College, now East Texas Baptist University. He taught school for a year in Blocker, a since abandoned community near Marshall in Harrison County. He then worked for a [[lumber]] company in East Texas and was thereafter associated with Southwestern Gas and Electric Company. He was an executive with Interstate Electric Company, with seven years of service with the firm, when he was transferred to Shreveport.<ref name=fantremembered>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47475144/clyde-edward-fant
|title=Our History: Early Image of Clyde Fant discovered|author=John Andrew Prime|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''|date=March 30, 2015|accessdate=October 9, 2019}}</ref>
Fant was married to the former Margaret Moos (1909-2009); they had two sons, Clyde E. Fant, Jr., Doctor of Theology (born 1934), a [[Southern Baptist]] [[clergy]]man and author of the "Great Preaching" series, and John Frank Fant (born 1937), an [[attorney]] in Texas.<ref name=fantremembered/> Dr. Clyde Fant Jr., is a former pastor in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] and former professor of preaching at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary] in [[Fort Worth]], Texas. He is professor emeritus at Stetson University in DeLand in Volusia County, [[Florida]].
Fant was married to the former Margaret Moos (1909-2009); they had two sons, Clyde E. Fant, Jr., Doctor of Theology (born 1934), a [[Southern Baptist]] [[clergy]]man and author of the "Great Preaching" series, and John Frank Fant (born 1937), an [[attorney]] in Texas.<ref name=fantremembered/> Dr. Clyde Fant Jr., is a former pastor in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] and former professor of preaching at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary] in [[Fort Worth]], Texas. He is professor emeritus at Stetson University in DeLand in Volusia County, [[Florida]].