Horace Bee Avant, Jr.

Mr. Horace Bee Avant, Jr., age 75, McDaniel Drive in Sandersville, died Friday, June 29, 2012. Funeral services will be held on Monday, July 2nd at 10:00 am at the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with burial in the Church Cemetery. Ministers Marlon Lastinger, John Forrester and Robert Cash will officiate. Pallbearers will be Ben Avant, Thomas Avant, Keaton Tapley, Travis Durden, John Claxton, Chris Covington, Nicholas Covington, and John Lavender. Honorary pallbearers will be the Deacons of Pleasant Grove and Workers for the Carpenters for Christ.

Mr. Avant was born in Washington County the son of the late Horace B. Avant, Sr. and the late Bertie Chambers Avant. Horace owned and operated H.B. Avant and Sons Construction Company for over 30 years and was also the owner and operator of Avant’s Radio City. He was an active member of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church where he served as a deacon and also served as a former Sunday School teacher, youth leader and worship leader. Mr. Avant was an active worker for the Carpenters for Christ and had lifelong love of farming. He is predeceased by a son Larry B. Avant.

Survivors are; his wife Elaine Tompkins Avant; sons, Ken (Kathy) Avant and Brian (Verina) Avant and daughter-in-law, Barbara Avant all of Sandersville; grandchildren, Rachel (Travis) Durden, Jennifer (John) Claxton, Ben (Wendy) Avant, Allena (Lee) Beal, Lawren Pagan, Michelle Shaw, Tara Avant, Thomas B. Avant, Zara Gillispie, and Keaton Tapley; 15 great- grandchildren; and his sister, Cherry Lavender of Milledgeville.

The family will be at the home of Rachel and Travis Durden, 821 East McCarty Street, Sandersville and they will receive friends on Sunday from 4 to 6pm at the May and Smith Funeral Home.

Donations may be made the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, c/o Ted Thompson, 7744 Linton Road, Sandersville, GA 31082 or to the Oconee Outreach, c/o Cynthia Maddox, P. O. Box 71, Sandersville, GA 31082.

May and Smith Funeral Directors is in charge of these arrangements.