Services for Irvin Emmit Grant, 90, of Buncombe will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Bailey Funeral Home in Vienna with the Rev. Jerry Huckleberry officiating. Burial with military rites will be in Busby Chapel Cemetery near Goreville.
  Mr. Grant died at 5 p.m. Thursday at his home.
  A native of Johnson County, he served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was employed as a nursing assistant at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Marion for 26 years before retiring in 1978.
  He was a member of Woodmen of the World and attended Pulley's Mill Pentecostal Church.
  Surviving are his wife, Helen Burnett Walker-Grant; one daughter, Marilyn Walls of Carterville; six sons, Vernon R. Grant of Alabaster, Ala., Paul Walker of Bourbonnais, Ronald Walker of Pekin, Irvin Leon Grant, James Grant and David Grant, all of Buncombe; one brother, Charles Grant of Jonesboro; two sisters, Edith Hennesey of Metropolis and Mildred Stewart of Stockton, Calif.; 25 grandchildren, several great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.
  He was preceded in death by his first wife, Jessie Evelyn Hacker Grant; two sons, Robert Walker and Gerald W. "Jerry" Walker; two brothers; and three sisters. His parents were John Wesley Grant and Lula Catherine (Merriman) Grant.
  Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
  Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the Heather Treat Memorial Fund, P.O. Box 98, Vienna, IL 62995; or Hospice of Southern Illinois, 1110 North Johnson, Marion, IL 62959-166

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