Eugenia Bernadine Bryant

Eugenia Bernadine (Kuhles) Bryant 82 of Amarillo died Thursday Nov. 2, 2006. Rosary will be said at 5:00 PM Sunday at Rector Funeral Home Osage Chapel. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10:00 AM Monday at Blessed Sacrament Church with Msgr. Harold Waldo officiating. Interment will be at Llano Cemetery. Arrangements are by Rector Funeral Home Osage Chapel 2800 S. Osage St. Amarillo, Texas. Mrs. Bryant was born in Horstel, Germany on July 17, 1924 to John William and Gertrude (Frische) Kuhles. Her family immigrated to Umbarger in May of 1928. She graduated from West Texas High School at Canyon in 1942 and attended Draughan's Business College. She married James H. (Jim or Shorty) Bryant on November 27, 1945. She and her husband started Shorty's Bear Safety Service in 1960. After her husband's death in 1965, Mrs. Bryant focused on raising their six children. She resumed her career as a secretary at Blessed Sacrament Church and retired from Amarillo High School in 1981. After her retirement, she spent time enjoying her family, doing the banking for Shorty's Bear Safety Service, crocheting and reading. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a son-in-law; Price Hargrove, a sister; Gisela Kuhles and a brother; Karlchen Kuhles Survivors include 4 daughters; Audrey Hargrove of Centennial, CO, Kathleen Blake and her husband George of Amarillo, Linda Bryant and her fianc Harold Finkel of Plano and Gail McVicker of Lubbock, 2 sons; Jim Bryant and his wife Connie and Danny Bryant and his wife Trish all of Amarillo, 2 sisters; Liz Daniels of Jackson, MS and Ida Neusch and her husband Arnold of Amarillo, 5 grandchildren; Heather Shiplet, Tamara Bell, Ryan Blake, Michael McVicker, Jake McVicker and a great grandson, Desmond Bell. The family suggests memorials be to Benedictine Mission House, P.O. Box 528, Schuvler, Nebraska 68661-0528 or Catholic Family Services 200 South Tyler, Amarillo TX 79101.