Toy Ingram Tallant

Toy Ingram Tallant (February 28, 1949-January 20, 2011)



Toy Tallant was born in Forsyth County on February 28, 1949, to parents, Ingram and Ruby Dunson Tallant. Toy is a graduate of Forsyth County High School, Dekalb College, and Brenau College. He served in the US Army with one year of duty in Vietnam. Toy loved his family and church. He enjoyed traveling by car, ship, plane and bicycle with family and friends and has been in all 50 states. He had a great love for music. He was a deacon of Friendship Baptist Church. He also served as Choir Director for many years, church clerk, pianist, organist, and Sunday school Director and teacher. He retired from Lucent Technologies in 1999 after 30 years of service and taught computer classes at Lanier Technical College in Forsyth County for over nine years.



He was preceded in death by his parents, Ingram & Ruby Dunson Tallant; sisters and brother-in-law, Mildred & Dan McIver, Ruth McBrayer; brothers and sisters-in-law, Ray Hoover & Marion Tallant, Harold Tallant, Alford & Elaine Tallant, Jesse Henley Tallant; brother-in-law, W. T. Floyd; father-in-law, E. W. McConnell; all of Cumming.



Survivors include his wife of 41 years, Janice McConnell Tallant of Cumming; daughter and son-in-law, Leigh Anne & Doug Parson of Cumming; sister and brother-in-law, Betty & Lamar Wheeler of Cumming; brother and sister-in-law, George & Sue Tallant of Dawsonville; brother-in-law, Gene McBrayer of Cumming; mother-in-law, Reatha Sosebee McConnell of Cuming; sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Hazel & Nolan Floyd of Gainesville; special friend, Keith Petty of Talking Rock; many other relatives including aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins survive.



Services to be held Sunday at 3:00 pm at Friendship Baptist Church of Cumming, GA. Interment will follow in the Church cemetery. Reverends Ricky Byrd, Bud Sutton, Carter Payne to officiate. Special prayer by Rev. Travis Bridgeman. The family will receive friends at Ingram Funeral Home on Friday from 6:00 pm until 9:00 pm, Saturday from 9:00 am until 9:00 pm and Sunday from 9:00 am until time of service.



Memorial donations may be made to Friendship Baptist Church Family Life Center, P. O. Box 3180, Cumming, GA 30028, Prostate Cancer Foundation, http://www.pcf.org or Vietnam Veterans of America, http://vva.org/support.html.



Ingram Funeral Home & Crematory, Cumming, Georgia is in charge of arrangements.

Condolences may be made at www.ingramfuneralhome.com.