Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 3, at St. John’s United Methodist Church, 14th and Brady streets, Davenport. Visitation: 4-7 p.m. today at Weerts Funeral Home. Additional visitation is 10 a.m. until service Tuesday, at the church.

DAVENPORT, Iowa — Byron L. Chant, 80, of Davenport, died Saturday, May 31, 2008, at Trinity Pathway Hospice in Bettendorf.

Burial will be Wednesday, June 2, at Memorial Park Cemetery, Muscatine.

Memorials may be made to St. John’s United Methodist Church Foundation or the National Cancer Institute. Online condolences may be made at www.WeertsFH.com.

Mr. Chant was born in 1928 in Burlington, Iowa,  the son of Byron B. and Emma Chant. After serving in the U.S. Navy during WWII, he married Roberta “Bobbie” Weber on Nov. 19, 1950, in Muscatine. He worked in the personnel department of the Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Co. for 37 years, retiring in 1990.

He graduated from Muscatine High School in 1945, then served in the Navy as Seaman 2nd class. He graduated from the University of Iowa in 1950 obtaining a bachelor’s. He was very devoted to his family and took great interest in everyone’s lives.

He enjoyed reading, golf, R.C. airplanes, jazz music and playing his saxaphone. He learned to play the saxaphone at age 70, often playing with the CASI Band and the church symphony.

He is survied by his wife, Bobbie; a daughter, Julie Badger and husband, Steve, Cedar Rapids, a son, John Chant and wife, Kim, of Davenport; four grandchildren, Steve Badger and wife, Amanda; Lisa Nelson and husband, Chad; Tom Chant and Cpl Stacey Gamet and husband, Cpl Steven U.S.M.C.; four great-grandchildren, Skyler Bowers Nelson, Halle Nelson, Lucas Badger and Kelan Gamet; three step-grandchildren, Zachery Kern, D.C., Rachel Kern and Joseph Kern.

He was preceded in death by his parents and an infant sister, Bonnie.