Funeral Services for Mrs. Jean Bryant will be held at 11:30am on Saturday, October 17, 2026, in the Chapel of Wade Funeral Home. Mrs. Bryant, age 92, passed away from this life on Sunday, October 11, 2026, at her residence in Collins. The Reverend Thomas Shields will officiate, and James Arrington Goff will perform a musical tribute. Interment will follow in the Collins City Cemetery.

Wade Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Pallbearers will be Chris Brister, Grayson Brister, Caleb Malone Bryant, Logan Berard, Landon Davis, Landon Harvey, Mark Leonard, and Alex Sanford. Honorary Pallbearers will be Ray Steele, David Brand, Denny Britt, and Clay Stephenson.

Bennie Jean Leonard Bryant was born on October 16, 1933, in Covington County to Wade Evon Leonard and Icy Frank Stewart Leonard. Mrs. Bryant was a graduate of the Mississippi School of Banking at The University of Mississippi and the Banking Institute at Louisiana State University. She had a long and distinguished career in banking, starting at the Bank of Mt. Olive, and later State Bank and Trust as well as Citizens Bank. Mrs. Bryant concluded her career as President of Priority One Bank in Collins. She was a longtime member of Collins Presbyterian Church, where she was formerly a Sunday School Teacher and Chair of Women of the Church.

She was welcomed into Heaven by her father and mother, Wade Evon Leonard and Icy Frank Stewart Leonard; her husband of 64 years, Malone Everett Bryant; her son, Danny Malone Bryant; and her 3 brothers, William "Bill" Garland Leonard, Samuel "Sam" Harlan Leonard, and Wade Evon "Joe Joe" Leonard, Jr.

Survivors include her daughter, Barbara Jean Brister of Collins; her son, Thomas Evon "Tommy" Bryant (Sandy) of Collins; her daughter-in-law, Katherine "Kathe" Bryant of Collins; 6 grandchildren, Chris Brister (Melissa), Danielle Bryant Berard (Logan), Bailey Jean Bryant, Steve Bryant (Kadie), Dusty Bryant (Candace), and Shannon Napier (Craig); 5 great-grandchildren, Landon Harvey (Abi), Alex Sanford, Grayson Brister, Landon Davis (Jayden), and Caleb Malone Bryant; as well as a host of other relatives and friends.

The family greatly treasures those who cared for Mrs. Bryant, including Betty Jo Parmer, Wanda Yates, Jill Rouse, Frances Keller, and Allison Hollingsworth.

The visitation will be from 9:30am until 11:30am on Saturday, October 17, 2026, at Wade Funeral Home, 401 Main Street in Collins.

In lieu of flowers, friends desiring to make memorials are asked to do so to the Collins Presbyterian Church at Post Office Box 463, Collins, MS 39428.