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Criswell Funeral Home - Ada

815 E. Arlington

Ada, Oklahoma

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Oct. 3, 2025

9:00 a.m.

Criswell Funeral Home Chapel

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JOSHUA VANZANT Obituary

JOSHUA VANZANT 04/27/1988 - 09/22/2025 Services for Joshua Tyler VanZant, 37, of Tecumseh are 9 a.m. Friday, October 3, 2025, at Criswell Funeral Home Chapel. Bro. Clint Dawkins will officiate. Burial will follow at Lightning Ridge Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 4:30 - 7 p.m. on Thursday at Criswell Funeral Home. Joshua passed away Monday, September 22, 2025, at his home. He was born April 27, 1988, in Shawnee to Robert Clayton VanZant Sr. and Dawn Marie Meyers. On May 11, 2009, he married Ashley Nicole Marquand. He was a floor hand for St. Louis Well Service. Survivors include his wife, Ashley; son, Brennan Layton VanZant-Tatum of Ada; daughter, Rylii Skyy VanZant of Tecumseh; parents, Robert and Dawn VanZant of Tecumseh; brothers, Robert Clayton VanZant Jr. and wife Whitney of Hickory, Okla., and Ezekiel Alvin VanZant and wife Gaybriell Ann of Huntsville, Texas; paternal grandmother, Rose Marie VanZant of Ada; and maternal grandmother, Loretta Pearl Meyers-Vaughn of Tecumseh. He was preceded in death by his paternal grandfather, Arnold Lee VanZant, and maternal grandfather, Alvin Ray Meyers.

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Published by The Shawnee News-Star from Sep. 26 to Sep. 30, 2025.

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Funeral

9:00 a.m.

Criswell Funeral Home Chapel

815 E. Arlington, Ada, OK 74820

Oct

3

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Lightning Ridge Cemetery

OK

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815 E. Arlington, Ada, OK 74820

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