Jeffrey Scott Conant

April 5, 1955 - June 30, 2009

A Memorial service honoring the life of Jeffrey Scott Conant, 54, of College Station, will be held at 12 p.m., Friday, July 3, 2009 at First United Methodist Church of Bryan, located at 506 E. 28th Street. Rev. Matt Idom will officiate. A private family burial will take place Friday morning at the historic Old Bethel Cemetery. Dr. Conant died Tuesday, June 30th at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan.

Jeffrey was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Howard Somers Conant and Florence Christina Conant. He was Department Head and Professor of Marketing at the Mays Business School at Texas A & M University. Since joining the university in 1986, Dr. Conant's passion for teaching earned him numerous awards. In 2004, Dr. Conant was designated a Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence, awarded to him by then president and now Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, and in 2005 he was designated the Eppright University Professor in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence. He has been recognized for his teaching excellence ever since his Ph. D. student days at Arizona State University and has been a prolific author of many award-winning professional articles in his field. Dr. Conant was a long-time member of First United Methodist Church of Bryan, serving on the Strategic Planning Committee and the Finance Committee. He was thrilled to have been able to accompany the youth group on mission and summer trips. His faith guided him, and his passions were his family, always there to cheer them on in whatever activity they were involved; volunteering to help coach his children's athletic teams, and his own personal mission of caring for each and every person to whom he became acquainted. He is preceded in death by his beloved mother.

Dr. Conant is survived by his wife, Carol Conant; his daughter and son-in-law, Danielle Christine and Reilly Garrett of El Paso; his sons, Scott Howard Conant and Trevor Robert Conant, both of College Station; his father, Howard Somers Conant of Tucson, Arizona; his sister and brother-in-law, Judith Conant-Steinbach and Gary Steinbach of Richmond, Kentucky; two nieces and four nephews along with a multitude of colleagues, students and friends.

Family members have requested that memorials be made in Jeffrey's name to First United Methodist Church in Bryan, 506 E. 28th Street, Bryan, Texas 77803, or donations can be made as a lasting legacy to the Jeffrey S. Conant Memorial Scholarship Fund at the Texas A&M Foundation, 4113 TAMU, 440 Wehner Bldg, College Station, TX 77843-4113 Attn: David Hicks.

Arrangements have been entrusted to Strickland Funeral Home in Somerville. We invite you to visit our website at www.stricklandfuneralhomes.com and sign the on-line register book.