John J Bryant III

John J. Bryant III died on May 9th 2016 at age 94. John, who never married, will reunite with his Parents, Henry and Margaret Bryant, who preceded him in 1979 and 1998, and joins his older brother Henry, Jr. (Enrique) who preceded him in April of 2010, and his sister Mardi, who passed away in June of 2015. Remaining in this life are his younger brother, Charles Brate and youngest brother, Anthony Wayne both of Waukesha. John spent many years as an owner and director of Century Fence until he ultimately sold to his brother, Anthony. John attended high school at Columbia Military Academy in Columbia, Tennessee. He started college at the University of Wisconsin, Madison when World War II broke out. He then served in the U.S. Army in France for the balance of the war in the Signal Corps. Following the war’s conclusion, he briefly attended Cornell University in the College of Architecture. He started in Buffalo, New York with Curtiss Wright Aircraft Company but soon relocated to the Detroit area and worked for the Chrysler Corporation. In 1958, he moved to the Chicago area where he had several jobs before connecting with Chicago Bridge and Iron Co. Upon retiring he became the principal caregiver to his mother, Margaret, and lived with her, primarily in the winter months in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. At other times, he resided in his home in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. More recently he moved back to Delafield, Wisconsin where he shared a home with his nephew, Nathan Bryant and grand-nephew Caleb Bryant.