Dan Trant

Daniel “Dan” Trant passed away unexpectedly on Tuesday, March 1 ^st at his home in Plano, Texas.  His loving family and friends feel his loss deeply; but are comforted in the faith that he is now safe and well with God.

Dan was born in Dothan, Alabama on January 20, 1937, to Daniel Trant and Manette Kirkland Trant.  Dan grew up under the green thumb of his adoring maternal grandmother (Mother Kirk).

After graduating from Dothan High School in 1955, Dan attended Auburn University until 1957. It was during this period that Dan became a rabid, lifelong Auburn football and basketball fan.  Only a few days before Dan died, he was cheering his beloved Auburn basketball team to victory.  War Eagle!!

At twenty years old, in the middle of college, Dan joined the US Army in 1957, where he served until 1959, in SE Asia as a military advisor to the South Vietnamese Army, during the Vietnam War.

After his war service, Dan returned to Auburn University, where he graduated in 1961 with a BS degree in Business Administration.  He and Jean Warren married after graduation.  Their son Dany was born, and Dan adopted Jean’s two daughters from a previous marriage, Jennifer and Jeannie.

He first worked for Swift & Co. in sales and marketing and was the first person they hired straight out of college, unusual for that time.   In the mid-1960’s, Dan’s entrepreneurial temperament combined with his business training caused him to establish his own real estate sales and insurance firm in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

By 1969 Dan moved with his family to Southern California to pursue real estate opportunities and transitioned into mortgage banking.  He started his own mortgage banking company during this period, and grew it into four branches, from Newport Beach to San Francisco.

Moving to Florida in the mid-1990’s to continue his career in mortgage banking, Dan reconnected with his early education in horticulture and coupled that inherent love of gardening in yet another career shift starting a full scale nursery management and landscaping company.

Resettling in Houston Texas, Dan was a longtime parishioner of St. Thomas the Apostle Episcopal Church in Nassau Bay, Texas, where late in life; he met his beloved wife, Katie.  A loving father, grandfather, husband and friend, Dan is survived by his children Dany, Jennifer and Jeannie and grandchildren Michael, Katie, Tristan, Helena, Ashley, and Levi.   He is survived also by his stepson Paul Spray and his wife Jessica.

Other beloved family members and dear friends who will miss him greatly are:  Maggie and Derek Andersen, Missy and Jeff Speight (Wyatt, Owen and Henry), Kristen and Jimmy Webb (James), the Fadigan family, Orville Smith, Stephanie Spray and Joshua Lloyd, Bruce Phearse and Nina Johnston.  He is predeceased by his beloved sister Barbara Trant Fadigan.

There will be a funeral service Monday, March 7, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. at Allen Family Funeral Options with a visitation one hour prior to the service.  If you wish to join the service via webcast, please visit:

Pall bearers will be Ryan Collier, Michael Jenson, Joshua Lloyd, Bruce Phearse, Brandon Phearse and Paul Spray.

The family requests in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Arbor Day Foundation, www.arborday.org or Episcopal Relief & Development, www.episcoplarelief.org .

For those who cannot attend, the service will be Live Streamed and recorded for future viewing at: http://webcast.funeralvue.com/events/viewer/70377