Paul Lott
Family Service Counselor, Cemetery Manager for Brownsville Memorial Gardens and Licensed Insurance Agent
Paul is a native of Brownsville. He and his wife, Jane, are active members of First Assembly of God Church. They have three children: Dana Hobock, Pete Lott, and Jeremy Arnold. Paul is also a member of the Carl Perkins Center Board of Directors, President-Elect for the Brownsville Exchange Club, and Ambassador for the Brownsville Chamber of Commerce. He is a twenty year veteran of the insurance industry, and is the Brownsville-Bells Funeral Homes’ licensed Preneed Counselor. Paul also handles sales for Brownsville Memorial Gardens and Mausoleum.
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Rex F. Bond
Senior Licensed Funeral Director & Embalmer
After beginning to work at the Brownsville-Bells Funeral Home in 1958, Rex decided the funeral industry would be his life long work. He attended and graduated from John A. Gupton School of Mortuary Science in Nashville, Tennessee where, in 1959, he became a licensed funeral director and embalmer. After the death of Fred T. Jones in 1979, he became owner and manager of Brownsville-Bells Funeral Home. Brownsville Memorial Gardens was purchased by Rex in the early eighties. In 1993 he sold all three businesses to a local family but continued to work and be associated with these businesses. A native of Brownsville, Rex is married to Harriet Kizer Bond; is a member of Evangelical Community Church; and has two children: Tina Bond and Lura Bond Alyea and her husband, David, and his daughter, Wendy.
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Kenny Ellington
Licensed Funeral Director
Kenny, a native of Brownsville, worked part-time for the Brownsville-Bells funeral Homes from 1986 – 1988 during his high school years, and returned full time in 2004 to make this his life work. Kenny obtained his Funeral Director’s license in December 2008. He makes Memorial DVD’s for our families, and helps Wendell with maintaining Brownsville Memorial Gardens, along with opening and closing graves, and graveside setups. He is married to Katherine Warren Ellington and they have three children, Kaitlyn, Matthew, and Camon Marie, and a Havanese dog, Buddy, and is a member of Zion Baptist Church.
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Silas Wilson
Licensed Funeral Director
Fred Jones asked Silas to come to work for him in 1954. Silas chose to accept the job at the funeral home instead of having to plow field for a living. After becoming a licensed funeral director in 1957, he has worked here full time for fourty-six years and continues to work part-time. He is married to Betty Gordon Wilson. They have two children, Stephen Dale Wilson and Sandra Jo Wilson Sinclair, three grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
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Wendell Bradford
Funeral Assistant
Wendell has worked at the Brownsville-Bells Funeral Home since 1965. He opens and closes graves and assists in cemetery management by helping maintain Brownsville Memorial Gardens. Wendell is married to Ann Conatzer Bradford; has two children: Wendy Timms and her husband, Bill, and Phillip Bradford and his wife, Leta; and two grandchildren: Andy Timms and Candy Timms.
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Thomas Callery
Funeral Assistant
Thomas Callery, a native of Haywood County, worked part-time for the Brownsville Funeral Home from 1955-1961 while attending Haywood High School and Union University in Jackson. Following service in the U.S. Army (1961-1964), he returned to Brownsville and entered the Insurance Business and again worked part-time at the Brownsville Funeral Home (1964-1969). Tom served on the staff of U.S. Senator Bill Brock (1970-1976) and after wards was appointed United States Marshal for the Western District of Tennessee retiring in 1994. He then served as Assistant Commissioner with the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation in Nashville until retirement in 2003. Tom is a member of Brownsville First Presbyterian Church, the Brownsville Exchange Club, the Brownsville/Haywood County Chamber of Commerce, and the Tennessee Conservation Commission. He is married to the former Barbara Marbury. They have two children, JoAnna Morris of Brownsville and John Calllery of Oxford, MS,and four grandchildren, Gray and Graham Morris of Brownsville and Porter and Miller Callery of Oxford.
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Judy Carol Blair
Office Manager
Judy Carol Blair was born in Bells, TN. Where she has resided most of her life. She is the 6th of 7 siblings born to Alvin Walker Hoppers and Eula Mae Jones Hoppers.
Judy was married to Gary Wayne Blair for 39 years. They had one child: Cynthia Carol Blair Watson who passed away in 1994 and one grandson: Jacob Todd Watson.
Judy is an active member of Holly Grove Baptist Church, Bells TN, where she served as Sunday school teacher for Youth and Adult classes. Judy serves on several committees including Youth chaperone, the cemetery committee and the kitchen committee. Judy has also been a volunteer for Birth Choice pregnancy crises center.
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