Terry Thompson
Licensed Funeral Director and Insurance Producer
General Manager
Terry is a graduate of North Side High School and West Tennessee Business College, both in nearby Jackson, Tennessee. She became a United Family Life Representative with an office in the Brownsville-Bells Funeral Home in 1988. Terry became a funeral home employee in 1989. In 2004 she became Business Manager of the Brownsville-Bells Funeral Home. Terry has three children: Jerry Leek and his wife, Melissa, Matthew Leek, and Casey Coatney and her husband, Michael Coatney; and four grandchildren: Myriam Leek, Navina Leek, Xane Coatney and Miah Coatney.
Elliot Simmons
Licensed Funeral Director, Embalmer, and Insurance Producer
Elliott is a Brownsville native and graduate of Haywood High School. After beginning to work at the Brownsville-Bells Funeral Home in 1999, he attended and graduated from Northwest Mississippi Community College with a degree in Mortuary Science. Elliott is married to Ashley Jackson Simmons.
Wendell Bradford
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.
Kenny Ellington
Funeral Director Assistant
Kenny, a native of Brownsville, worked part-time at the Brownsville-Bells Funeral Home from 1986-1988 during his high school years and returned in 2004. Kenny creates the Memorial DVDs for our families and assists Wendell with opening and closing the graves and cemetery management by helping maintain Brownsville Memorial Gardens. He is married to Katie Warren Ellington; has three children: Katie, Matthew and Camon Marie; serves as a Dixie Youth Girls Softball Coach; and is a member of Zion Baptist Church.
Rex F. Bond
Funeral Director
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. Rex returned full-time in 2004 as Funeral Services Manager and became one of the new owners when the business was sold in 2005. A native of Brownsville, Rex is married to Harriet Kizer Bond, our cemetery manager; 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.