Our People

Brent Durbin, Owner/General Manager, has been in the funeral industry for over 30 years. He started his career in Tennessee and is a graduate of the Kentucky School of Mortuary Science in Louisville KY. He is a licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer in Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. Brent was raised in Shelbyville, TN and moved to Marshall County Alabama in 1977, in 2006 he moved to south Georgia to manage a large cemetery and funeral home and was a deputy coroner before returning to Marshall County, were he now calls home. He is married to Sue Templeton Durbin a native of Albertville and a graduate of Albertville High School. She is the daughter of Gwen Templeton and the late Doyle Templeton of Albertville. She has a sister, Ellen Templeton Carroll of Hoover, AL, two children Stacey Hutchinson of Rosswell, GA, Grant Corhern a student at the University of Alabama and a grandson, Wells Hutchinson in Rosswell, GA.

James M. Owens, Jr., Owner/Manager, has been in the funeral industry for over 39 years spending all of that time at Adams Funeral Home in Albertville as a licensed Funeral Director, before becoming a partner in Albertville Funeral Home of Albertville, LLC. He is a native of Hartselle Alabama and is married to Javon Osborn Owens of Albertville, whom was employed by Dr. Maury Bray for over 20 years before retiring. They have a one son, David Owens, of the Gospel group New Ground, and his wife Stacey of Harvest AL, and three grandchildren, Brandon, Chelsea and Celeste.

From left to right:

Dot Roe, Hostess
Ann Pointer, Hostess
Joyce Smith, Hostess
Dick Adams, Funeral Director
Donald Driver, Host and Associate Director
Bert Coe, Funeral Director, Preneed Director
Thomas Carroll, Associate Director, Monument Manager