Graveside service for Mrs. Edna Aline Wilson will be 11 a.m., Monday, January 11, 2021,
at Macedonia Baptist Church Cemetery.
Mrs. Wilson, 76, of Brookhaven, passed from this life January 6, 2021, at her residence.
She was born in Millport, Alabama August 11, 1944. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother,
and great grandmother. Mrs. Edna cared for her family and lived to be an example to all
the ones she loved. She had also retired as a Caregiver. She was faithful to the Lord and was
a member of Brookhaven Church of God. Her favorite pastime was having garage sales. She
will be greatly missed by all those who loved her.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Olen Edmond Bowman and Velma Lee Campbell Bowman
and her husband, Louis Eugene “Gene” Durr; brothers, Dennis Bowman, Joe Bowman, M.D. Bowman,
Retus Bowman; and sister, Annie Alexander.
Those left to cherish her memory are her husband, Americus Hobart Wilson; sons,
Kenneth Durr (Della), Mark Durr (Amy), Stanley Durr (Heather), and Jamie Durr (Janice);
daughter, Brenda Briknell; brothers, Clatus Bowman, Rayborn Bowman, R.B. Bowman, Ted Bowman,
Bully Bowman, and Kenneth Bowman; sisters, Jeanette Green, Inez Bowman, Ellette Bowman, Billie Jo Bownman;
nine grandchildren, Ashley, Hope, Charity, Kaitlin, Janelly, Andrew, Austin, Anthony (Hannah),
Aaron (Briteny); and nine great grandchildren as well as other loving family members and friends.
