J. Brent Hurd, age 87, passed away at his home in Lebanon on December 27, 2020.
Mr. Hurd was born in Nashville on July 19, 1933. He is preceded in death by his wife of 53 years, Barbara Jo Hurd; parents Brown Elliott Hurd and Susan Writesman Hurd; and a sister, Brownie Hurd Freeman.
Mr. Hurd graduated from Donelson High School in 1951. He served in the United States Army as a military policeman. Mr. Hurd graduated from The University of Tennessee Knoxville in 1958 with a degree in Agriculture Economics. Immediately upon graduation he married Barbara Jo Williams and started a 10-year stint managing a Grade A dairy farm. His next venture was spending 16 years with the largest real estate management company in the Southeast as CEO, overseeing 12,000 residential rental units and 300 employees. He founded Hurd Investment Properties, Inc. in 1981 and served the residential and commercial real estate management company as president for the next 9 years and as president of a large Nashvill