The husband-and-wife operators of a Thomasville monument business have pleaded guilty to theft charges after authorities said they took payment from grieving families for memorial markers and granite work that was never delivered.
Anthony Kirven Williams and Teresa Cobb Williams, who ran Williams Granite Memorial in Thomasville, entered guilty pleas as part of a case brought by Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall’s office. As part of the plea, the couple must pay more than $50,000 in restitution, structured so each identified victim receives full reimbursement for the memorial items they paid for but never received.
Teresa Williams pleaded guilty to five felony counts and two misdemeanor counts of theft. Anthony Williams pleaded guilty to nine misdemeanor counts of theft. The couple was arrested in August 2025 following an indictment from a Clarke County grand jury, the result of an investigation carried out jointly by the Thomasville Police Department and the Attorney General’s Consumer Interest Division.
Investigators later uncovered additional victims, leading to a second indictment against the couple covering further alleged theft cases beyond the original charges. The Clarke County District Attorney’s Office assisted prosecutors throughout the case.
Cases involving funeral and memorial businesses carry particular weight with prosecutors and consumer protection agencies, given that victims are typically dealing with the death of a loved one at the time they hand over payment — a dynamic authorities say makes this kind of theft especially damaging, even when the dollar amounts involved are, individually, relatively modest.