Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Robert Gerald Sawyer
Oct 2, 2019
Robert Gerald Sawyer, 73, of 274 Body Road, Hertford, NC, died Wednesday, October 2, 2019 in his home.
Mr. Sawyer was born in Camden County on February 28, 1946, and was the son of the late Talmon Berry Sawyer and Rosalie Ballance Hardy. A retired truck driver with Quality Seafood, he was a member of Bak-N-Tyme Cruzers and enjoyed collecting...
Norene Lassiter Spivey
Sep 30, 2019
Norene Lassiter Spivey, 83, of 302 Zion Road, Sunbury, NC, died Monday, September 30, 2019, in Accordius Health & Rehabilitation Center, Gatesville.
Mrs. Spivey was born in Chowan County on February 15, 1936, and was the daughter of the late Walter V. “Jack” Lassiter and Elsie Hobbs Lassiter. A homemaker, she was a member of Cool Spring Baptist Church, had...
Buddy Glenn Lilley
Sep 28, 2019
Glenn Newman “Buddy Glenn” Lilley, Jr., 88, of 400 Lilley Lane, Gatesville, NC, died Saturday, September 28, 2019, in his home.
Mr. Lilley was born in Gates County on March 18, 1931, and was the son of the late Glenn N. Lilley, Sr. and Elma Barnes Lilley. An Army veteran and a graduate of North Carolina State University, he was...
Margaret Gable "Peggy" Baker
Sep 27, 2019
Margaret Gable “Peggy” Baker, 77, of 213 Pocahontas Trail, Edenton, NC, died Friday, September 27, 2019, in her home.
Mrs. Baker was born on April 3, 1942, in Columbia, Pennsylvania, and was the daughter of the late Gerald Charleston Gable and Margaret Ellen Warner Gable. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, James Jewell...
Todd Geddings
Sep 27, 2019
Michael Todd Geddings, 53, of 64 Sawyer Road, Gates, NC, passed away Friday, September 27, 2019, in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, VA.
Mr. Geddings was born in Wilmington on October 26, 1965, and was the son of Dixie Rambeau Manus of Gates and the late Roby Council Geddings. A fire system inspector and installer, he was employed with Johnson...
Cornelia Hare Perry
Sep 27, 2019
Cornelia Hare Perry, 97, of 110-B Wingfield Road, Tyner, NC, died Friday, September 27, 2019, at her daughter’s home.
Mrs. Perry was born in Chowan County on December 12, 1921, and was the daughter of the late David Richard and Mamie McClenney Hare. A homemaker, she was a faithful member of Ballard’s Bridge Baptist Church, its Nina-Aurelia Sunday School Class,...
Maxie Edward Lamb, Sr.
Sep 26, 2019
Maxie Edward Lamb, Sr., 84, of 810 Four Mile Desert Road, Hertford, NC, died Thursday, September 26, 2019, in his home where he was surrounded by his family.
Mr. Lamb was born in Perquimans County on October 7, 1934, and was the son of the late Louis Dempsey Lamb and Ellie Ferrell Lamb. A bulldozer/heavy equipment operator with Weyerhaeuser Corporation...
Inez Hughson Bunch
Sep 26, 2019
Inez Virginia Hughson Bunch, 90, of Paradise Road, Edenton, NC, and formerly of the Rocky Hock community, died Thursday, September 26, 2019, in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.
Mrs. Bunch was born in Bertie County on November 22, 1928, and was the daughter of the late James Herbert and Mary Sue Chamblee Hughson. Formerly employed with Layden’s Day Care...
Shirley Ann Mann
Sep 24, 2019
Shirley Ann Mann, 74, of 142 Chestnut Street, Hertford, NC, died Tuesday, September 24, 2019, in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.
Mrs. Mann was born in Syracuse, New York on May 4, 1945, and was the daughter of the late Herbert William Spraker and Alice Clara Lewis Spraker Forget. Retired from the Maintenance and Landscaping Depts. Of Ononadaga Lake Parks &...
Mary Louise Holt Shaw
Sep 23, 2019
The Lord came peacefully for Mary Louise Holt Shaw, 97, on Monday, September 23 at her home in Edenton, NC. She was born in Allen, NC on February 6, 1922 to H. J. and Lanora Ann McDonald Holt.
Louise met her late husband, Gordon Shaw, in Troy, NC. She was a faithful pastor’s wife, serving as a helpmate with her...
Vida Smith Hoskins
Sep 21, 2019
Vida Smith Hoskins, 86, of the Snug Harbor community of Hertford, NC, passed away Saturday, September 21, 2019, in Duke University Hospital, Durham.
Mrs. Hoskins was born in Pitt County on May 10, 1933, and was the daughter of the late Asa Earl and Velma Odell Haddock Smith. A homemaker, she was a member of Bethel Baptist Church, and had...
James Carlton Harrell
Sep 21, 2019
James Carlton Harrell, 50, of 1336 NC 137, Eure, NC, died Saturday, September 21, 2019 in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, VA.
Mr. Harrell was born in Hertford County on October 30, 1968, and was the son of Inda Marie Powell Harrell of Eure and the late James Melvin “Jimmy” Harrell. Employed as an automobile mechanic for many years, he was...
James Howard Pauley, Jr.
Sep 20, 2019
James Howard “Bubba” Pauley, Jr., 53, of Sunbury, NC, died Friday, September 20, 2019.
Born in Richmond, VA on August 21, 1966, he was the son of Dr. James Howard Pauley of Portsmouth, VA and Carol Donnelly Pauley of Virginia Beach, VA. A Measurement and Regulation Technician, he had been employed for many years with both Columbia Natural Gas in...
Andy Proctor
Sep 18, 2019
Anthony Judson “Andy” Proctor, Sr., 63, of 183 Levi Creecy Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, September 18, 2019, in his home.
Andy was born in Chowan County and was the son of Deedie Mae Jones Proctor of Hertford and the late E. J. Proctor, Jr. An LP delivery driver for Crossroads Fuel Service, he was a member of Yeopim Baptist...
Ernest Joe "John" Roberts
Sep 15, 2019
Ernest Joe "John" Roberts, 89, of 160 River Cove Lane, Hertford, NC, died Sunday, September 15, 2019, in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Edenton.
Mr. Roberts was born in Norfolk, Virginia on April 18, 1930, grew up in the Deep Creek community, and was the son of the late Merle Wilder Roberts and Willie Dell Robinson Roberts. Retiring in...
"Nancy" Anne Langhorne Mordecai
Sep 13, 2019
Anne Langhorne “Nancy” Wood Carson Mordecai, 92, of Raleigh and Edenton, NC, died on September 13, 2019, at her residence, in the former Edenton Cotton Mill of which her grandfather Julien Wood in 1898 had been an incorporator.
Born September 25, 1926, in Baltimore, to James Edward “Jim” Wood of Edenton and Anne Langhorne Kemp Wood, niece of Nancy Langhorne...
Richard Woodrow "Dick" Lowe
Sep 12, 2019
Richard Woodrow “Dick” Lowe, 81, of 907 Lakeview Drive in Clinton, NC, and formerly a longtime resident of Edenton, NC and Williamsburg, VA, died Thursday, September 12, 2019.
Mr. Lowe was born in Bertie County on August 28, 1938, and was the son of the late Deford Woodrow and Carrie Pearl “Polly” Manning Lowe. A retired farmer, he was raised...
Joseph Williams
Sep 11, 2019
After a long and productive life, Joseph Williams of Hertford, NC, passed away on September 11, 2019 while in Hospice Care at the age of 79. He leaves behind his partner of over 30 years, Ruth Mengel; his two daughters and their husbands, Jo Anne and John Wilkerson, and Jackie and John Lancaster; Ruth’s daughter Susan Revels; and a collective...
Sandra Piland Ward
Sep 11, 2019
Sandra Kay Piland Ward, 75, of 702 North Main Street, Winton, NC, died Wednesday, September 11, 2019, in Accordius Health at Creekside, Ahoskie.
Mrs. Ward was born in Bertie County on August 2, 1944, and was the daughter of the late J. Clinton and Lennie Leigh Jernigan Piland. A graduate of Troutman’s Beauty School in Raleigh, she had worked in...
Dorothy Saunders Layden
Sep 11, 2019
Dorothy Lois Saunders "Dot" Layden, 99, of Edenton, NC, passed away Wednesday, September 11, 2019, in Edenton House.
Mrs. Layden was born in Chowan County on January 30, 1920, and was one of eight children born to the late Octavius and Isabelle Twine Saunders. A retired waitress, she was employed with Boswell's Restaurant and prior to that with Colonial Motor...
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