Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
David Harold "Smokey" Lane
Jul 13, 2019
David Harold "Smokey" Lane, 70, of 2209 Center Hill Hwy, Hertford, NC, passed away Saturday, July 13, 2019, in his home.
Mr. Lane was born in Portsmouth, VA on May 27, 1949, and was the son of the late Thomas Patrick Lane and Sarah Pearl Lane Townsend. He was a retired long-distance truck driver. In addition to his parents, he...
Carlton Ray Nixon
Jul 13, 2019
Carlton Ray Nixon, 94, of 200 Crestwood Lane, Edenton, NC, died Saturday, July 13, 2019, at Edenton Primetime Assisted Living.
Mr. Nixon was born in Chowan County on August 30, 1924, and was the last surviving of nine children born to the late Henry L. and Martha Rebecca Harrell Nixon. Retired from the North Carolina Marine Fisheries, he was a...
Bill Harrell
Jul 11, 2019
On July 11, 2019, William Carey Harrell, Jr., husband of Gloria Campbell Harrell, passed away suddenly at the age of 73 at his home in Woodhall Spa, England.
Bill was born on May 16, 1946 in Farmville, N.C. to Marie Smith Harrell and the late William Carey Harrell. A year later the family moved to Gatesville, where Bill grew up...
Franklin McKinley Moore
Jul 9, 2019
Franklin McKinley Moore, US Army Retired, 70, of 40 Home Port Lane, Gates, NC, died Tuesday, July 9, 2019, in Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital.
Mr. Moore was born in Wise County, Virginia on June 2, 1949, and was the son of the late Frank Leon and Anna Ruth Neely Moore. He had retired after 24 years of service in...
William Frank Bembridge, Jr.
Jul 9, 2019
William Frank “Junior” Bembridge, Jr., 71, of 144 Emperor Landing Road, Edenton, NC, died Tuesday, July 9, 2019, in his home.
Mr. Bembridge was born in Chowan County on June 23, 1948, and was the son of the late William F., Sr. and Virginia Smith Bembridge. The owner of Bembridge Roofing, he attended Edenton Church of God.
In addition to...
Frances Mallory Ohler
Jul 9, 2019
Frances Delayne Mallory Ohler, 85, of Hertford, NC, passed away Tuesday, July 9, 2019, in her home.
Mrs. Ohler was born in Jenkins, KY on October 21, 1933, and was the daughter of the late Gwyn "Windy" Mallory and Victoria Hazel Trail Mallory Plant. A homemaker, she volunteered with both the American Red Cross and with Meals on Wheels. In...
Harvey Eugene Morrow
Jul 9, 2019
Harvey Eugene Morrow, of 205 Wildcat Road, Edenton, NC, died Tuesday, July 9, 2019, in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.
Mr. Morrow was born in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, and was the son of the late Harvey Austin “Blackie” Morrow and Mary Jane Murdoff Morrow. He was a retired delivery driver in the lumber and building materials industry.
Surviving are his...
Judith Garlow Thurlow
Jul 9, 2019
Judith Arlene Garlow Thurlow, 77, formerly of East Palmyra, NY, and more recently of Hertford, NC, passed away Tuesday, July 9, 2019 in her home.
Mrs. Thurlow was born in Rochester, NY on December 23, 1941, and was the daughter of the late Richard Garlow and Mary Southworth Fitzpatrick. A retired registered nurse having worked most of her career in...
Margaret Austin Ledford
Jul 8, 2019
Margaret Marie Austin Ledford, 79, of 138 Oak Ridge, Hertford, NC, passed away Monday, July 8, 2019, in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.
Mrs. Ledford was born in Montgomery County, PA on July 22, 1939, and was the daughter of the late Irvin W. and Anna Kimber Johnson Austin. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her...
Catherine Jordan Markham
Jul 8, 2019
Mary Catherine Jordan Markham, 89, of 536 Lake Road, Hertford, NC, passed away Monday, July 8, 2019, in her home.
Born in Norfolk, VA on August 22, 1929, she was the daughter of the late James Elbert and Margaret Louise Ellis Jordan. A graduate of Perquimans County High School and later from Keyes Business College, she was a retired secretary...
Sallie Russell Lohman
Jul 6, 2019
Sallie Mae Russell Lohman, 95, of Cherry Lane, Chesapeake, VA, died Saturday, July 6, 2019, in Dominion Village at Chesapeake.
Mrs. Lohman was born in Gates County, NC on March 10, 1924, and was the daughter of the late Clyde Frank and Jennie Leigh Overman Russell. A retired supervisor after 35 years of employment with Norfolk Naval Shipyard, she was...
Renee Babcock Hahne
Jul 6, 2019
Renee Babcock Hahne, 89, of Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Saturday, July 6, 2019, in Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation.
Mrs. Hahne was born in Brooklyn, NY on January 5, 1930, and was the daughter of the late John Henry Babcock and Elsie Mae Chambers Badcock Petite. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her step-father,...
John Joseph Westen
Jul 5, 2019
John Joseph Westen, 92, of Wharf Landing, Edenton, NC, died Friday, July 5, 2019, in Three Rivers Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Windsor.
Mr. Westen was born in Lakewood, NJ, and was the son of the late John Martin and Madeleine Arneth Westen. The retired owner of W & A Express, a moving and storage company, he was a Navy veteran...
Scott Griffin
Jul 5, 2019
Frederick Scott Griffin, 61, of 1526-B West Queen Street, Edenton, NC, died Friday, July 5, 2019, in his home.
Scott was born in Chowan County on December 18, 1957, and was the son of the late Frederick H. and Lois Emminizer Griffin. An equipment operator with Jimbo Jumbo’s of Edenton, he was a member of Macedonia Baptist Church.
Surviving are...
Eleanor Stanley Bartley
Jul 3, 2019
Eleanor Stanley Bartley, 93, died Wednesday, July 3, 2019, in Elizabeth City Health & Rehabilitation Center.
Mrs. Bartley was born in Fairmont, WV on October 13, 1925, and was the only child of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Stanley. Growing up she was the drum majorette in high school, and after school worked at Lillian’s Dress Shop (owned by...
Lois Brown Hofler
Jul 3, 2019
Lois Indiana Brown Hofler, 92, of Water Swamp Road, Sunbury, NC, died Wednesday, July 3, 2019, in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, VA.
Mrs. Hofler was born in Gates County on October 5, 1926, and was the daughter of the late Bedford Horton Brown, Sr. and Marietta Spivey Brown. A graduate of Sunbury High School, she was the last surviving member...
Jessie Bass Bunch
Jul 2, 2019
Jessie Rea Bass Bunch, 95, of 519 Center Hill Road, Tyner, NC, died Tuesday, July 2, 2019 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton.
Mrs. Bunch was born in Chowan County on March 22, 1924, and was the daughter of the late John Thomas and Evie Pierce Bass. A retired seamstress from the former Don Juan Manufacturing Corporation, she was a member...
Randolph Bustamante, III
Jul 2, 2019
Randolph Bustamante, III, 68, of Rivers Retreat Way, Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Tuesday, July 2, 2019 in his home.
Mr. Bustamante was born in Norfolk, VA on June 1, 1951, and was the son of the late Randolph, Jr. and Mary Elizabeth Lancaster Bustamante.
Surviving are his four brothers, Eric Ewell, and Thomas, James, and Bobby Bustamante; and many...
Beth Ward
Jul 1, 2019
Melba Elizabeth “Beth” Ward, of Winton, NC, passed away on Monday, July 1, 2019, in Apex, the day before her 62nd birthday.
Beth was born and reared in Winton, the daughter of the late Harry Bartlett Ward, Jr. and Melba Askew Ward. A graduate of Murfreesboro High School, she attended Appalachian State University, and after college returned to Winton to...
Linwood Earl Pearce
Jun 27, 2019
Linwood Earl Pearce, US Army Retired, 81, of 1160 Willeyton Road, Gates, NC, died Thursday, June 27, 2019, in his home.
Mr. Pearce was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on February 4, 1938, and was the son of the late Herbert, Sr. and Florrie Ruth Holland Pearce. A retired Staff Sergeant with the United States Army, he served for over 20...
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