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Leslie Stallings

Leslie Stallings

Mar 20, 2020

   James Leslie “Les” Stallings, 86, of 311 Westwood Drive, Suffolk, VA, passed away on Friday, March 20, 2020 in his home where he was being cared for by his wife and daughter.

   Mr. Stallings was born in Gates County, NC on October 17, 1933, was the son of the late Cam and Jessie Mae Taylor Stallings, the maternal grandson of...

Nathan Spencer Hollowell

Nathan Spencer Hollowell

Mar 19, 2020

   Nathan Spencer Hollowell, TSgt, US Air Force Retired, 92, of 10 Fort Island Road, Eure, NC, died Thursday, March 19, 2020 in his home.

   Mr. Hollowell was born in Beaufort County on July 31, 1927, and was the son of the late Grover Cleveland Hollowell and Sallie Swain Hollowell. Retired from the US Air Force after 20 years of service,...

Anda Jeanette Williams

Anda Jeanette Williams

Mar 18, 2020

   Anda Jeanette Williams, 70, of Walker Avenue, Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in her home.

   Born in Dare County, NC on December 4, 1949, she was the daughter of the late William Francis, Jr. and Ella Nora Dickerson Williams. A retired secretary, she was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in...

Rose Shaw Riddick

Rose Shaw Riddick

Mar 18, 2020

   Rose Ann Shaw Riddick, of 1077 Belvidere Road, Belvidere, NC, went to meet her Master on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 after a long battle with cancer.

   Born in Orange County on January 1, 1945, she was the daughter of the late Stephen Jerome Shaw and Madeline Rhodes Shaw Garner.

   A graduate of Meredith College in Raleigh, Rose taught school for...

Dale Gordon Hunter

Dale Gordon Hunter

Mar 18, 2020

     Dale Gordon Hunter, 73, of 579 Turnpike Road, Belvidere, NC, passed away Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in his home.

   Mr. Hunter was born in Pittsburgh, PA on July 15, 1946, and was the son of the late Gordon H. and Laverne Taylor Hunter.  A Navy veteran, he was a member of the special-purpose Underwater Demolition Teams during the Vietnam War. ...

Tommy Dail, Jr.

Tommy Dail, Jr.

Mar 17, 2020

   Thomas Dean "Tommy" Dail, Jr., 59, of South Mills, NC, passed away Tuesday, March 17, 2020, in his home.

   Born in Pasquotank County on April 10, 1960, he was the son of Carolyn Dozier Dail of South Mills and the late Thomas Dean Dail, Sr. A lifelong farmer, he had also been employed for several years with the U.S. Army...

Grady Woodfen Sumner, Jr.

Grady Woodfen Sumner, Jr.

Mar 15, 2020

   Grady Woodfen Sumner, Jr., 92, of 921 Liberty Street, Ahoskie, NC, died Sunday, March 15, 2020 in his home.

   Mr. Sumner was born in Hertford County on August 13, 1927, and was the son of the late Grady W., Sr. and Mary Gatling Sumner. A retired sales representative with North State Provision Company, he was a member of First Baptist...

Doris Lane Maillet

Doris Lane Maillet

Mar 15, 2020

   Doris Lane Maillet, 93, formerly of Weeksville Road, Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Sunday, March 15, 2020, in The Gates House, Gatesville.

   Mrs. Maillet was born in Perquimans County on December 2, 1926, and was the daughter of the late Jadie Robert and Alethia White Lane. A homemaker, she was a member of Hertford Pentecostal Church. In addition to her...

Patsy Humphlett White

Patsy Humphlett White

Mar 14, 2020

   Patsy Humphlett White, 78, of 2356 Delia Drive, Elizabeth City, NC, died Saturday, March 14, 2020 in Elizabeth City Health & Rehabilitation Center.

   Mrs. White was born in Pasquotank County on December 6, 1941, was the daughter of the late Walter Lee Humphlett, Sr. and Gladys Winslow Humphlett, and grew up with her brother in the Winfall community of Perquimans...

Evelyn Harrell Powell

Evelyn Harrell Powell

Mar 13, 2020

   Evelyn Jeanette Harrell Powell, 87, of Edenton, NC, died Friday, March 13, 2020 in Three Rivers Health & Rehabilitation, Windsor.

   Mrs. Powell was born in Norfolk, VA on October 8, 1932, and was the daughter of the late Kader Hoskins Harrell and Sabra Bertha Pritchett Harrell. Retired after 25 years of employment with the Edenton-Chowan Public School System, she was...

Gary Russell

Gary Russell

Mar 13, 2020

   Thomas Gary Russell, 70, of 132 Long Lane, Edenton, NC, died Friday, March 13, 2020 in his home.

   Gary was born in Pasquotank County on January 25, 1950, and was the son of the late Thomas Story Russell and Shirley Harrell Russell Cox.

   An Army veteran of the Vietnam War, he had worked with Jimbo Jumbos in Edenton and with...

Norma Davy Welsh

Norma Davy Welsh

Mar 13, 2020

   Norma Jean Davy Welsh, 86, of 228 Cowpen Neck Road, Edenton, NC, died Friday, March 13, 2020 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.

   Mrs. Welsh was born in Cumberland, Maryland on August 15, 1933, and was the daughter of the late Roy and Vernie Chaney Davy. She had been employed in clerical and bookkeeping work, most notably with the Farm Bureau...

JoAnn Tedrick Saylor

JoAnn Tedrick Saylor

Mar 12, 2020

   JoAnn Veda Tedrick Saylor, 87, of Ranch Drive, Elizabeth City, NC, died Thursday, March 12, 2020 in Citadel Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.

   Mrs. Saylor was born in Akron, Ohio on December 19, 1932. The daughter of the late Herman C. and Mary Wilson Tedrick, she was raised by her foster parents, Carl and Bert Nelson.

   A retired teller with Akron...

Charles James Spruill

Charles James Spruill

Mar 10, 2020

   Charles James "Charlie" Spruill, 71, of Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Tuesday, March 10, 2020, in Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, Chesapeake, VA.

   Mr. Spruill was born in Chowan County on August 3, 1948, and was the son of the late Leonce Q. and Mattie Lee Kennedy Spruill. Employed for over 20 years with Foreman's Building Supply, he later retired from...

Jean White Ennis

Jean White Ennis

Mar 8, 2020

   Jean White Ennis, 77, of 307 Topsail Plantation Drive, Hampstead, NC, died Sunday, March 8, 2020 in her home.

   Mrs. Ennis was born in Chowan County on September 5, 1942, and was the daughter of the late Jesse Wince White, Sr. and Minnie Bass White. She had worked for 10 years in Child Nutrition with the Edenton-Chowan School System and...

Edna Morris Matthews

Edna Morris Matthews

Mar 6, 2020

   Edna Rae Morris Matthews, 80, of 605 Morris Ford Road, Colerain, NC, passed away Friday, March 6, 2020, in Roanoke Landing Health and Rehabilitation Center, Plymouth.

   Mrs. Matthews was born in Bertie County on June 11, 1939, and was the daughter of the late Sebron C. and Foye Jernigan Morris. A retired self-employed farmer, she was a member of Mars...

Truman McDowell Greene

Truman McDowell Greene

Mar 6, 2020

   Truman McDowell Greene, a retired farmer, died March 6, 2020, at Northampton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Jackson, NC. He was 94 and a lifelong resident of the Eure community of Gates County.

   Truman was grateful for his long journey on this Earth. He treasured his Christian faith, his 68-year marriage to his wife, Lillian "Kitty," and his family. He...

Frances Vaughan Matchell

Frances Vaughan Matchell

Mar 4, 2020

   Frances Vaughan “Fran” Matchell, 74, of Paradise Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, March 4, 2020, in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.

   Mrs. Matchell was born in Bertie County on August 14, 1945, and was the daughter of the late Grady Lassie Vaughan and Selene Nowell “Big Mama” Vaughan. A homemaker, she was a member of Cape Colony Church of Christ.

   In...

Evelyn Williams Martin Luton

Evelyn Williams Martin Luton

Feb 26, 2020

   Evelyn Williams Martin Luton, 103, of Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Wednesday, February 26, 2020.

   A private service will be held. Miller & Van Essendelft, Funeral and Cremation Providers, 1125 Harvey Point Road, Hertford, is assisting the family with arrangements, and online condolences may be made by visiting www.millerfhc.com.

Tommy Williams

Tommy Williams

Feb 26, 2020

   Thomas Aaron "Tommy" Williams, 28, of Sailway Court, Hertford, NC, passed away Wednesday, February 26, 2020.

   Born in Baltimore, MD, on March 7, 1991, he was the son of Paul Ray, Jr. and Jennifer Robinson Williams. He was employed in residential construction and remodeling.

   Surviving in addition to his parents are his son, Gage Allen Williams and his mother, Krystina...

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