Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Chadwick Vann Copeland
Oct 13, 2019
Chadwick Vann Copeland, 49, of 2349 Virginia Road, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, October 13, 2019, as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Chad was born in Pitt County on August 4, 1970, and was the son of James Kenneth Copeland, Jr. and Constance Boyce Copeland of Edenton. Formerly employed with Albemarle Boats, he spent over 20 years...
Alvin Franklin Earley
Oct 11, 2019
Alvin Franklin Earley, 76, of Drummonds Point Road, Edenton, NC, died Friday, October 11, 2019, as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident.
Mr. Earley was born in Bertie County on June 21, 1943, and was the son of the late Charlie Franklin and Emma Belch Earley. Retired from Weyerhaeuser Corporation, he was a member of The Loyal...
Rodney Tuttle Harrell, Jr.
Oct 11, 2019
Rodney Tuttle Harrell, Jr., 90, of 602 E. Church Street Extended, Edenton, NC, died Friday, October 11, 2019, in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.
Mr. Harrell was born in Chowan County on March 5, 1929, one of four children born to the late Rodney T. Harrell, Sr. and Bessie Leary Harrell. Retired as a rural carrier with the Edenton...
Esther Grogan Cookman
Oct 10, 2019
Esther Grogan Cookman, 93, formerly of Dunn, NC, and more recently of 1926 NC Hwy 45 North, Colerain, NC, passed away on Thursday, October 10, 2019.
Mrs. Cookman was born in Washington, DC on September 3, 1926, and was the daughter of the late Emerson G. and Ruby Alley Grogan. A homemaker and pastor’s wife, she had served as the...
Peggy Taylor Pierce
Oct 10, 2019
Peggy Taylor Pierce, 73, of 196 Catherine Creek Road, Hobbsville, NC, died Thursday, October 10, 2019, in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, Virginia.
Mrs. Pierce was born in Suffolk on August 21, 1946 and was the daughter of the late Millard Richard Taylor, Sr. and Norene Umphlett Taylor. A retired Dietician with the Gates County Public School System, she was a...
Christine Odom Cabral
Oct 9, 2019
Christine Elizabeth Odom Cabral, 94, passed away Wednesday, October 9, 2019 in her son's home in Hertford, NC.
Born in Suffolk, VA on March 15, 1925, she was the daughter of the late Ira and Martha Lucy Nelms Odom and the widow of the late Edmund Rego Cabral. A cheerful individual who seldom met a stranger, she always loved to...
Thelma Lane Smith
Oct 7, 2019
Thelma Lane Smith, 101, of 520 Lake Road, Hertford, NC, passed away Monday, October 7, 2019, in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Mrs. Smith was born in Perquimans County on January 1, 1918, and was the daughter of the late John Martin and Martha Ann Alexander "Annie" Lane. A homemaker, she was a member of Victory Baptist Church in...
James Bradley Hall
Oct 3, 2019
James Bradley Hall, 78, of 110 West Academy Street, Colerain, NC, passed away Thursday, October 3, 2019 in his home.
Mr. Hall was born in Bertie County on February 19, 1941, and was the son of the late Jim and Mary Bradley Hall. A retired truck driver, he was a member of Sunbeam Baptist Church in Franklin, VA and attended...
Florence Darden Christensen
Oct 2, 2019
Florence Darden Christensen, 97, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, October 2, 2019 in her home in Hertford, NC.
Born on April 15, 1922 in Hertford, she was the daughter of the late Vivian Norfleet and Lanette Porter Darden. She is survived by her daughter, Lynn (Bob); her son, John (Susan); her daughter, Christine (Mike); her son, Robert (Judy); nine grandchildren,...
Mary Pierce Baker
Oct 2, 2019
Mary Lorine Pierce Baker, 70, of 2220 Virginia Road, Edenton, NC, died peacefully Wednesday, October 2, 2019, in the Palliative Care Suite of Vidant Chowan Hospital.
Mary was born in Hertford County on November 25, 1948, one of three daughters born to the late Frank Elliott Pierce and Louise Britt Pierce of the Sunbury Community in Gates County. She was...
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...
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