Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Thomas Joseph Johnson
Jul 5, 2018
Thomas Joseph Johnson, 64, of Keough Street, Burlington, NC, passed away on Thursday, July 5, 2018, in his home.
Mr. Johnson was born in Portsmouth, VA, and was the son of the late Calvin Middleton and Helen Hennessey Johnson. Retired from Commercial Levin, he was a graduate of Elon College, and was raised in the fellowship of St....
Luther Gray Chesson
Jul 5, 2018
Luther Gray Chesson, 86, of 711 Pennsylvania Avenue, Hertford, NC, passed away on Thursday, July 5, 2018, in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton.
Mr. Chesson was born in Perquimans County on November 9, 1931, and was the son of the late Jesse Pyron and Martha Parker Chesson. A retired supervisor with George C. Moore Company, he was a member of...
Dorothy Boyce White
Jul 5, 2018
Dorothy Lee Boyce White, 84, of 1515 W. Queen Street, Edenton, NC, passed away on Thursday, July 5, 2018, in Vidant Chowan Hospital.
Mrs. White was born in Chowan County on December 19, 1933, and was the daughter of the late Charles Frank “Charlie” Boyce and Bessie Layton Boyce. The retired office manager of Western Gas, she was a...
Catherine Booker Nixon
Jul 4, 2018
Catherine Booker Nixon, 102, of Hertford, NC, died peacefully in her sleep at Brookdale of Elizabeth City on July 4, 2018.
She was born in 1915 in Little Rock, Arkansas, and was the daughter of the late Mary Hicks Booker and William Alfred Booker. She and her brother, the late Robert Alfred Booker, grew up in Jackson, Tennessee, where...
Estelle Branton Byrum
Jul 3, 2018
Estelle Elizabeth Branton Byrum, 102, formerly of Sunbury, NC, and more recently of Lake Prince Woods Retirement Community in Suffolk, VA, went to be with her Lord on Tuesday, July 3, 2018.
Mrs. Byrum was born in Gates County, NC on December 15, 1915, and was the daughter of the late Robert Francis and Mattie Collier Branton. At an...
Patty Street Hale
Jul 2, 2018
Patty Street Hale, 73, of Drum Hill Road, Corapeake, NC, passed from this earthly life to her heavenly home to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, July 2, 2018, following a brief illness. Mrs. Hale was born in Buchanan County, VA on November 4, 1944, and was the daughter of the late Floyd and Lona Blankenship Street. A...
Vivian Riddick Jones
Jul 2, 2018
Vivian Ward Riddick Jones, 86, formerly of New Hope Road, Hertford, NC, passed away Monday, July 2, 2018 in Brian Center Health and Rehabilitation. Mrs. Jones was born in Perquimans County on March 19, 1932, and was the daughter of the late Emory Judson, Sr. and Mary Ward Riddick. A retired seamstress, she grew up in the fellowship of...
Vera Johnson MacConnell
Jul 2, 2018
Vera Johnson MacConnell, 77, of Ainsley Road, Hertford, NC, passed away Monday, July 2, 2018 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville. Mrs. MacConnell was born in Perquimans County on January 7, 1941, and was the daughter of the late Charles Edward and Mary Lucille Broughton Johnson. A retired fifth grade teacher having taught in both public and private schools, she was...
Sharon Greene Futrell
Jul 2, 2018
Sharon Elizabeth Greene Futrell, 60, of 597 Folly Road, Sunbury, NC, passed away on Monday, July 2, 2018, in her home. Sharon was born in Syracuse, New York on May 6, 1958, and was the daughter of Dan J. and Shelby Ward Greene of Sunbury. A retired tea pack operator with Lipton Tea, she had also worked as an egg...
Mariah Danielle Ricks
Jul 1, 2018
Mariah Danielle Ricks, 22, of Woodville Road, Hertford, NC, passed away Sunday, July 1, 2018. Born in Pasquotank County on March 18, 1996, she was the daughter of David Edwin and Carnell Cox Ricks of Hertford. She was preceded in death by her maternal grandparents, John and Joyce Griffin Cox. In addition to her parents, surviving are her three brothers,...
Dorothy Eure Baines
Jun 30, 2018
Dorothy Mae Eure Baines, 92, of 123 Main Street, Gatesville, NC, passed away on Saturday, June 30, 2018, in Gates House Assisted Living.
Mrs. Baines was born in Edgecombe County on August 24, 1925, and was the daughter of the late Wesley F. “Fayte” Eure and Linda Crawford Eure. She was retired from the Gates County School System, and...
Shirley Harrell Russell Cox
Jun 29, 2018
Shirley Harrell Russell Cox, 86, of 1216 Cofield Point Road, Edenton, NC, passed away on Friday, June 29, 2018, in her home where she was surrounded by her family.
Mrs. Cox was born in Pasquotank County on April 8, 1932, and was the daughter of the late Johnnie and Janie Stallings Harrell. The former owner and operator of The...
Clay Willis
Jun 29, 2018
Thomas Clayton “Clay” Willis, II, passed away on Friday, June 29, 2018. Clay was born in Chowan County, North Carolina and grew up with a never-ending love for the beauty and peace he found in the woods and waters of Eastern North Carolina. In 1995, Clay graduated from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington with a Bachelor of Science in Marine...
J. Albert Riddick
Jun 28, 2018
James Albert Riddick, 90, of 893 Acorn Hill Road, Hobbsville, NC, passed away on Thursday, June 28, 2018, in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Mr. Riddick was born in Gates County on September 28, 1927, and was the son of the late Jake A. and Rosa Lee Ward Riddick. A retired farmer, he also had worked with the...
Michael Robert McKnight
Jun 27, 2018
Michael Robert McKnight, 76, of 344 Center Hill Road, Tyner, NC, died Wednesday, June 27, 2018 in his home.
Mr. McKnight was born in Rock Island, IL on February 7, 1942, and was the son of the late Weldon Harry and Lucy O’Dell McKnight. An Army veteran, he was a lifelong member of Post 3893 of the Veterans of...
William "Butch" Joyner, Jr.
Jun 26, 2018
William Oscar “Butch” Joyner, Jr., 66, of 351 Woodland Drive, Edenton, NC, died Tuesday, June 26, 2018 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Mr. Joyner was born in Craven County, NC on November 5, 1951, and was the son of the late William Oscar, Sr. and Ruby Lee Wilson Joyner. A retired heavy equipment operator from B &...
Donald Lee Keyt, Sr.
Jun 25, 2018
Passed in peace on June 25, 2018 at the age of 83.
Devoted husband to Edie for 35 years.
Loving father to Lee, Tina (Marsell) Bustos, Thad (Darlene) Keyt, Kirk Hagy (Peter Bureau), and Priscilla (John) Thomas.
Proud grandfather of Chelsea Keyt, Christina and Savannah Bustos, Charles (Haley) and William Keyt, and Alex Carlsen.
Don, an Engineering graduate...
Kent Reed
Jun 24, 2018
William Kenneth “Kent” Reed, 40, of Yellow Hammer Road, Tyner, NC, passed away on Sunday, June 24, 2018.
Kent was born in Chowan County on April 22, 1978, and was the son of Lisa Carol Brown (Bruce White) of Tyner, and James Allen Reed of Calvert City, Kentucky. He was employed with the Edenton division of United Parcel Service.
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Julia Lane Ashley
Jun 24, 2018
Julia Mae Lane Ashley, 71, of 227 Sandy Ridge Road, Edenton, NC, passed away on Sunday, June 24, 2018, in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Mrs. Ashley was born in Chowan County on July 10, 1946, and was the daughter of the late Luther and Leora Goodwin Lane. A homemaker, she was a member of Center Hill Baptist...
Margaret Waugh Barger
Jun 23, 2018
Margaret Waugh Barger, 90, formerly of the Hobbs Acres community of Edenton, NC, passed away on Saturday, June 23, 2018, in Salisbury.
Mrs. Barger was born in Iredell County on September 10, 1927, and was the daughter of the late Roy and Mary Garrison Waugh. A homemaker, in earlier years she had been a companion for the elderly and...
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