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Charles Benjamin Barker, Jr.

Charles Benjamin Barker, Jr.

Sep 10, 2015

Charles Benjamin Barker, Jr., age 73, passed away at his home near Smyrna, Delaware on Thursday, September 10, 2015. He was born in Windsor, North Carolina on April 6, 1942; the son of the late Charles B. Barker, Sr. and Carolyn R. Barker Wells. Mr. Barker was employed by Atlantic Aviation Corporation in New Castle, Delaware for 29 years and...

Kenneth Franklin Rowsey

Kenneth Franklin Rowsey

Sep 8, 2015

Kenneth Franklin Rowsey, 51, of 1148-1 Drum Hill Road, Gates, NC, died Tuesday, September 8, 2015 in Riverside Regional Medical Center. Mr. Rowsey was born in Rockbridge County, VA on September 5, 1964 and was the son of Franklin Douglas Rowsey of Buena Vista, VA and the late Mary Elizabeth Wood Ramsey. He was employed as a foreman with Corman...

Wayne Ernest Barry

Wayne Ernest Barry

Sep 8, 2015

Wayne Ernest Barry, 80, of 1236 Macedonia Road, Edenton, NC, died Tuesday, September 8, 2015 in Vidant Chowan Hospital. Mr. Barry was born in Rochester, NY and was the son of the late Dwight W. and Alice Milliman Barry. The retired owner and operator of Barry's Centenary Inn in Williamson, NY, he had served in the United States Army for...

Bobby Bryant Britton

Bobby Bryant Britton

Sep 8, 2015

Bobby Bryant Britton, 66, of Gilbert's Beach Road, died Tuesday, September 8, 2015 in his home. Mr. Britton was born on August 6, 1949 in Bertie County and was the son of the late Cecil Rhodes and Betty Gray Bennett Britton. He was retired from Virginia Electric & Power Co., (VEPCO), having worked in hydraulic maintenance. In addition to his...

Ed Kabler

Ed Kabler

Sep 7, 2015

Charles Edward "Ed" Kabler, 75, of 10 Small Lane, Eure, NC, stepped into eternity with Jesus on Monday, September 7, 2015. Ed was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 27, 1939, and was the son of the late William and Rose Zelda Sparks Kabler. A construction and paving laborer, he attended Upper Room Assembly and had served with the Military...

Brenda Longpre Hoepfner

Brenda Longpre Hoepfner

Sep 7, 2015

Brenda Adele Longpre Hoepfner, 67, of 148 New River Drive, Albemarle Plantation, Hertford, NC, died Monday, September 7, 2015 as the result of injuries received in a boating accident. Mrs. Hoepfner was born in Brooklyn, NY on February 5, 1948. The CFO of H & M Recruiting Group, she was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church in Elizabeth City....

Henry Francis Cobb

Henry Francis Cobb

Sep 6, 2015

Henry Francis Cobb, 82, of 518 Jamestown Road, Windsor, NC, died Sunday, September 6, 2015 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mr. Cobb was born in Gates County, and was one of 12 children born to the late Zeb Vance and Lillian Brown Cobb. A retired boiler engineer with Amoco Oil Company in Chesapeake, VA, he was a member of Bethany...

Mae Carlisle Wynn

Mae Carlisle Wynn

Sep 3, 2015

Bessie Mae Carlisle Wynn, 81, of 106 East Heron Court, Elizabeth City, NC, and formerly of Edenton, died Thursday, September 3, 2015 in Waterbrooke of Elizabeth City. Mrs. Wynn was born on September 4, 1933 in Edgecombe County and was the daughter of the late Robert Vann Carlisle and Bessie Whitehurst Carlisle Paul. A homemaker, she was a member of...

Jeanette Allen Chappell Meads

Jeanette Allen Chappell Meads

Sep 3, 2015

Lois Jeanette Allen Chappell Meads, 91, of Lexington, SC, and formerly of Tyner, NC, passed away on Thursday, September 3, 2015. Mrs. Meads was born in Tallahassee, FL on December 5, 1923, and was the daughter of the late Henry S. and Ethel Farrell Allen. A homemaker, she was a long-time member of Happy Home Pentecostal Holiness Church, and also...

Billy Lassiter

Billy Lassiter

Aug 30, 2015

William Herbert "Billy" Lassiter, Jr., 84, of 770 US Hwy 158, Sunbury, NC, died Sunday, August 30, 2015 in his home where he was surrounded by his family. Mr. Lassiter was born in Gates County on January 30, 1931, and was the son of the late William H., Sr. and Dolna Harrell Lassiter. A graduate of Sunbury High School, he...

Richard Heath Bryant

Richard Heath Bryant

Aug 30, 2015

Richard Heath Bryant, 86, of 1010 Sound Shore Drive, Edenton, NC, and formerly of Hampton Court in Rocky Mount, passed away into eternal rest on Sunday, August 30, 2015. Mr. Bryant was born in Nash County on August 23, 1929, and was the son of the late Willie Pitt and Bettie Wyche Raney Bryant. His brother, William "Cookie" Bryant, and...

L. Dean Lamb

L. Dean Lamb

Aug 29, 2015

Lloyd Dean Lamb, 48, of Yeopim Tail, Edenton, NC, died Saturday, August 29, 2015. Dean was born in Chowan County on March 24, 1967, and was the son of the late James Louis and Mary Alice Copeland Lamb. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sister, Daisy L. McKeown, and a brother, Delvin E. Lamb....

Amy Elizabeth Sims

Amy Elizabeth Sims

Aug 28, 2015

Amy Elizabeth Sims, 37, of 476 Water Plant Road, Gates, NC, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Friday, August 28, 2015 in her home. Amy was born in Norfolk, VA on August 28, 1978, and was the daughter of Alan and Karen Sims of Gates. A graduate of Gates County High School, she had attended Abundant Hope Baptist Church...

Nette Umphlett

Nette Umphlett

Aug 28, 2015

Nette Umphlett, 65, of 984 Woodville Road, Hertford, NC, died Friday, August 28, 2015 after a courageous battle with cancer. Born October 4, 1949 in Perquimans County, she was the daughter of the late Santos William "Doc" Umphlett and Una Lee Small Umphlett. A retired legal secretary, she was a member of New Hope United Methodist Church. Best known for...

R. Dalton Phelps

R. Dalton Phelps

Aug 27, 2015

Reginald Dalton Phelps, 89, of 302 S. Sixth St., died Thursday, August 27, 2015 in Three Rivers Health & Rehabilitation, Windsor. Mr. Phelps was born in Washington County on November 30, 1925, and was the son of the late Charlie Edmond and Hilda Davenport Phelps. A retired general contractor, he was the founder and longtime owner of Creswell Construction Company....

Bonnie Shenkle D'Antonio

Bonnie Shenkle D'Antonio

Aug 26, 2015

Bonnie Lynn Shenkle D'Antonio, 78, of Rosecroft Drive, Elizabeth City, NC, died Wednesday, August 26, 2015 in Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital. Mrs. D'Antonio was born in DuBois, PA on November 17, 1936, and was the daughter of the late Delbert Edmund and Dorothy Anna Thomas Shenkle. A retired office administrator, she was a Baptist by faith. A loving wife,...

Billie White

Billie White

Aug 24, 2015

Opal Vandenberge "Billie" White, 91, of 168 Swaynes Lane, Hertford, NC, died Monday, August 24, 2015 in Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation, Elizabeth City. Mrs. Billie was born in Miller County, Arkansas on May 27, 1924, and was the daughter of the late William C. and Eula Mae Smith Vandenberge. A homemaker, she was a charter member of New Hope...

Rebecca Lassiter Copeland

Rebecca Lassiter Copeland

Aug 23, 2015

Rebecca Lassiter Copeland, 90, formerly of Woodland, NC, died Sunday, August 23, 2015 in Southampton Memorial Hospital, Franklin, VA. Mrs. Copeland was born in the Potecasi community of Northampton County, NC on September 14, 1924, and was the daughter of the late William Cornelius "Willie" Lassiter and Fannie Grant Lassiter. A graduate of Meredith College, she was a retired elementary...

Bernard Lee Poff

Bernard Lee Poff

Aug 21, 2015

Bernard Lee Poff, 82, of 117 Taylor Lane, Hertford, NC, died Friday, August 21, 2015 in his home. Mr. Poff was born in Norfolk, VA on January 12, 1933, and was the son of the late Cecil Melvin Poff and Iris Lee Walsh Fairfield. Employed for many years as a site attendant with the Edenton-Chowan Convenience Centers, he was the...

Virginia Myers Oldham

Virginia Myers Oldham

Aug 18, 2015

Virginia Myers Oldham, 88, of 1503 West Queen Street, Edenton, NC, passed away on Tuesday, August 18, 2015 in Baptist South Hospital, Jacksonville, FL. Mrs. Oldham was born on January 28, 1927 in Bertie County and was the daughter of the late James David "Jim" Myers and Ethel Miller Myers. A homemaker, she was a member of Edenton Baptist Church....

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