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Kenton Nadal Humphries

Kenton Nadal Humphries

Sep 2, 2014

Kenton Nadal "Stoney" Humphries, 74, of 125 Hertford Beach Road, Hertford, NC, passed from this life to meet his Lord and Saviour on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 from Sentara Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth City. Mr. Humphries was born in Lexington, VA on April 17, 1940 and was the son of the late Malcolm Lee and Mildred Ramsey Humphries. Retired from the...

Charles Henry Ward

Charles Henry Ward

Sep 1, 2014

Charles Henry Ward, 76, of 159 Halsey Bay Road, Hertford, NC, passed away quietly with his loving family by his side on Monday, September 1, 2014 at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, and began his eternal life in the joys of Heaven. Mr. Ward was born in Perquimans County on January 13, 1938 and was the son of the late Charles...

Carolyn Taylor Tynch

Carolyn Taylor Tynch

Sep 1, 2014

Carolyn Delores Taylor Tynch, 71, of 300 Meads Loop, Hertford, NC, died Monday, September 1, 2014 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Ms. Tynch was born in Pasquotank County on August 5, 1943 and was the daughter of the late Earl Daniel and Reba Laura Simmons Taylor. Retired from George C. Moore Company, she was a life-long member of The Church...

William Alphonsus "Bill" Ryan

William Alphonsus "Bill" Ryan

Aug 30, 2014

William Alphonsus "Bill" Ryan, 95, of 213 East Eden Street, Edenton, NC, died Saturday, August 30, 2014 in his home. Mr. Ryan was born in Brooklyn, NY on August 30, 1919 and was the son of the late Thomas and Greta Todd Ryan. A graduate of St. John's University School of Law in New York, he was a retired attorney...

Briar James Altman

Briar James Altman

Aug 30, 2014

Briar James Altman, 9, of 422 Yellow Hammer Road, Tyner, NC, died Saturday, August 30, 2014 in Edenton as the result of an automobile accident. Briar was born in Chowan County on July 29, 2005 and was a fourth grade student at D.F. Walker Elementary School. An avid outdoorsman, he enjoyed hunting, fishing, and had a passion for playing baseball...

Anita Parker Bower

Anita Parker Bower

Aug 29, 2014

Ronald Eugene Bower, 80, died Tuesday, August 26, 2014 in his home. His wife, Anita Parker Bower, 81, followed him a short time later on Friday, August 29. Their family believes that Ron, Anita's caregiver in her fight against cancer, left just ahead to better prepare their heavenly home. Mr. Bower was born in Kalamazoo, MI on September 5, 1933...

William Calice Cooper

William Calice Cooper

Aug 28, 2014

William Calice Cooper, Sr., 73, formerly of Columbia, and more recently of Paradise Road, Edenton, died Thursday, August 28, 2014 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mr. Cooper was born in Norfolk, VA on July 8, 1941 and was the son of the late Calice C. and Evelyn Roland Twiddy Cooper. A heavy equipment operator, he had been employed in the...

Bobby Lee Mathias

Bobby Lee Mathias

Aug 27, 2014

Bobby Lee Mathias, 83, of 1626 NC 32 North, Corapeake, NC, died peacefully at home on Wednesday, August 27, 2014 after a courageous battle with cancer. Mr. Mathias was born in Gates County on May 12, 1931 and was the son of the late Algie R. and Florence Brinkley Mathias. Early in life he farmed, but later began working as...

Ed Woolwine

Ed Woolwine

Aug 27, 2014

James Edward "Ed" Woolwine, 77, of 1806 Arapahoe Trail, died Wednesday, August 27, 2014 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City. Mr. Woolwine was born in Alderson, WV on June 12, 1937 and was the son of the late Woodrow W. Woolwine and Geneva Ward Woolwine Davis. A 1955 graduate of Norview High, he played both football and baseball during...

Ronald Eugine Bower

Ronald Eugine Bower

Aug 26, 2014

Ronald Eugene Bower, 80, died Tuesday, August 26, 2014 in his home. His wife, Anita Parker Bower, 81, followed him a short time later on Friday, August 29. Their family believes that Ron, Anita's caregiver in her fight against cancer, left just ahead to better prepare their heavenly home. Mr. Bower was born in Kalamazoo, MI on September 5, 1933...

Ellen Godfrey Harris

Ellen Godfrey Harris

Aug 24, 2014

Ellen Mae Godfrey Harris, 78, of 113 Smith Acres Road, Hertford, NC, died Sunday, August 24, 2014 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mrs. Harris was born in Norfolk, VA on March 24, 1936 and was the daughter of the late Jack Garland and Pearl Arrowsmith Godfrey. A homemaker, she attended Bagley Swamp Wesleyan Church. In addition to her parents, she...

Judy Summerill Parsons

Judy Summerill Parsons

Aug 24, 2014

Judy Deane Summerill Parsons, 71, of 107 Kickapoo Trail, died Sunday, August 24, 2014 in her home. Mrs. Parsons was born in Norfolk, VA on August 13, 1943 and was the daughter of the late Herman and Angela Sykes Summerill. A homemaker, she was also preceded in death by her sister, Wayne S. Banks. Surviving are her husband of 55...

Elmer Stewart Van Anden, Sr.

Elmer Stewart Van Anden, Sr.

Aug 22, 2014

Elmer Stewart Van Anden, Sr., 74, of Belvidere, NC, died Friday, August 22, 2014 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mr. Van Anden was born in Putnam County, NY on July 26, 1940 and was the son of the late Sylvanus and Margaret Barrett Van Anden. Employed as a plumber and electrician for many years, he was a life-time member of...

Katherine Lane Lamb

Katherine Lane Lamb

Aug 21, 2014

Katherine Faye Lane Lamb, 68, of 207 Woodland Circle, Hertford, NC, died Thursday, August 21, 2014 in Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation of Elizabeth City following a 16 year battle with cancer. Ms. Lamb was born in Perquimans County on December 27, 1945 and was the daughter of the late Vernon Charlie "V.C." and Catherine Nixon Lane. She had been...

Lanier White

Lanier White

Aug 20, 2014

Francis Lanier White, 85, of 254 Ridge Road, Belvidere, NC, died Wednesday, August 20, 2014 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City. Mr. White was born in Perquimans County on September 16, 1928 and was the son of the late Paul Jay and Irma Winslow White. A graduate of Elizabeth City High School, he attended the University of North Carolina...

Lillian Blanchette Cuthrell

Lillian Blanchette Cuthrell

Aug 20, 2014

Lillian Blanchette Cuthrell, 74, of 80 Northeast Drive, Gates, NC, died Wednesday, August 20, 2014 in her home. Mrs. Cuthrell was born in New Bedford, MA on July 23, 1940 and was the daughter of the late Louis and Bessie Williams Blanchette. A homemaker, she was a member of Reynoldson Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded...

Beulah Lane Boyce Turner

Beulah Lane Boyce Turner

Aug 20, 2014

Beulah Lane Boyce Turner, 86, of 219 Sandy Ridge Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, August 20, 2014 in W.R. Winslow Memorial Home, Elizabeth City. Mrs. Turner was born in Chowan County on November 4, 1927 and was the daughter of the late Luther and Leora Goodwin Lane. A former care-giver for the elderly, she was a member of Center Hill...

Mary Riddick Gellner

Mary Riddick Gellner

Aug 18, 2014

Mary Jane Riddick Ballard Gellner, 90, of The Mennowood Retirement Community, Newport News, VA, died there on Monday, August 18, 2014. Mrs. Gellner was born in Gates County on June 25, 1924 and was the daughter of the late Oscar and Fornie Stallings Riddick. A graduate of Hobbsville High School, and a former "Miss Gates County", she was a retired...

Joyce Brinkley White

Joyce Brinkley White

Aug 18, 2014

Joyce Hope Brinkley White, 83, formerly of Corapeake, NC, and more recently of her daughter's home at 225 Timberlane Drive, Rocky Mount, NC, died peacefully at home Monday, August 18, 2014. Joyce was born in Gates County on November 28, 1930, the daughter of the late Channan Parrish, Sr. and Eunice Brinkley. She was preceded in death by her beloved...

Peggy Abee Lowman

Peggy Abee Lowman

Aug 17, 2014

Peggy Abee Lowman, 81, of 40 Horton Lane, Eure, NC, died Sunday, August 17, 2014 in Down East Health & Rehabilitation Center, Gatesville. Mrs. Lowman was born in Burke County, NC on July 30, 1933, and was the daughter of the late Grady W. and Flossie Poteat Abee. A retired shipping and receiving clerk with Sears & Roebuck, she was...

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