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Josephine Ward Copeland

Josephine Ward Copeland

Oct 16, 2012

Josephine Ward Copeland, 89, of 142 Sign Pine Road, Tyner, NC, died Tuesday, October 16, 2012 in Winslow Memorial Home, Elizabeth City. Mrs. Copeland was born in Perquimans County and was the daughter of the late Robert Felton and Josephine Goodwin Ward. A retired seamstress, she had worked with Don Juan Mfg. in Hertford and later with 17 South Garment...

Patricia Sorey West

Patricia Sorey West

Oct 15, 2012

Patricia Sorey West, 60, of 128 Crabtree Trail, Point Harbor, NC, and formerly of Gates, passed away Monday, October 15, 2012 in her home. Ms. West was born in Norfolk, VA and was the daughter of the late James Marvin, Sr. and Cinda Lee Johnson Sorey. A cosmetologist, she was the owner and operator of Gates Hair Salon. Surviving are...

Ethan Benjamin Jennings

Ethan Benjamin Jennings

Oct 14, 2012

Ethan Benjamin Jennings, 23, of 215 E. Inlet Circle, Hertford, NC, died Sunday, October 14, 2012. Ethan was born in Norfolk, VA and was the son of Mary Elizabeth Jordan Jennings and David Bates Jennings, both of Hertford. He was a graduate in 2008 of Perquimans HS who graduated with the 4th highest average of his senior class. Ethan was...

Douglas Eugene Pittman

Douglas Eugene Pittman

Oct 9, 2012

Douglas Eugene Pittman, Sr., 86, of 1278 Beech Springs Road, Tyner, NC, died Tuesday, October 9, 2012 in his home. Mr. Pittman was born in South Carolina and was the son of the late Clyde and Sadie Nash Pittman. A retired maintenance foreman from Emporia Foundry, he was a member of Hunter's Fork Pentecostal Holiness Church and was a veteran...

June Collier-Savage

June Collier-Savage

Oct 8, 2012

June Collier-Savage, 65, of 1640 Great Fork Road, Suffolk, VA, died Monday, October 8, 2012 in Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. Mrs. Savage was born in Southampton County and was the daughter of the late Thomas Marvin and Evelyn Joyner Collier. For many years she was employed with Lipton Tea in Suffolk, later received her LPN degree, and worked with Southampton...

Sue Williams Keller

Sue Williams Keller

Oct 7, 2012

Sue Williams Keller, 93, of Edenton Prime Time Village, Mark Drive, died Sunday, October 7, 2012 in Vidant Chowan Hospital. Mrs. Keller was born November 28, 1918 in Chowan County and was the daughter of the late Levy and Minnie Copeland Williams. Living in Edenton until she was 22 years old, she then moved to Raleigh and worked as an...

Nancy Hudson Prentice

Nancy Hudson Prentice

Oct 7, 2012

Nancy H. Prentice, 84, of 116 Choctaw Trail, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, October 7, 2012 in Edenton. Mrs. Prentice was born in Clifton Forge, VA and was the daughter of the late Willie Marion and Alice Layne Hudson. A retired government employee with the Navy Department, she was a member of Bandon Chapel Church in the Arrowhead subdivision of Edenton....

Ellen Martha Schreiber

Ellen Martha Schreiber

Oct 7, 2012

Ellen Martha Schreiber, 90, died October 7, 2012 at a Windsor, N.C., nursing home after a long illness. She was born on April 10, 1922 in Ontario, Canada to the late Daniel and Elizabeth McFarlane Gardiner, who emigrated from Scotland. She was married on September 19, 1942, to Carl E. Schreiber, who died on June 11, 1977. They lived in...

Matthew Jacob Gilbert

Matthew Jacob Gilbert

Oct 5, 2012

Infant Matthew Jacob Gilbert, 7 months, of 226 Happy Home Road, Tyner, NC, died Friday, October 5, 2012. Matthew was born in Chowan County and was the son of Jennifer Marie Gilbert of Tyner and Zachary Ty Anson Harwood of Norfolk, VA. Surviving in addition to his parents are a sister, Kaitlyn Gilbert of the home; three brothers, Cameron Costa...

Bobby Gregory Womble

Bobby Gregory Womble

Oct 1, 2012

Bobby Gregory Womble, 74, of 15 Liverman Mill Road, Ahoskie, NC, died Monday, October 1, 2012 in Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital. Mr. Womble was born in Suffolk, VA. Retired from the maintenance department at Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, he was a member of the Bear Swamp Hunt Club and had served in the Virginia National Guard. Surviving are his daughter, Camye Elizabeth...

Tina Bos Boerema

Tina Bos Boerema

Sep 29, 2012

Tina Bos Boerema, 87, of 4085 NC 45 N., Pantego, entered eternal glory to be with her faithful Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Saturday, September 29, 2012 in Byron Center, Michigan. Born in the Netherlands on December 10, 1924, she was the daughter of the late Hendrik and Antje deRoos Bos. In 1949 she immigrated with her husband Gerrit...

Jack Dawson Leary

Jack Dawson Leary

Sep 28, 2012

Jack Dawson Leary, 81, passed away Friday, September 28, 2012 in his hometown of Edenton, NC following a lengthy illness. Born November 29, 1930, he was the son of the late Stillman and Delsie Perry Leary. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, The Rev. Bill Leary, his nephew, Dale Leary, his sister and...

Daisy Christine Lamb McKeown

Daisy Christine Lamb McKeown

Sep 27, 2012

Daisy Christine Lamb McKeown, 62, of 404 Tuscarora Trail, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, September 27, 2012 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mrs. McKeown was born in Chowan County and was the daughter of the late William Linwood and Mary Alice Copeland Lamb. She was retired from George C. Moore Company in Edenton. In addition to her parents she was preceded...

Betty Ann Jefferson Ali

Betty Ann Jefferson Ali

Sep 27, 2012

Betty Ann Jefferson Ali, 69, of 232 Little Island Road, Eure, NC, died Thursday, September 27, 2012 in Down East Health and Rehabilitation in Gatesville. Ms. Ali was born in Guilford County and was the daughter of the late Ray and Mattie Gray Jefferson. A homemaker, she was a member of Mothers Inc. in Virginia Beach, VA. In addition to...

Robert Casey Hallahan

Robert Casey Hallahan

Sep 25, 2012

Robert Casey "Bob" Hallahan, 69, of 515 Kimberly Drive, Edenton, NC, passed away peacefully Tuesday, September 25, 2012. Mr. Hallahan was born in Corning, NY. A retired insurance broker with Marsh and McLennan Companies, he was a member of Edenton United Methodist Church, the Edenton Kiwanis, and had served in the US Navy. Surviving are his wife of 34 years,...

Walter Julius Morgan, Sr.

Walter Julius Morgan, Sr.

Sep 24, 2012

Walter Julius Morgan, Sr., 89, of 18 Stocks Lane, Corapeake, NC, died Monday, September 24, 2012 in his home. Mr. Morgan was born in Nash County and was the son of the late Elmo Herbert and Clara Reams Morgan. A retired bus driver from Tidewater Regional Transit in Norfolk, VA after 35 years of continuous service, he was a member...

William Leslie Umphlett

William Leslie Umphlett

Sep 23, 2012

William Leslie Umphlett, 68, of 181 US Hwy 13 South, Eure, NC, died, Sunday, September 23, 2012 in Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie. Mr. Umphlett was born in Gates County and was the son of the late James Elliott and Ruth Spivey Umphlett. The retired owner and operator of the former Corner High Store, he was an avid racing fan. In...

Earline Morse Godfrey

Earline Morse Godfrey

Sep 20, 2012

Earline Morse "Teenie" Godfrey, 77, of Carolina House and formerly of Winslow Road, Hertford, died Thursday, September 20, 2012 in Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth City. Mrs. Godfrey was born in Perquimans County and was the daughter of the late Ernest Earl and Pauline Corbitt Morse. A homemaker, she was a member of both the New Hope Home Demonstration Club and the...

Doris Layden Monds

Doris Layden Monds

Sep 20, 2012

Doris Layden Monds, 82, of 934 Center Hill Highway, Tyner, NC, died Thursday, September 20, 2012 in her home. Mrs. Monds was born in Perquimans County and was the daughter of the late Archie Elfred and Beatrice Copeland Layden. A member of Center Hill Baptist Church, she with her husband were the retired owners and operators of L.C. Monds Truck...

Dorothy Woodley Day Cerre

Dorothy Woodley Day Cerre

Sep 18, 2012

Dorothy Woodley Day Cerre, 97, died on September 18, 2012. Mrs. Cerre was born in Creswell, North Carolina, on March 27, 1915, the daughter of the late Eva Cotten Davis Woodley and the Rev. Stewart Johnston Woodley, and the granddaughter of the late Rev. Dr. Dennis Wrighter Davis and Mary Cotten Davis. Dot Cerre's passion in life was music as...

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