Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Gene Sample
Sep 30, 2023
Calvin Eugene “Gene” Sample, 87, of Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Saturday, September 30, 2023 at his home following a long illness, where he was being cared for by family.
Mr. Sample was born September 4, 1936 in a small house near the woods on Thunder Road in Elizabeth City. The son of the late Dallas Earl and Lina Pike...
Marshall Lee Williford, Jr.
Sep 30, 2023
Marshall Lee Williford, Jr., of 111 Pembroke Circle, Edenton, NC, passed away on Saturday, September 30, 2023.
Mr. Williford was born in Hertford County on October 23, 1954 and was the son of Barbara Lena Mizelle Williford of Windsor and the late Marshall Lee Williford, Sr. In addition to his father he was preceded in death by his brother, Eric...
John Augustus Smith
Sep 28, 2023
John Augustus Smith, Sr., 73, of 586 Burnt Mill Road, Hertford, NC, died Thursday, September 28, 2023 in his home.
Mr. Smith was born in Chowan County on September 12, 1950 and was the son of the late Robert Wilson and Mary Lois Todd Smith. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his son, John A....
Reinhard Paul-Gunter Kruegel
Sep 27, 2023
Reinhard Paul-Gunter Kruegel, 84, passed away in Elizabeth City, N.C. on September 27 after a long struggle with the aftereffects of Covid and other health issues. Reinhard was born in Bad Godesberg, Germany to Gottwald Hugo Reinhard and Eleonore (née Hunninghaus) Kruegel on June 2, 1939, the youngest of five children.
Reinhard is missed dearly by his family and...
Willie Arthur Hardee, Jr.
Sep 27, 2023
Willie Arthur Hardee, Jr., 67, of 232 Ainsley Road, Hertford, NC, passed away Wednesday, September 27, 2023 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Mr. Hardee was born in Pitt County on March 30, 1956, and was the son of the late Willie Arthur, Sr. and Helen Ruth Collins Hardee. An engineer, he retired from Norfolk Naval Shipyard following 34...
Johnnie Blake Parker
Sep 27, 2023
Johnnie Blake Parker, 85, of 1316 NC Highway 137, Eure, NC, died Wednesday, September 27, 2023 in ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie.
Mr. Parker was born in and a life-long resident of the Eure community in Gates County and was the last surviving child born to the late James Kindred and Mary Polly Mullen Parker. His wife, Carolyn Mitchell Parker;...
Clyde Wood
Sep 26, 2023
Willis Clyde Wood, 66, of 168 Hertford Beach Road, Hertford, NC, passed away Tuesday, September 26, 2023 in his home.
Clyde was born in Edgecombe County on December 26, 1956, and was the son of the late Willis Rex Wood and Martha Lee Johnson Warren. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sister, Patricia Whitfield.
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Margaret Russell Trombley
Sep 26, 2023
Margaret Ann Russell Chambers Trombley, 82, of 382 Hercules Court, Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Tuesday, September 26, 2023 in her home where she was being cared for by family.
Mrs. Trombley was born in Portsmouth, VA on February 23, 1941, and was the daughter of the late Harry Nurney and Ida Mae White Russell. In addition to her parents,...
Ada Willey Carroll
Sep 23, 2023
Ada Louise Willey Carroll, 100 of Raleigh, NC, and a former longtime resident of Gates, died Saturday, September 23, 2023 at her home.
Ada was born in Gates County on March 18, 1923 and was the only daughter born to the late Dan Arthur and Rosa Whedbee Willey. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her...
Jimmy Wayne Tarkington
Sep 22, 2023
Jimmy Wayne Tarkington, 64, of Long Ridge Road, Plymouth, NC, died Friday, September 22, 2023 in ECU Medical Center, Greenville.
Jimmy was born in Chowan County on May 30, 1959 and was the son of the late Paul Alton and Frances Harrell Tarkington. He was a graduate of Creswell High School in the class of 1977. In addition to his...
Nell Pierce Little
Sep 22, 2023
Nell Pierce Little, 82, of 143 NC Highway 45 South, Merry Hill, NC, died Friday, September 22, 2023 in ECU Health Inpatient Hospice.
Mrs. Little was born in Colerain on January 29, 1941 and was the daughter of the late DeFord and Nettie Ruth Harrell Pierce. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Ruth...
Sarah Langston Parker Haddock
Sep 21, 2023
Sarah Langston Parker Haddock, 97, a former longtime resident of Atlanta, GA, and more recently of Inspired Living at Alpharetta, died Thursday, September 21, 2023.
Mrs. Haddock was born in what is now known as Suffolk, VA on September 27, 1925 and was the daughter of the late Borland Thomas and Hannah Kate Parker. In addition to her parents, she...
Bill McCleney
Sep 21, 2023
William Odell “Bill” McCleney, 82, of Richmond, VA, died on September 21, 2023.
Bill was born on September 26, 1940, in Chowan County, N.C. He was predeceased by his father, William Carey McCleney and his mother, Evelyn Jernigan McCleney.
Bill is survived by his loving and caring sister, Jean M. Turk of Roanoke Rapids, N.C.; dear friends, Pam and Walker...
Brenda Lee Morgan
Sep 20, 2023
Brenda Lee Morgan, 58, of Stocks Lane, Corapeake, NC, died Wednesday, September 20, 2023 in Chesapeake Health & Rehabilitation Center, Chesapeake, VA.
Brenda was born in Norfolk, VA on November 24, 1964 and was the daughter of the late Walter J., Sr. and Marie Stocks Morgan. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her infant children,...
Robert George Exler
Sep 20, 2023
Robert George Exler, 77, of Hertford, NC, passed away Wednesday, September 20, 2023 with his loving family by his side.
Mr. Exler was born in Dearborn, MI on June 5, 1946 and was the son of the late George William Exler and Eleanor Pisaneschi Exler. The family moved to Tennessee and eventually settled in Pittsburgh, PA. His formative years were...
Evelyn Rae Flowers
Sep 18, 2023
Evelyn "Ebbie" Rae Flowers, of Gates, NC, born September 12, 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama passed September 18, 2023. She was predeceased in death by her parents, James and Mary Flowers, brothers, Charles and James, sisters Mary Margaret and twin Clara Mae, and her son, James Kalwite. She is survived by son Louis Kalwite III (Lynn) and daughter Katherine Kalwite, grandchildren...
Robert Leroy Phelps, Sr.
Sep 17, 2023
Robert Leroy Phelps, Sr., 83, of 1217 Barber Road, Roper, NC, passed away Sunday, September 17, 2023 in ECU Chowan Hospital, Edenton.
Mr. Phelps was born in Washington County on January 3, 1940 and was the son of the late Loomis Bobby “L.B.” Phelps and Mary Frances White Mason. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by...
Velma Layden Owens
Sep 17, 2023
Velma Faye Layden Owens, 100, of Wilmington, NC, and formerly a longtime resident of Hertford, NC, passed away Sunday, September 17, 2023 in North Chase Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, Wilmington.
Mrs. Owens was born in Perquimans County on August 19, 1923, and was the daughter of the late Thomas Parker Layden and Luna Ester Winslow Layden. In addition to her...
Philip Burke Thomason
Sep 13, 2023
Philip Burke “Phil” Thomason, 65, of 411 Evans-Bass Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, September 13, 2023 in his home where he was cared for by his family.
Phil was born in Greenville, SC on August 6, 1958 and was the son of Grace Elizabeth Sims Thomason of Hertford and the late Billy Burke Thomason. In addition to his father, he...
Jesse Lee Elks
Sep 13, 2023
Jesse Lee Elks, 81, born to Roy L. and Retha P. Elks on December 14, 1941, in Chocowinity, NC, departed from this world on September 13, 2023 to his heavenly home. Jesse was often late to events in his life, a habit that started early; he was 6 minutes behind his twin sister Tessie (Jimmy Hudson). His family grew with...
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