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John Almer Lane, Jr.

John Almer Lane, Jr.

Feb 18, 2023

   John Almer “Johnie” Lane, Jr., 79, of 664 NC Highway 137, Eure, NC, died peacefully on Saturday, February 18, 2023.

   Mr. Lane was born on September 3, 1943, and was the son of the late John Almer Lane, Sr. and Louise Forehand Lane (deceased husband, William Boone). In addition to his parents and step-father, he was preceded in death by...

Nancy Ryan

Nancy Ryan

Feb 16, 2023

   Ann Patricia Curran "Nancy" Ryan, 87, of Merry Hill, NC, passed away Thursday, February 16, 2023 in ECU Health Medical Center, Greenville.

   Mrs. Ryan was born in New York City, NY on December 12, 1935, and was the daughter of the late John Curran and Rose Mary Flood Curran. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by...

Barbara Blanchard Hedgepeth

Barbara Blanchard Hedgepeth

Feb 15, 2023

   Barbara Frances Blanchard Hedgepeth, 80, of 309 Tuggie Eure Road, Eure, NC, died Wednesday, February 15, 2023 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.

   Mrs. Hedgepeth was born in Yonkers, New York on June 17, 1942, and was the daughter of the late Wallace and Marion Newton Blanchard. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her...

Leslie Colley McMellon, Jr.

Leslie Colley McMellon, Jr.

Feb 14, 2023

   Leslie Colley McMellon, Jr., 86, of Hertford, NC, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, February 14, 2023.

   Mr. McMellon was born in Fall River, MA on March 28, 1936 to the late Leslie C. and Margaret Myles McMellon. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his daughter, Kellie Tallentire.

   A veteran, he proudly served in the U.S....

Mary Margaret Fallon White

Mary Margaret Fallon White

Feb 13, 2023

   Mary Margaret Fallon White, 76, of 4600 Desert Road, Suffolk, VA, died peacefully on Monday, February 13, 2023 in her home where she was cared for by her family.

   Mrs. White was born in Carbondale, Pennsylvania on July 18, 1946, and was the daughter of the late Lawrence and Mary Margaret Okon Fallon. With her husband she owned Ambient Air...

June Chaulk Layden

June Chaulk Layden

Feb 13, 2023

   June Chaulk Layden, 78, of Belvidere, NC, passed away Monday, February 13, 2023 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.

   Mrs. Layden was born in Perquimans County on December 15, 1944, and was the daughter of the late Stephen D. and Annie Belle Smith Chaulk. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence D....

Bobby Jones

Bobby Jones

Feb 12, 2023

   Harold Robert "Bobby" Jones, 86, of 670 Body Road, Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Sunday, February 12, 2023 in his home where he was being cared for by family.

   Mr. Jones was born in Perquimans County on September 14, 1936, and was the son of the late Thomas Hoyle Jones and Sallie Mae Hobbs Jones. In addition to his parents,...

Kayla Elizabeth Ricks

Kayla Elizabeth Ricks

Feb 11, 2023

   Kayla Elizabeth Ricks, 28, of Wilmington, NC, and formerly of Edenton, died Saturday, February 11th, 2023 as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident.

   Kayla was born in Lynchburg, Virginia on August 8th, 1994, and was the daughter of Dante Ewell and Kristie Ricks Byrum. She was raised in Edenton by her adoptive parents, Carolyn Rogerson Ricks and...

Nancy Morris Wiggins

Nancy Morris Wiggins

Feb 10, 2023

   Nancy Morris Wiggins, 72, of 1018 Drum Hill Road, Gates, NC, died Friday, February 10, 2023 in her home.

   Mrs. Wiggins was born in Suffolk, VA on May 11, 1950 and was one of four daughters born to the late Benjamin Franklin Morris and Hilda Leigh Johnson Morris. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by sisters,...

Alene Dale Briggs Hollowell

Alene Dale Briggs Hollowell

Feb 10, 2023

   Alene Dale Briggs Hollowell, 98, formerly of Tyner, NC and more recently of Boca Raton, Florida, died there on Friday, February 10, 2023.

   Mrs. Hollowell was born in Chowan County on November 29, 1924 and was the daughter of the late Herbert W. and Nettie Jordan Dale. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husbands,...

Welsford Eure Artz

Welsford Eure Artz

Feb 10, 2023

   Welsford Eure Artz, 79, of Durham, NC, passed away peacefully on Friday, February 10, 2023, in his home where he was surrounded by his family.

   Welsford grew up in his beloved eastern North Carolina village of Gatesville in Gates County. The son of the late John and Louise Eure Artz, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel...

Evelyn Long Layden

Evelyn Long Layden

Feb 9, 2023

   Evelyn Long Layden, 99, of 727 W. Grubb Street, Hertford, NC, passed away Thursday, February 9, 2023 in her home where she was being cared for by family.

   Mrs. Layden was born in Perquimans County on May 13, 1923, and was the daughter of the late William Preston Long and Mary Chappell Long. In addition to her parents, she was...

Cynthia Ober Spruill

Cynthia Ober Spruill

Feb 8, 2023

   Cynthia Kaye Ober Spruill of Creswell, NC, passed away Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at ECU Health Medical Center.

   Cindy was born October 9, 1967, in Washington, NC. Cindy was preceded in death by her daughter, Kimberly, grandmother, Vera Lancaster, and stepfather, Billy Paul.

   After her daughter Kimberly died waiting on a heart transplant, she became a registered organ donor. A...

Charlotte Gwaltney-Hatcher

Charlotte Gwaltney-Hatcher

Feb 8, 2023

   Charlotte Annette Gwaltney-Hatcher, 52, of 322 Sandy Ridge Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday. February 8, 2023.

   Born on September 25, 1970 in Nansemond County, Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Donald Lee Gwaltney, Sr. and Shelby Irene Pate Gwaltney. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Donald L. Gwaltney, Jr.

   Surviving are...

Urbane Vaughn Travis

Urbane Vaughn Travis

Feb 7, 2023

Urbane (Urb) Vaughn Travis died Tuesday February 7th, 2023 in Edenton, NC; he was 88; born August 23, 1934 in Nha Trang, Vietnam to Chester Earl Travis of Morocco, IN and Mary Nellie Hall of Fryeburg, ME, Christian and Missionary Alliance missionaries. Urb was the last surviving member of his family, and the fifth of five children; he was preceded...

Foster Parrish

Foster Parrish

Feb 7, 2023

   Foster Parrish, 84 of Corapeake, NC, passed away Tuesday, February 7, 2023 in his home where he was being cared for by loved ones.

   Mr. Parrish was born in Nelsonville, KY on January 14, 1939, and was the son of the late John William Parrish and Lena Crady Parrish. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by...

Celia Rae Nixon Copeland

Celia Rae Nixon Copeland

Feb 7, 2023

   Celia Rae Nixon Copeland, 96, of Ryland Road, Tyner, NC, died Tuesday, February 7, 2023 in ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie.

   Mrs. Copeland was born in Chowan County on February 10, 1926, and was the daughter of the late Jesse and Dixie White Nixon. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Lester Taylor Copeland;...

Stanton Harrell

Stanton Harrell

Feb 6, 2023

   Thomas Stanton Harrell, 85, of Yeopim Road, Edenton, NC, died Monday, February 6, 2023 in CarolinaEast Medical Center, New Bern.

   Mr. Harrell was born in Chowan County on April 8, 1937, and was the son of the late Thomas O. and Thelma Stanton Harrell. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Faye Twiddy Harrell,...

Ricky Eugene Lee

Ricky Eugene Lee

Feb 5, 2023

   Ricky Eugene Lee, 61, of Highway 137, Eure, NC, died Sunday, February 5, 2023 in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, VA.

   Ricky was born in Hertford County on October 3, 1961. Formerly employed with Lipton Tea in Suffolk, he was a member of Eure Baptist Church.

   Preceded in death by his father, Morton Eugene Lee; he is survived by his mother...

Kay White Toler

Kay White Toler

Feb 3, 2023

   Kay White Toler, 73, of 244 Hwy 45 North, Merry Hill, NC, died Friday, February 3, 2023 in ECU Health Chowan Hospital, Edenton.

   Mrs. Toler was born in Bertie County on July 11, 1949, and was the daughter of the late Louis Albert White, Sr. and Thelma Cobb White Bruce. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death...

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