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Evelyn Harrell Powell

Evelyn Harrell Powell

Mar 13, 2020

   Evelyn Jeanette Harrell Powell, 87, of Edenton, NC, died Friday, March 13, 2020 in Three Rivers Health & Rehabilitation, Windsor.

   Mrs. Powell was born in Norfolk, VA on October 8, 1932, and was the daughter of the late Kader Hoskins Harrell and Sabra Bertha Pritchett Harrell. Retired after 25 years of employment with the Edenton-Chowan Public School System, she was...

Gary Russell

Gary Russell

Mar 13, 2020

   Thomas Gary Russell, 70, of 132 Long Lane, Edenton, NC, died Friday, March 13, 2020 in his home.

   Gary was born in Pasquotank County on January 25, 1950, and was the son of the late Thomas Story Russell and Shirley Harrell Russell Cox.

   An Army veteran of the Vietnam War, he had worked with Jimbo Jumbos in Edenton and with...

Norma Davy Welsh

Norma Davy Welsh

Mar 13, 2020

   Norma Jean Davy Welsh, 86, of 228 Cowpen Neck Road, Edenton, NC, died Friday, March 13, 2020 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.

   Mrs. Welsh was born in Cumberland, Maryland on August 15, 1933, and was the daughter of the late Roy and Vernie Chaney Davy. She had been employed in clerical and bookkeeping work, most notably with the Farm Bureau...

JoAnn Tedrick Saylor

JoAnn Tedrick Saylor

Mar 12, 2020

   JoAnn Veda Tedrick Saylor, 87, of Ranch Drive, Elizabeth City, NC, died Thursday, March 12, 2020 in Citadel Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.

   Mrs. Saylor was born in Akron, Ohio on December 19, 1932. The daughter of the late Herman C. and Mary Wilson Tedrick, she was raised by her foster parents, Carl and Bert Nelson.

   A retired teller with Akron...

Charles James Spruill

Charles James Spruill

Mar 10, 2020

   Charles James "Charlie" Spruill, 71, of Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Tuesday, March 10, 2020, in Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, Chesapeake, VA.

   Mr. Spruill was born in Chowan County on August 3, 1948, and was the son of the late Leonce Q. and Mattie Lee Kennedy Spruill. Employed for over 20 years with Foreman's Building Supply, he later retired from...

Jean White Ennis

Jean White Ennis

Mar 8, 2020

   Jean White Ennis, 77, of 307 Topsail Plantation Drive, Hampstead, NC, died Sunday, March 8, 2020 in her home.

   Mrs. Ennis was born in Chowan County on September 5, 1942, and was the daughter of the late Jesse Wince White, Sr. and Minnie Bass White. She had worked for 10 years in Child Nutrition with the Edenton-Chowan School System and...

Edna Morris Matthews

Edna Morris Matthews

Mar 6, 2020

   Edna Rae Morris Matthews, 80, of 605 Morris Ford Road, Colerain, NC, passed away Friday, March 6, 2020, in Roanoke Landing Health and Rehabilitation Center, Plymouth.

   Mrs. Matthews was born in Bertie County on June 11, 1939, and was the daughter of the late Sebron C. and Foye Jernigan Morris. A retired self-employed farmer, she was a member of Mars...

Truman McDowell Greene

Truman McDowell Greene

Mar 6, 2020

   Truman McDowell Greene, a retired farmer, died March 6, 2020, at Northampton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Jackson, NC. He was 94 and a lifelong resident of the Eure community of Gates County.

   Truman was grateful for his long journey on this Earth. He treasured his Christian faith, his 68-year marriage to his wife, Lillian "Kitty," and his family. He...

Frances Vaughan Matchell

Frances Vaughan Matchell

Mar 4, 2020

   Frances Vaughan “Fran” Matchell, 74, of Paradise Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, March 4, 2020, in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.

   Mrs. Matchell was born in Bertie County on August 14, 1945, and was the daughter of the late Grady Lassie Vaughan and Selene Nowell “Big Mama” Vaughan. A homemaker, she was a member of Cape Colony Church of Christ.

   In...

Evelyn Williams Martin Luton

Evelyn Williams Martin Luton

Feb 26, 2020

   Evelyn Williams Martin Luton, 103, of Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Wednesday, February 26, 2020.

   A private service will be held. Miller & Van Essendelft, Funeral and Cremation Providers, 1125 Harvey Point Road, Hertford, is assisting the family with arrangements, and online condolences may be made by visiting www.millerfhc.com.

Tommy Williams

Tommy Williams

Feb 26, 2020

   Thomas Aaron "Tommy" Williams, 28, of Sailway Court, Hertford, NC, passed away Wednesday, February 26, 2020.

   Born in Baltimore, MD, on March 7, 1991, he was the son of Paul Ray, Jr. and Jennifer Robinson Williams. He was employed in residential construction and remodeling.

   Surviving in addition to his parents are his son, Gage Allen Williams and his mother, Krystina...

Teresa Lepley Linhardt

Teresa Lepley Linhardt

Feb 25, 2020

   Teresa Marie Lepley Linhardt, 67, of 312 Cayuga Trail, Edenton, NC, died Tuesday, February 25, 2020, in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.

   Mrs. Linhardt was born in Myersville, Pennsylvania on November 16, 1952 and was the daughter of the late Robert Nathan “Bob” Lepley and Dorothy Griffin Lepley. She was a wife, mother, and homemaker.

   Surviving are her husband of 27...

Karen Small Fleetwood

Karen Small Fleetwood

Feb 24, 2020

   Karen Ruth Small Fleetwood, 63, of 118 Cove Drive, Edenton, NC, died Monday, February 24, 2020, in her home where she was being cared for by her family.

   Karen was born in Chowan County on December 2, 1956, and was the daughter of the late Claude Ernest Small, Sr. and Dorothy Evans Small. A retired Social Worker with Vidant Chowan...

Dee Goss

Dee Goss

Feb 23, 2020

   Dian Embury "Dee" Goss, of Hertford, NC, passed away on Sunday, February 23, 2020 in the Vidant Inpatient Hospice House in Greenville, where she was surrounded by her loving family following a long battle with mantle cell lymphoma.

   Surviving are her devoted husband, David, of 54 years; her three children, Jennifer Spring and her husband Scott of Boston, MA, Benjamin...

John Arthur Lee

John Arthur Lee

Feb 23, 2020

   John Arthur Lee, 80, of 200 Robin Lane, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, February 23, 2020, in Vidant Chowan Hospital.

   Mr. Lee was born in Chowan County on February 15, 1940, and was the son of the late Arthur Miller Lee and Ida Bell Spruill Lee. A retired supervisor with Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock, he was a member of Piney...

Alice Ammons Winslow

Alice Ammons Winslow

Feb 22, 2020

   Alice Ann Ammons Winslow, 73, of 128 Cypress Road, Merry Hill, NC, died Saturday, February 22, 2020, in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton.

   Mrs. Winslow was born in Atlanta, GA on March 11, 1946, and was the daughter of the late Clarence Cicero Ammons and Lucille McCorkle Ammons. She loved the Chowan River and to travel, enjoying touring extensively throughout Europe,...

R. H. "Nick" Barnes

R. H. "Nick" Barnes

Feb 21, 2020

   Raymond Harry “Nick” Barnes, 85, of 102 Long Ridge Road, Plymouth, NC, died Friday, February 21, 2020, in Vidant Inpatient Hospice, Greenville.

   Mr. Barnes was born in Martin County on September 26, 1934, and was the son of the late James Walter Barnes, Sr. and Tillie Marie Barber Barnes. A retired Boiler Room Operator with Weyerhaeuser Corp. in Plymouth after...

Bell Elliott

Bell Elliott

Feb 21, 2020

   Minnie Bell Elliott departed this earthly life and went to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Friday, February 21, 2020, at the age of 94.  She had been a resident of Brandermill Woods Health Care Center in Midlothian, Virginia, for the past 4 years.

   Bell was born on May 12, 1925, the youngest of six children born...

Donald Ray Andrade

Donald Ray Andrade

Feb 21, 2020

   Donald Ray Andrade, 82, of 337 Riverfront Drive, Hertford, NC, died Friday, February 21, 2020, in his home.

   Mr. Andrade was born in Contra Costa, California on November 4, 1937, and was the son of the late Benjamin and Helen Johnson Andrade. A retired firefighter with the City of Richmond, CA Fire Department, he was a faithful member of St....

Emmett Elliott Winborne, Sr.

Emmett Elliott Winborne, Sr.

Feb 19, 2020

   Emmett Elliott Winborne, Sr., 65, of 3343 Rocky Hock Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, February 19, 2020, in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.

   Mr. Winborne was born in Chowan County on June 29, 1954, and was the son of the late William Hutchins “Hutch” Winborne and Hurley Bunch Winborne. Retired after 34 years of farming, he also had been a poultry...

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