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Thomas Stephen Brennan, III

Thomas Stephen Brennan, III

Jan 4, 2020

 

   Thomas Stephen Brennan, III, 75, of 120 New River Drive, Hertford, NC, died Saturday, January 4, 2020, in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.

   Mr. Brennan was born in New Jersey on June 7, 1944, and was the son of the late Thomas Stephen, II and Edith Villani Brennan. A retired sergeant, he had served with the Irvington Police Department in...

Alanah Nicole Warner

Alanah Nicole Warner

Jan 1, 2020

   Alanah Nicole Warner, 5 months of age, of Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Wednesday, January 1, 2020.

   Born in Norfolk, VA on July 31, 2019, she was the daughter of Johnathan Fraley and Amber Warner of Elizabeth City.

   Surviving in addition to her parents are her three sisters, Lillian, Farrah, and Maleah; a brother, Tyler; maternal grandparents, Michael and Thelma...

Margie Stallings Monds

Margie Stallings Monds

Dec 31, 2019

   Margie Hortense Stallings Monds, 86, of 798 Acorn Hill Road, Hobbsville, NC, died Tuesday, December 31, 2019, in Accordius Health & Rehabilitation, Gatesville.

   Mrs. Monds was born in Gates County on December 27, 1933, and was the daughter of the late Kemrial Rudolph Stallings, Sr. and Minnie Belle Ralph Stallings. Retired from George C. Moore Company after 35 years of...

Gail Umphlett White

Gail Umphlett White

Dec 30, 2019

   Gail Mann Umphlett White, 46, of 527 Gliden Road, Hobbsville, NC, died Monday, December 30, 2019, in Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

   Gail was born in Suffolk, Virginia on September 28, 1973, and was the daughter of the late Floyd Riddick “Bump” Umphlett and Rebecca Mann Umphlett. A graduate of Nansemond Suffolk Academy, and later with a Bachelors from Longwood University,...

James Nelson Stalls

James Nelson Stalls

Dec 29, 2019

   James Nelson Stalls, 68, of 1565 NC 137, Eure, NC, died Sunday, December 29, 2019, in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.

   Mr. Stalls was born in Martin County on June 17, 1951, and was the son of Beulah Mae Mobley Stalls of Eure and the late Bruce Nelson Stalls. Retired from the Avionics division of Gulfstream Corporation, he was an Army...

Dorothy Connell Cooke Lavoie

Dorothy Connell Cooke Lavoie

Dec 29, 2019

   Dorothy Connell Cooke Lavoie, 89, of 640 Chambers Ferry Road, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, December 29, 2019, in her home.

   Mrs. Lavoie was born in Mecklenburg County on September 2, 1930, and was the daughter of the late David Arthur and Mae Bostic Connell.

   A “stay at home mom”, when her youngest child went to school, so did she, becoming...

Kathleen Wildrick Farrell

Kathleen Wildrick Farrell

Dec 29, 2019

   Kathleen Ann Wildrick Farrell, 79, of Medical Arts Drive, Edenton, NC, and a former resident of the Arrowhead community, died Sunday, December 29, 2019, in Edenton House Assisted Living.

   Mrs. Farrell was born in Syracuse, New York on August 1, 1940, and was the daughter of the late Francis and Dorothy Fern Goettel Wildrick. A homemaker, she had been a...

Wayne Stallings

Wayne Stallings

Dec 26, 2019

   Delton Wayne Stallings, 68, of Cary, NC, passed away Thursday, December 26, 2019, in his home.

   Mr. Stallings was born in Chowan County on September 14, 1951, and was the son of Faye Symons Stallings of Hertford, and the late Delton "Bake" Stallings. The owner and operator of Stallings Construction Company, he was a member of Whiteville Grove Baptist Church...

Jimmy Charles Darnell

Jimmy Charles Darnell

Dec 26, 2019

   Jimmy Charles Darnell, 47, of 276 Deep Creek Road, Hertford, NC, passed away Thursday, December 26, 2019.

   Born in Pasquotank County on January 2, 1972, he was the son of Carolyn Dail Darnell of Hertford and the late James Earl Darnell. A wonderful son, husband, father, and brother, he was a firm believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, and had...

Gladys Welch Motley

Gladys Welch Motley

Dec 23, 2019

   Gladys Mae Welch Motley, 87, of 203 Ballahack Road, Hertford, NC, passed away Monday, December 23, 2019, in Edenton House.

   Mrs. Motley was born in Perquimans County on September 8, 1932, and was the daughter of the late Archie and Linnie Hudson Welch. A homemaker, she was a member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Winfall. In addition...

Morton Downey

Morton Downey

Dec 22, 2019

   Morton Downey, 92, of Paradise Road, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, December 22, 2019, in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.

   Mr. Downey was born in Clay County, Kentucky on October 8, 1927, and was the son of the late Henry Downey and Lucy Witt Downey McDaniel. A retired cook in Tug Boat Operations, he had served in both the US...

Carolyn Jane Gray Jernigan

Carolyn Jane Gray Jernigan

Dec 22, 2019

   Carolyn Jane Gray Jernigan, 82, of 820 US Hwy 13 North, Gates, NC, died Sunday, December 22, 2019, in her home.

   Mrs. Jernigan was born in Franklin, Virginia, on October 23, 1937, and was the daughter of the late Bennie Charles and Minnie Story Gray. A homemaker, she had worked for many years at Woody’s Used Cars in Chesapeake, VA,...

Bobby Lee Grimes, Jr.

Bobby Lee Grimes, Jr.

Dec 20, 2019

   Bobby Lee Grimes, Jr., 66, of 311 South Broad Street, Apt. 1, Edenton, NC, died Friday, December 20, 2019, while playing golf with his buddies.

   Bobby was born in Forsyth County on April 10, 1953, and was the son of the late Bobby Lee Grimes, Sr. and Peggy Ann Cox Grimes. A retired electrician from the Elizabeth City Coast Guard...

Beulah Lane Rountree

Beulah Lane Rountree

Dec 19, 2019

   Beulah Lane Rountree, 91, of 746 Okisko Road, Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Thursday, December 19, 2019, in her home.

   Mrs. Rountree was born in Perquimans County on December 22, 1927, and was the daughter of the late James Louis and Queen Elizabeth Trueblood Lane. Retired from the Elizabeth City Cotton Mill, she attended Parksville Pentecostal Holiness Church as long...

James Earl Hollis

James Earl Hollis

Dec 18, 2019

   James Earl Hollis, 45, of Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, December 18, 2019, in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.

   Mr. Hollis was born on July 10, 1974, in Warren County. He had worked in the construction industry.

   Surviving are his mother, Anne Hutchins Sawyer and husband, Thomas, of Elizabeth City; his father, Arnold Lee Hollis and wife, Barbara, of Columbia, SC; his...

Donnie Langston

Donnie Langston

Dec 18, 2019

   Donald Wayne “Donnie” Langston, 80, of 600 Union Branch Road, Corapeake, NC, and formerly of Suffolk, VA, passed away Wednesday, December 18, 2019, in his home.

   Mr. Langston was born in Suffolk on April 2, 1939, and was the son of the late J. Wardell and Clio Pearl Hill Langston. A retired pipefitter from Norfolk Naval Shipyard, he grew up...

Elaine Hughes Smyth

Elaine Hughes Smyth

Dec 16, 2019

   Joyce Elaine Hughes Smyth, 74, of 258 Drum Hill Road, Corapeake, NC, died Monday, December 16, 2019, in her home.

   Elaine was born in Portsmouth, Virginia on August 30, 1945, and was the daughter of the late Charles Evans Hughes and Ruth Wilkins Hughes. A Licensed Practical Nurse, she worked for over 30 years, and retired after suffering a stroke...

Judith Ann Bailey Wells

Judith Ann Bailey Wells

Dec 15, 2019

   Judith Ann Bailey Wells, 79, of 102 Terry Avenue, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, December 15, 2019, in Vidant Chowan Hospital.

   Mrs. Wells was born in Akron, Ohio, on September 11, 1940, and was the daughter of the late Harold W. and Martha Eleanor Olson Bailey. A June 1962 graduate of Kent State University with a Bachelor of Science degree, she...

Brenda Johnson Byrum

Brenda Johnson Byrum

Dec 15, 2019

   Brenda Kay Johnson Byrum, 62, of 214A River Road, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, December 15, 2019, in her home.

   Brenda was born in Hertford County on June 7, 1957, and was the daughter of Jacqueline Kay Weeks of Chesapeake, VA and the late Thomas Gilbert “Slick Willie” Johnson, Jr. and his wife, the late Rosa Louise Byrum Johnson. Employed with...

Ann Carter Harris

Ann Carter Harris

Dec 13, 2019

   Harriet Ann Carter Harris, 82, of 416 N. Mitchell Street, Ahoskie, NC, died Friday, December 13, 2019, in Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital.

   Mrs. Harris was born in Norfolk, Virginia on April 24, 1937, and was the daughter of the late Marvin Besserick Carter and Lillian Lucille Powell Carter. A Greeter at Walmart of Ahoskie for over 20 years, she was known...

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