Patricia Cooper Bivens

 Patricia Cooper “Pat” Bivens, 80, of 502 Center Hill Road, Tyner, NC, died Saturday, November 23, 2024, in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Edenton.

 Mrs. Bivens was born in Kansas City, Missouri on January 16, 1944, and was one of eight children born to the late Denzil and Marion Allnutt Cooper. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by sisters, Nancy Schiskie, Sharon Gordon, and Delaine Cosgrove; and by brothers, infant Reuben Dee Cooper and Denzil “Scooter” Cooper.

 A retired vice president from Summs Skip Collateral Solutions where she worked for 57 years, she had been an active member of Credit Professionals International where she had served as treasurer and as president of the Norfolk, VA chapter. Other areas of enjoyment included her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution. Pat was proud of her military service to the nation through the United States Navy where she worked in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG). 

 Surviving is her husband, Jesse Ray Bivens; two sisters, Cheryl Lynn Johnson of Brownsburg, IN and Donna Maye Smith of Princeton, MO; and several nieces, nephews, and extended members of both the Cooper and Bivens families.

 Funeral services will be held Tuesday, November 26th, at 11:00 a.m. in Faith Pentecostal Holiness Church and will be conducted by Pastor Danny Gurganus. A private burial will be later that afternoon in West Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Elizabeth City. Friends may visit with the family on Monday from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Home and Crematory, 735 Virginia Road, Edenton, and all other times at the home of Beth and Mike Jarvis, 105 Wampanoag Trail in the Arrowhead Beach community.

 Online condolences may be made by visiting www.millerfhc.com.