Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
William "Bill" Smith Norfleet, Jr.
May 18, 2019
William Smith “Bill” Norfleet, Jr., 87, of 411 North Main Street, Roxobel, NC, passed away Saturday, May 18, 2019 in his home.
Mr. Norfleet was born in Bertie County on February 6, 1932, and was the son of the late William Smith, Sr. and Sally Cora Eason Norfleet. A graduate of Patterson Episcopal School in Lenoir, he was a farmer...
Nancy Hughes Cayton
May 16, 2019
Nancy Faye Hughes Cayton, 74, of 107 W. Carteret Street, Edenton, NC, passed away Thursday, May 16, 2019 in her home.
Mrs. Cayton was born in Bertie County on June 1, 1944, and was the daughter of the late James Cornelius and Ruby Pierce Hughes. Retired from Edenton Cotton Mill after 37 years of employment, she was a member of...
Marlene Jo Steadman
May 15, 2019
Marlene "Jo" Steadman, 85, of Hertford, NC, died Wednesday, May 15, 2019 in the Brian Center Health and Rehabilitation in Hertford.
Born in Sterling, IL on July 21, 1933, she was the daughter of the late Kenneth B. and Helene Becker Steadman. A graduate of Woodlawn Grade School and a 1951 graduate of Sterling High School, she completed her master's...
Freida Harris Durham
May 11, 2019
Freida Joan Harris Durham, 72, of 350 Evans-Bass Road, Edenton, NC, died Saturday, May 11, 2019 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.
Mrs. Durham was born February 11, 1947. A homemaker, she was a member of Rocky Hock Baptist Church.
Surviving are her friends and church family.
A memorial service will be held Friday at 4:00 p.m. in Rocky...
Lucy Alderman Bunch
May 11, 2019
Lucy Alderman “Sunshine” Bunch, 90, of Spring Arbor Assisted Living in Rocky Mount, NC, and formerly of Edenton, passed away on Saturday, May 11, 2019.
Mrs. Bunch was born in Orange County on November 16, 1928, and was the daughter of the late Jacob L. and Mary Goodwin Alderman. A homemaker, in later years after her sons were of age,...
Wood Beasley
May 11, 2019
Clarence Wood Beasley, 89, of 2702 Hwy 45 North, Colerain, NC, died Saturday, May 11, 2019, in his home.
Mr. Beasley was born in Edgecombe County on February 9, 1930, and was the son of the late Clarence Wood Beasley and Lucile Williams Beasley. Educated at St. Christopher’s in Richmond, VA, Staunton Military Academy in Staunton, VA, and Wake Forest...
Betty East Johnson
May 9, 2019
Betty Sue East Johnson, 77, of 306 Bosley Road, Sunbury, NC, passed away on Thursday, May 9, 2019, in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, VA.
Mrs. Johnson was born in Portsmouth, Virginia on June 19, 1941, and was the daughter of the late George W. and Sue Lee Ziegenhein East. A homemaker, in earlier years she was employed in Nutrition Services...
Dennis Michael O'Neill
May 7, 2019
Dennis Michael O’Neill, 75, of Edenton, NC, formerly of Morristown, NJ, ended his hard fought battle with a rare cancer on early Tuesday morning, May 7, 2019. He passed away in his wonderful home library, surrounded by his loving family and the books he treasured. He was born on December 8, 1943 in Washington, IN, to Timothy James and Mary...
Doris Brown Rodormer
May 6, 2019
Doris Brown Rodormer, 94, of Lighthouse Point, Florida, passed away peacefully on May 6, 2019, in Pompano Beach, Florida.
Mrs. Rodormer was born on October 22, 1924, in Greenville, NC, to Nannie Hudson Brown, (deceased December 1976), and Oscar Hubert Brown, (deceased February 1939). She was raised in Edenton and Greenville, NC with her two younger brothers, Oscar Hubert Brown,...
Goosie Chappell
May 6, 2019
Melvin Elmer Chappell, 85, of Hertford, NC, affectionately known as "Goosie", of 138 Goosie Lane, passed away peacefully early Monday morning, May 6, 2019, in his home where he was surrounded by his loving family.
Born on October 1, 1933, in the farming community of Belvidere, he was the fourth child of the late Elmer Eroy and Nellie Baccus Chappell....
Thomas Hoskins Shepard, Sr.
May 3, 2019
Thomas Hoskins Shepard, Sr., 94, of 155 Bowden Lane, passed away on Friday, May 3, 2019, in his home.
Mr. Shepard was born in Chowan County on March 16, 1925, and was the son of the late William Blount Shepard and Bessie Coke Hoskins Shepard. A graduate of East Carolina Teacher’s College, now East Carolina University, he had served as...
Audrey Lassiter Copeland
May 1, 2019
Audrey Lassiter Copeland, 91, formerly of Ryland Road, departed this life to be with her Lord and Savior, on Wednesday, May 1, 2019, at Bon Secours Maryview Nursing Care Center in Suffolk, VA.
Mrs. Copeland was born May 5, 1927 in Aulander, NC , the daughter of the late Emlis Tearthur Lassiter and Clyde Smith Lassiter. A homemaker, she was...
Martin Lewis White
May 1, 2019
Martin Lewis White, 73, of 112 Cypress Road, Merry Hill, NC, passed away Wednesday, May 1, 2019, in his home where he was surrounded by family.
Mr. White was born in Bertie County on February 27, 1946, and was the son of the late Louis Chesley and Josie Evans White. Retired from Robertson Ceco Corp. where he designed and built...
Deane Modlin Perry
Apr 29, 2019
Elvin Deane “Deanie” Modlin Perry, 86, of 076 Hill Lane Road, passed away peacefully in her home on Monday, April 29, 2019.
Mrs. Perry was born in Hertford County on July 3, 1932, and was the daughter of the late Clarence Elmer and Lula Caroline “Carrie” Hughson Modlin. After moving to Gates County as a teenager, she was a 1950...
Janis Comer Jordan
Apr 27, 2019
Janis Comer Jordan, 81, of Edenton, NC, passed away Saturday, April 27, 2019, in Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie.
Mrs. Jordan was born in Edenton on February 6, 1938, and was the daughter of the late George Washington and Ira Ruth Burns Comer. She was a retired owner and operator of a Montgomery Ward franchise and a J.C. Penney Catalog Store...
Betty Lou Cartwright Boyce
Apr 27, 2019
Betty Lou Cartwright Boyce, 76, of 192 Mill Road, Hertford, NC, passed from this life on Saturday, April 27, 2019 in the comfort of her home, where she was surrounded by her loving family.
Mrs. Boyce was born in Perquimans County on March 22, 1943, and was the daughter of the late Docky Cartwright and Fannie Dail Cartwright Stallings, and...
Richard Frances Bittner
Apr 27, 2019
Richard Frances Bittner, 86, of 160 Sunset Circle, Hertford, NC, died Saturday, April 27, 2019, in his home.
Mr. Bittner was born in Baltimore, MD on April 2, 1933, and was the son of the late Anton and Agnes Baburek Bittner. A retired merchandise manager from Montgomery Ward, he was a member of Hertford United Methodist Church. He was a...
Deborah Wypasek Palmer
Apr 26, 2019
Deborah Kay Wypasek Palmer, 61, of 110 Gliden Road, Hobbsville, NC, passed away on Friday, April 26, 2019 in Autumn Care of Chesapeake, VA.
Mrs. Palmer was born in Richmond, Virginia on February 25, 1958, and was the daughter of the late Andrew V. and Victoria Kowalski Wypasek. She was homemaker and a seamstress.
In addition to her parents, she...
Jerry Bradford DuBois
Apr 25, 2019
Jerry Bradford DuBois, 49, of 798 Acorn Hill Road, Hobbsville, NC, passed away on Thursday, April 25, 2019 in his home.
Jerry was born in Pasquotank County on October 23, 1969, and was the son of Cary Wilson DuBois of Hertford and Linda Monds DuBois of Hobbsville. He was an electrician.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by...
Shirley Smith Marshall
Apr 25, 2019
Shirley Ann Smith Marshall, 72, of Edenton, NC, died Thursday, April 25, 2019, in her son’s home in Portsmouth, VA.
Mrs. Marshall was born in Portsmouth on August 15, 1946, and was the daughter of the late James and Gladys Pearl Smith. A retired mold operator from General Electric in Suffolk, VA, she was a member of Immanuel Baptist Church...
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