Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Mary James Hardin
May 30, 2019
Mary Elizabeth James Hardin, 96, of Edenton Primetime Assisted Living, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, May 30, 2019.
Mrs. Hardin was born in Washington, NC on May 28, 1923, and was the daughter of the late Marvin William and Marie Tingle James. A homemaker, she was a member of Edenton United Methodist Church.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded...
Illa Pearl Freeman Parks
May 29, 2019
Illa Pearl Freeman Parks, 97, of Edenton Primetime Assisted Living, Edenton, NC, passed away on Wednesday, May 29, 2019.
Mrs. Parks was born in Bertie County on October 29, 1921, and was the youngest child and only daughter of the late Charlie H. and Nannie Jane Hughes Freeman. A homemaker, she had worked at George C. Moore Company, and was...
Stacey Gail Davis
May 28, 2019
Stacey Gail Davis, 47, of 753 Mount Hermon Church Road, Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Born in Chowan County on March 30, 1972, she was the daughter of Leonard and Debbie Hurdle Davis of Elizabeth City. She was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Freddie and Vivian Davis,...
David Thompson Bateman
May 27, 2019
David Thompson Bateman, 80, of 300 Wingfield Road, Tyner, NC, died Monday, May 27, 2019, in his home.
Mr. Bateman was born in Chowan County on August 23, 1938, and was the son of the late Benjamin F. and Grace Cale Bateman. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by brothers, Benny Cale Bateman and Jack D....
Rita Benton Stallings
May 24, 2019
Rita Gale Benton Stallings, 69, of 1089 Acorn Hill Road, Hobbsville, NC, died on Friday, May 24, 2019, at her home in Kill Devil Hills.
Rita was born in Gates County on May 11, 1950, and was the daughter of the late Lewis Milton and Maggie Powell Benton. A Program Technician with the USDA Farm Service Agency, she worked in...
Carol Gordon Hassell
May 23, 2019
Carol Gordon "Buster" Hassell, 70, of 1731 Harvey Point Road, Hertford, NC, died Thursday, May 23, 2019.
Born in Tyrrell County on October 4, 1948, he was the son of the late Judy Odell Hassell and Dolly Dixon Hassell Carlisle. He was self-employed in residential construction. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Ronald...
Frances Wood Drane Inglis
May 20, 2019
Frances D. Inglis of Edenton, NC died at her home May 20, 2019 surrounded by family. She was much loved by her family and community.
Frances was born to the Rev. Frederick Drane and Rebecca Wood Drane March 17, 1929. Her young life was at the family home, the Homestead, where she passed away. She grew up in Monroe...
Ellen Catherine Kerwin Gosnell
May 19, 2019
Ellen Catherine Kerwin Gosnell, 93, formerly of Pine Drive, Columbia, MD, passed away Sunday, May 19, 2019, in Edenton, NC.
Mrs. Gosnell was born in Leesburg, VA on October 2, 1925, and was the daughter of the late William Humphrey and Ellen Virginia Verts Kerwin. A member of First Baptist Church of Savage in Savage, MD, she had faithfully served...
Tim Joseph Adolph
May 19, 2019
Tim Joseph Adolph, 64, of 895 NC Hwy 32 N., Corapeake, NC, went to be with his dear heavenly Father on Sunday, May 19, 2019, from Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital.
Born in Columbus, OH on January 30, 1955, and raised in Smithfield, VA, he was the son of the late Leo Joseph and Ilean Sargent Adolph. Retired from the...
Faye Hart Carter Perry
May 19, 2019
Faye Hart Carter Perry, 85, of Suffolk, VA, died Sunday, May 19, 2019.
Mrs. Perry was born in Gates County, NC, and was the daughter of the late Stanley Hayes, Sr. and Laura Virginia Jones Carter. Retired from Bank of America, she was a member of Liberty Spring Christian Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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....
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,...
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