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Marjorie Mathias Duck

Marjorie Mathias Duck

Nov 29, 2017

   Marjorie Mathias Duck, 83, of 189 Rountree Lane, Gatesville, NC, died Wednesday, November 29, 2017 in Accordius Health and Rehabilitation, Gatesville.

 

   Mrs. Duck was born in Gates County on May 27, 1934, and was the daughter of the late Wallace Lee and Ellie Enora Mathias. A homemaker, she was a member of Zion United Methodist Church. In addition to...

Connie Dail Russell

Connie Dail Russell

Nov 28, 2017

     Connie Dail Russell, 70, of 1120 New Hope Road, Hertford, NC, died Tuesday, November 28, 2017 in Sentara Hospice House, Virginia Beach, VA.

   Ms. Russell was born in Pasquotank County on May 13, 1947, and was the daughter of the late Alonzo Edward and Ada Jane Hassell Dail. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her...

Henry Lee Britt

Henry Lee Britt

Nov 27, 2017

   Henry Lee Britt, 63, of Sunbury, NC, died Monday, November 27, 2017 in his home.

    Mr. Britt was born in Suffolk, VA on September 10, 1954, and was the son of Mary Bessie Winslow Britt King of Suffolk and the late Henry Augustus Britt. Retired from Norfolk Naval Shipyard, he was an avid fisherman, and enjoyed tinkering and being involved...

John Jacob Barnes, Jr.

John Jacob Barnes, Jr.

Nov 26, 2017

   John Jacob Barnes, Jr. 91, of Parker's Church Road, Corapeake, NC, died Sunday, November 26, 2017.

 

  Mr. Barnes, known as “John, Jr.” and “Buddy Barnes”, was born in Suffolk, VA on August 5, 1926, and was the son of the late John Jacob Barnes, Sr. and Julia Ellis Barnes Watkins. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in...

Nancy Leigh Stallings

Nancy Leigh Stallings

Nov 26, 2017

   Nancy Leigh Stallings, 87, formerly of the Sandy Cross community of Gates County, NC, and in recent years a resident of Staunton, VA, passed away on Sunday, November 26, 2017, in the Kings Daughters Community Health & Rehabilitation Center in Staunton.

 

   Miss Stallings was born in Portsmouth, Virginia on October 14, 1930, and was a daughter of the late...

Laura Brewin Sawyer

Laura Brewin Sawyer

Nov 25, 2017

   Laura Ainsley Brewin Sawyer, 47, of 108 N. Covent Garden Street, Hertford, NC,  passed away peacefully Saturday, November 25, 2017 in her home with her husband by her side.

    A native of Perquimans County, she was born August 26, 1970, and was the daughter of David Brewin of Cullowhee and the late Margaret Ainsley Brewin. A loving wife, mother, daughter,...

Alice Faye Williams Jones

Alice Faye Williams Jones

Nov 21, 2017

   Alice Faye Williams Jones, 76, of 131 Shannonhouse Road, Edenton, NC, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday, November 21, 2017, at Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.

 

   Faye was born in Pasquotank County on November 30, 1940, and was the daughter of the late Alton Williams and Mary Wright Williams Goodwin. In addition to her parents, she...

Clarine Whedbee Stallings

Clarine Whedbee Stallings

Nov 20, 2017

   Clarine Whedbee Stallings, 92, formerly of Acorn Hill Road in the Sandy Cross community of Gates County, passed away on Monday, November 20, 2017, in Laurel Park Nursing Center, Stockbridge, GA.

   Mrs. Stallings was born in Perquimans County on September 27, 1925, and was the daughter of the late Ervin W. and Minnie Harrell Whedbee.  A retired seamstress with South...

Lola Bauer Satterfield

Lola Bauer Satterfield

Nov 19, 2017

   Lola Marie Bauer Satterfield, 91, formerly of Artie Street, Hertford, NC, and more recently of Maroon Bells Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO, passed away Sunday, November 19, 2017 in Life Quality Home, Colorado Springs.    Mrs. Satterfield was born in Long Prairie, MN on August 26, 1926, and was the daughter of the late Peter N. and Loretta Escher Bauer.  Retired from...

Richard Tennyson Reid, II

Richard Tennyson Reid, II

Nov 19, 2017

   Richard Tennyson Reid, II, 58, of 123 Brayhall Road, Edenton, NC, passed away on Sunday, November 19, 2017, in his home.

   Mr. Reid was born in Hertford County on March 17, 1959, and was the son of the late Richard Tennyson Reid and Dorothy Ann Archer Reid Drew. A retired Deputy Sheriff with the Chesapeake, VA Sheriff’s Department, years earlier...

John Merlin Rice

John Merlin Rice

Nov 18, 2017

   John Merlin Rice, 85, of 215 Rivers Edge Lane, Edenton, NC, passed away on Saturday, November 18, 2017, in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.

   Mr. Rice was born in South Bend, Indiana, on April 16, 1932, and was the son of the late Merlin and Margaret Rice.  Retired from the United States Navy as a Boiler Tender Chief (E-8),...

Josephine Edwards Truesdail

Josephine Edwards Truesdail

Nov 16, 2017

   Josephine Bernice Edwards Truesdail, 97, of 1011 US 158 West, Gates, NC, passed away on Thursday, November 16, 2017, in her home.

 

   Mrs. Truesdail was born in Owego, New York on August 26, 1920, and was the daughter of the late Jack and Mabel Edwards. Retired from Endicott-Johnson Shoe Manufacturing, she was a Baptist by faith.

 

   In addition...

Artelia Lamb Hobbs

Artelia Lamb Hobbs

Nov 16, 2017

   Artelia Lamb Hobbs, 94, of 428 Hobbsville Road, Hobbsville, NC, passed away on Thursday, November 16, 2017, in her home.

 

   Mrs. Hobbs was born in Perquimans County on August 5, 1923, and was the daughter of the late Benjamin Lamb and Sophronia Boyce Lamb Chappell. A homemaker, she was a faithful member of Hobbsville Baptist Church where she had...

Ruby Wheeler Vopelak

Ruby Wheeler Vopelak

Nov 15, 2017

   Ruby Ann Wheeler Vopelak, 86, of Paradise Road, Edenton, NC, passed away on Wednesday, November 15, 2017, in Vidant Chowan Hospital.

 

   Mrs. Vopelak was born in Chowan County on September 21, 1931, and was the last surviving of 11 children born to the late Doppie and Lillie Gay Wheeler. Formerly employed as a nurse’s aide at Chowan Hospital, for...

Ernest Rawls "Buck" Carter

Ernest Rawls "Buck" Carter

Nov 12, 2017

 

 

 

   Ernest Rawls “Buck” Carter, age 90, of Powellsville, North Carolina, died Sunday, November 12, 2017, at home, after battling lymphoma since being diagnosed in January.

 

   He was born in Ahoskie on September 1, 1927, the son of Ernest Randolph “Pop” Carter and Lucie Tayloe Carter. He wed Rebecca “Becky” Edwards of Franklin, Virginia, on August 19,...

Dottie Owens

Dottie Owens

Nov 11, 2017

   Dorothy Idell "Dottie" Royals Owens, 81, of 107 Choctaw Trail, Edenton, NC, passed away Saturday, November 11, 2017, in Vidant Chowan Hospital.

 

   Mrs. Owens was born in South Bend, Indiana on July 25, 1936, and was the daughter of the late Edgar Louis Royals, Sr. and Grace Jackson Royals.

 

   In addition to her parents, she was preceded in...

Linda Varin Lane

Linda Varin Lane

Nov 10, 2017

   Linda Lee Varin Lane of Edenton, NC, passed away on Friday, November 10, 2017, in her home where she was surrounded by her family.

 

   Linda was born in Franklin, NJ, the only child of Clifford V. and Bessie M. Varin. A retired teacher and Human Resource Manager, she was involved in the community with the Woman’s Club, the Cupola...

Bernice Parker Myrick

Bernice Parker Myrick

Nov 9, 2017

   Bernice Lee Parker Myrick, 92, a resident of Chowan River Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Edenton, NC, passed away on Thursday, November 9, 2017, in Vidant Chowan Hospital.

 

   Mrs. Myrick was born on May 17, 1925 in the Mapleton, NC community of Hertford County, and was the daughter of the late Dorsey and Emily Artis Parker. For many years...

Reberta Hargis Harrell

Reberta Hargis Harrell

Nov 8, 2017

   Reberta Ann Hargis Harrell, 70, of Hertford, NC, passed away Wednesday, November 8, 2017 in her home.

 

   Mrs. Harrell was born in Bristol County, MA on December 28, 1946, and was the daughter of the late Melvin Ellis Hargis, Sr. and Mary Constance Lucianno Hargis. She was a retired floral designer with Sea Mark Foods in Nags Head having...

Cecil Gilbert Byrum

Cecil Gilbert Byrum

Nov 7, 2017

   A man, known to many of his family and friends as “Cecil Bud”, or “The Goat Man”, passed away on Tuesday, November 7, 2017, at Prime Time Assisted Living.

   For the last four years, Cecil Gilbert Byrum, age 97, had lived at Prime Time, and for a short time at Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, both in Edenton, NC....

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