Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Essie McClenney Perry
May 11, 2017
Essie Merrill McClenney Perry, 80, of 114 W. Eden Street, Edenton, NC, passed away on Thursday, May 11, 2017 in Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital. Mrs. Perry was born in Chowan County on April 13, 1937, and was the daughter of the late Vernon and Essie Harrell McClenney. The retired office manager of Western Gas, she was a member of...
Harriet Switzer Bryan
May 8, 2017
Harriet Ann Switzer Bryan, 94, of Morris Circle, Edenton, NC, died Monday, May 8, 2017 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.
Mrs. Bryan was born in Baltimore, MD on May 15, 1922, and was the daughter of the late William and Mary Estelle White Switzer. A retired filing manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Philadelphia, PA, she was a member of St....
Edward Michael Fuehrer
May 8, 2017
Edward Michael Fuehrer, 76, of 513 Sam Allen Road, Roper, NC passed away Monday, May 8, 2017 in his home where he was surrounded by his loving family.
Mr. Fuehrer was born in Queens, NY on August 7, 1940, and was the son of the late Charles and Marion Piper Fuehrer and raised by Irene and Geraldine Joyce. A longtime...
Harry Ray Hill
May 6, 2017
Harry Ray Hill, 75, of Merry Hill, NC, died Saturday, May 6, 2017 in his home.
Mr. Hill was born in Essex County, NJ, and was the son of the late Harry Crabbe and Elizabeth Jordan Hill. A retired test engineer with Mack Trucks, he was an avid golfer.
Surviving are his wife of nearly 50 years, Diana Hill; a...
Lillian Farr Dahl
May 5, 2017
Lillian Farr Dahl was born in Colonia, NJ in 1921, later lived in Boonsboro, MD, Virginia Beach VA, Greensboro and Washington, NC before finally settling in Edenton, NC. Daughter of the late William T. Farr and Margaret B. Farr, she married George M. Dahl in 1945 and enjoyed 66 years of marriage. During their 1945 Honeymoon in NYC they witnessed...
E. Ray Halfhill, Jr.
May 5, 2017
Emmett Ray Halfhill, Jr., 70, of 1014 B Deep Run Lane, Tyner, NC, died Friday, May 5, 2017 in Chowan River Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Edenton.
Mr. Halfhill was born in Beaufort County on December 13, 1946, and was the son of the late Emmett Ray, Sr. and Effie Viola Davis Halfhill. A retired truck driver from Jordan...
Eva Wrae Landing
May 2, 2017
Eva Wrae Winslow Landing, 90, of 729 Whedbee Drive, Hertford, NC, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, in her home where she was surrounded by her family.
Mrs. Landing was born in Perquimans County on September 5, 1926, and was the daughter of the late Thomas Robert and Nora Layden Winslow. The retired bookkeeper of Landing Supply...
Linda Gibbs Burroughs
May 1, 2017
Linda Gibbs Burroughs, 73, of Edenton, NC, passed away on Monday, May 1, 2017, in the Service League of Greenville Inpatient Hospice.
Linda was born in Norfolk, VA on July 20, 1943, and was the daughter of the late June Donovan and Ronnie Gibbs. A graduate of Norview High School in Norfolk, she began a career working in the...
Estelle Jones Buck
Apr 30, 2017
Estelle Jones Buck, 91, of Hazelton Road, Gates, NC, passed away peacefully on Sunday morning, April 30, 2017, in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, VA.
Mrs. Buck was born in Gates County on October 6, 1925, and was the daughter of Button and Mary Caroline Jones. A homemaker and farmer’s wife who worked tobacco with her husband, she was a...
Jimmy Wayne Wilder, Sr.
Apr 29, 2017
Jimmy Wayne Wilder, Sr., 72, of 815 Wynne Fork Road, Hertford, NC, died Saturday, April 29, 2017 in his home following a year long battle with cancer.
Mr. Wilder was born in Gates County on May 15, 1944, and was the son of the late Charlie Elmer and Louise White Wilder. A beloved husband, father, grandfather, and brother, he...
A.C. Layden
Apr 28, 2017
Ambrose Carroll “A.C.” Layden, 72, of 1713 Belvidere Road, Belvidere, NC, passed away on Friday, April 28, 2017 in his home.
Mr. Layden was born in Perquimans County on November 14, 1944, and was the son of the late Norman Floyd and Clara Virginia Nixon Layden. Retiring in 1993 as a Logistics Management Specialist with Norfolk Naval Shipyard after...
Teresa Mason
Apr 27, 2017
Teresa Annette Davis Mason, 57, of 311 Pocahontas Trail, Edenton, NC, passed away on Thursday, April 27, 2017, in her home.
Teresa was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was the daughter of the late Charles Sylvester Davis and Madge Kohler Davis. A Catholic by faith, she had served in the United States Navy where she was trained and...
Meggan Lee Callahan
Apr 26, 2017
Meggan Lee Callahan, 29, a Sergeant with the NC Department of Public Safety, Division of Prisons, was killed in the line of duty, on Wednesday, April 26, 2017, at the Bertie Correctional Institution in Windsor, NC.
Sgt. Callahan was born on May 23, 1987, in South County, Rhode Island, had worked with the Department of Corrections since 2012, and...
Hazel Jordan Davis
Apr 21, 2017
Hazel Jordan Davis, 96, of Ryland Road, Tyner, NC, died Friday, April 21, 2017, in Edenton House.
Mrs. Davis was born in Tyner on January 15, 1921, and was the daughter of the late Ollie Norman and Annie Chappell Jordan. A beloved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and sister, she retired from Gregory’s Five & Dime Department Store in Hertford,...
Rick Bruce
Apr 20, 2017
Errol Richard “Rick” Bruce, 73, of 227 Tranquility Lane, Hertford, NC, died Thursday, April 20, 2017 in his home.
Mr. Bruce was born in Westbrook, ME on September 28, 1943, and was the son of the late Wallace Morton and Rita Berthiaume Bruce. A Vietnam veteran, he retired as a Master Chief with the US Navy following more than...
Anthony Eden Stephenson
Apr 17, 2017
Anthony Eden “Tony” Stephenson, 78, of 248 Tuscarora Beach Road, Winton, NC, passed away on Monday, April 17, 2017, in his home where he was surrounded by his family.
Mr. Stephenson was born in Hertford County on December 18, 1938, and was the son of the late Fred and Betty Ruth Long Stephenson. A retired maintenance superintendent from Union...
Rick Dean
Apr 16, 2017
Earl Hendricks “Rick” Dean, 70, of 1031 NC Hwy 37 North, Gates, NC, passed away on Sunday, April 16, 2017, in his home.
Rick was born in St. Louis County, Missouri, and was the son of the late Earl H., Sr. and Helen Meredith Dean. A retired driver with Howell’s Motor Freight, he was a member of Kittrell’s United...
Sheila Yvonne Bivens
Apr 16, 2017
Sheila Yvonne Bivens, 63, of Center Hill Road, Tyner, NC, passed away on Sunday, April 16, 2017, in Vidant Roanoke Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie.
Miss Bivens was born in Norfolk, VA on February 25, 1954, and was the daughter of the late Robert Ernest, Jr. and Maggie Ruth Johnson Bivens, former residents of Sligo. In addition to her parents, she...
Wilys King Taylor
Apr 14, 2017
Wilys King Taylor, 94, of Middle Swamp Road, Corapeake, NC, passed away peacefully on Friday, April 14, 2017, in Gates House Assisted Living, Gatesville.
Mrs. Taylor was born on December 21, 1922, in Portsmouth, VA and was the daughter of the late Junious Leb and Mary Baines King. A homemaker, prior to her marriage she was employed with Planter’s...
Lillian Thompson Hinds
Apr 14, 2017
Lillian Thompson “Honnie” Hinds, 93, of Moyock, NC, passed away peacefully on Friday, April 14, 2017 in Elizabeth City.
Born in Danville, VA on December 18, 1923, she was the daughter of the late James Henry and Margie Mills Thompson. A devoted wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, sister, and aunt, she was a devout Christian and a faithful member of...
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