Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
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),...
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...
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....
Maggie Casper Monds
Nov 6, 2017
Maggie Lee Casper Monds, 88, of Gatesville, NC, passed away on Monday, November 6, 2017, in Gates House Assisted Living.
Mrs. Monds was born in Chowan County on November 26, 1928, and was the daughter of the late Arthur Lee and Sally Mary Owens Casper. A homemaker, she was a member of Eure Christian Church.
In addition to...
Joyce Curry Esbensen
Nov 6, 2017
Joyce Curry Esbensen, 74, of Albemarle Blvd., Hertford, NC, passed away Monday, November 6, 2017 in Sentara Princess Anne Hospital, Virginia Beach, VA.
Mrs. Esbensen was born in Washington, D.C. on February 28, 1943, and was the daughter of the late Joseph Auford Curry and Pearl Grimes Ritondale. A retired executive assistant from Exxon Mobil, she attended both St....
Frederick Joseph Leeman
Nov 5, 2017
Frederick Joseph Leeman, 67, of Brickhouse Lane, Elizabeth City, NC, died Sunday, November 5, 2017 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center. Mr. Leeman was born in Allegheny County, PA on October 28, 1950, and was the son of the late Vincent Oswald Leeman, Jr. and Kathleen Roma Brock Leeman. A carpenter, he was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ...
Betty White Worrell
Nov 4, 2017
Betty Lou White Worrell, 79, of 638 Lackey Mountain Road, Hiddenite, NC, and formerly of Suffolk, VA, and the Arrowhead Beach community of Chowan County, passed away on Saturday, November 4, 2017, at the home of her daughter in Harmony.
Mrs. Worrell was born in Gates County on January 23, 1938, and was the daughter of the late Lloyd...
Carlton Nixon Perry
Nov 4, 2017
Carlton Nixon Perry, of 906 Chambers Ferry Road, Edenton, NC, passed away on Saturday, November 4, 2017. He was 79 years old.
Born on December 23, 1937, in Perquimans County, he was the son of the late Bristoe and Louise Nixon Perry. The family moved to Chowan County when he was a young child and he resided there for...
Jack Shepard Hardison, Sr.
Nov 2, 2017
Jack Shepard Hardison, Sr., 78, of 212 Oak Hill Drive, Edenton, NC, passed away on Thursday, November 2, 2017, in Vidant Inpatient Hospice, Greenville.
Mr. Hardison was born on April 10, 1939, and was the son of the late Willie Louis and Agnes Spruill Hardison. A retired Captain with the North Carolina State Highway Patrol, he served the state...
Olivia Chappell Freeman
Nov 2, 2017
Olivia Mae Chappell Freeman, 93, of 123 Newberry Landing, Roper, NC, passed away on Thursday, November 2, 2017, in her home.
Mrs. Freeman was born in Perquimans County on December 30, 1923, and was the daughter of the late William H. and Elizabeth Balzora Elliott Chappell. The retired manager of the Norfolk General Nutrition Corp. Store, she had also...
Cecil Edward Winslow
Nov 2, 2017
Cecil Edward Winslow, 88, of 723 Gaston Drive, Hertford, NC, died Thursday, November 2, 2017, in the Palliative Care Unit at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville.
Mr. Winslow was born in Perquimans County on February 27, 1929, and was the son of the late Cecil Calvert and Lucille Brothers Winslow.
Football was one of Mr. Winslow’s passions having...
Henry Milton Copeland
Nov 2, 2017
Henry Milton Copeland, 79, of 1196 Beech Springs Road, Tyner, NC, died Thursday, November 2, 2017 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Mr. Copeland was born in Perquimans County on July 29, 1938, and was the son of the late Alvin Glenwood and Mary Christine Ellis Copeland. A heavy equipment operator, he retired from Weyerhaeuser following more than 26...
Jesse Willard East
Oct 31, 2017
Jesse Willard East, 88, formerly of Grubb Street, Herford, NC died Tuesday, October 31, 2017 in Concordia Transitional Health and Rehabilitation, Elizabeth City.
Mr. East was born in Camden County on August 26, 1929, and was the son of the late Walter L. and Minerva Little East. He was a retired carpenter. In addition to his parents, he was preceded...
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