Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Emily Turner Harrell
Mar 31, 2016
Emily Turner Harrell, 107, formerly of Hertford, NC, and in recent years of Elizabeth City, passed away on Thursday, March 31, 2016 in Elizabeth City Health & Rehabilitation Center.
Mrs. Harrell was born in Chowan County on February 14, 1909, and was the daughter of the late Jerry Floyd and Lydia Dail Turner. A homemaker and self-employed seamstress, she...
Henry Harrison Overton
Mar 31, 2016
Henry Harrison Overton, 76, of 127 Shannonhouse Road, Edenton, NC, passed away on Thursday, March 31, 2016 in his home.
Mr. Overton was born in Hertford County on February 28, 1940 and was the son of the late George Henry and Lois Virginia Jordan Overton. Retired from helicopter maintenance with the US Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, he...
Patrick John Wemple
Mar 30, 2016
Patrick John Wemple, 64, of 624 Rocky Hock Creek Road, Edenton, NC, passed away on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 in Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC.
Mr. Wemple was born in Fort Benning, GA on May 3, 1951 and was the son of the late Earl Scott and Jean Hickey Wemple. He had retired after more than 33 years of...
William Franklin Rea, Sr.
Mar 30, 2016
William Franklin Rea, Sr., 95, of 807 Sandy Ridge Road, Tyner, NC, passed away on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 in his home.
Mr. Rea was born in Chowan County on April 27, 1920, and was the son of the late William D., Jr. and Virginia Pearl Harris Rea. A retired building contractor, he had been a member of both Kings...
Redmond Newby
Mar 28, 2016
Redmond “Bootsie” Newby, 81, of 241 Sandy Ridge Road, Edenton, NC, died Monday, March 28, 2016 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC.
Mr. Newby was born in Norfolk, VA on September 1, 1934, and was the son of the late Redmond James and Helen Stroud Newby. For nearly 45 years Mr. Newby was employed with Ogden Foods, and later...
Frances Keeter Lane
Mar 28, 2016
Frances Keeter Lane, 90, of 1621 Lane’s Landing Road, Edenton, NC, died Monday, March 28, 2016 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.
Mrs. Lane was born on March 1, 1926 in Bertie County and was the daughter of the late Charles Norman and Hilda Frances Langdale Keeter. A homemaker, in years past she had worked at Rose’s Dept....
Mary Lane Long
Mar 27, 2016
Mary Lane Long, 101, of 590 Davenport's Lane, Edenton, NC, passed away on Sunday morning, March 27, 2016, in her home.
Mrs. Long was born in Chowan County on July 26, 1914, and was the daughter of the late Charlie Robert and Julia Chappell Lane. A homemaker, she had also worked part-time at both Dick's Drive-In and Gabby's Restaurant....
Simon James Keel
Mar 26, 2016
Simon James Keel, 33, of Valdosta, Georgia and formerly of Elizabeth City, NC, died Saturday, March 26, 2016.
Born in Pasquotank County on April 25, 1982, he was the son of Wendy Brooks Hooker and her husband William "Billy" Hooker, II and Ronnie Louis Cauley. A carpenter, he was of the Pentecostal Holiness faith. He was preceded in death by...
Roy Edgar Lane, Jr.
Mar 23, 2016
Roy Edgar Lane, Jr., 76, of 722 Center Hill Road, Tyner, NC, died Wednesday, March 23, 2016 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Mr. Lane was born on November 26, 1939, and was the son of the late Roy Edgar, Sr. and Clara Mae Goodwin Lane. A retired electrician with Norfolk Naval Shipyard, he was a member of...
Robert Clark Ascher
Mar 21, 2016
Robert Clark "Bob" Ascher, 75, of 156 Willow Street, Hertford, NC, died Monday, March 21, 2016 in his home.
Mr. Ascher was born in Brooklyn, NY on August 14, 1940, and was the son of the late David and Nellie Clark Ascher. Retired as a coordinator for health and physical education from Newport News Public Schools, he was a...
Pete Belch
Mar 21, 2016
Dolphus Leon “Pete” Belch, 86, of 1734 Rocky Hock Landing Road, Edenton, NC, died Monday, March 21, 2016 in Washington County Hospital, Plymouth.
Mr. Belch was born in Bertie County on January 6, 1930, and was the son of the late William Thomas and Mary Pierce Belch. A retired service technician with Sears, he was a member of Rocky...
Edward Creecy Barber
Mar 21, 2016
Edward Creecy "Eddie" Barber, 90, formerly of Swing Gate Road, Hertford, NC, died Monday, March 21, 2016 in Brookdale Senior Living, Elizabeth City.
Mr. Barber was born in Perquimans County on January 1, 1926, and was the son of the late Henry and Laura Mae Davenport Barber. Retired from civil service with the United States Coast Guard Base in...
Alfred F. Muzer, Sr.
Mar 17, 2016
Alfred F. Muzer, Sr., 81, of 96 Old Rail Bed, Gates, NC, died Thursday, March 17, 2016 in his home.
Mr. Muzer was born in Hoboken, NJ on October 1, 1934, and was the son of the late Adam J. and Bertha Halmo Muzer. A retired maintenance supervisor from the City of Warsaw in Warsaw, FL, he thoroughly enjoyed...
Benjamin Ernest Smith
Mar 15, 2016
Benjamin Ernest Smith, 96, of 318 Old US Hwy 17, Hertford, NC, died Tuesday, March 15, 2016 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Mr. Smith was born in Perquimans County on September 29, 1919, and was the son of the late Roscoe and Mollie Harrell Smith. Retired from Towe-Pike Grain & Supply Company where he worked for 35...
Jennifer Johnson Sparks
Mar 13, 2016
Jennifer Ann Johnson Sparks, 47, of Redwood Street, Hertford, NC, died Sunday, March 13, 2016 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton.
Mrs. Sparks was born in Greenup, KY on December 24, 1968, and was the daughter of the late Denny and Sue Johnson. She was a homemaker.
Surviving are her husband, Stanley Sparks; two daughters, Jessica Reynolds and Jordan...
Edward Major Gregory, Sr.
Mar 12, 2016
Edward Major Gregory, Sr., 95, of Northside Road, Elizabeth City, NC, died Saturday, March 12, 2016 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
A native and lifelong resident of Pasquotank County, Mr. Gregory was born March 29, 1920 to the late Eddie Williams and Mellie Overman Gregory. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his...
Beverly Davidson Futrell
Mar 9, 2016
Beverly Jane Davidson Futrell, 87, of The Fountains at The Albemarle, Tarboro, NC, and formerly of Winton, died Wednesday, March 9, 2016 in Tarboro.
Mrs. Futrell was born July 14, 1928, and was the daughter of the late Kirby Butler Davidson and Pansy Odell Taylor Davidson. A graduate of Harrellsville High School, she was a homemaker, a loving wife...
Ethel Baccus Winslow
Mar 9, 2016
Ethel Baccus Winslow, 91, of Hertford, NC, passed away Wednesday, March 9, 2016 in Cross Road Retirement Community in Asheboro.
Born in Perquimans County on September 29, 1924, she was the daughter of the late Archie and Maggie Baccus. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, John Newby Winslow, her daughter-in-law, Danielle Winslow, a...
Joan Loraine Jardine Van Doren
Mar 9, 2016
Joan Loraine Jardine Van Doren, 83, of 121 Williams Street, Hertford, NC, died Wednesday, March 9, 2016 in her home.
Mrs. Van Doren was born in Pompton Lakes, NJ on April 29, 1932, and was the daughter of the late Francis and Hettie McCarter Jardine. Retired as an accounting and payroll supervisor, she was a member of Hertford Baptist Church....
Chrystal Diggs Evans
Mar 9, 2016
Chrystal Mae Diggs Evans, 87, of 120 Willow Street, Hertford, NC, died peacefully Wednesday, March 9, 2016 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Mrs. Evans was born in Mathews, VA on March 4, 1929, and was the daughter of the late Aubrey Linwood and Thelma Mae Ward Diggs. Retired from AT&T having been employed for 32 years in the...
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