Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Richard Andrew Blanchard
Apr 8, 2016
Richard Andrew Blanchard, 73, of Shortcut Road, Barco, NC, died Friday, April 8, 2016 in his home.
Mr. Blanchard was born in Currituck County on March 2, 1943, and was the son of the late Andrew and Lena Smith Blanchard. Retired from Civil Service as an Executive Officer of Training, Development and Analysis at Fort Monroe, he was a...
Jerry Mack Byrum, Sr.
Apr 7, 2016
Jerry Mack Byrum, Sr., 66, of 535 Happy Home Road, Tyner, NC, died Thursday, April 7, 2016 in his home.
Mr. Byrum was born in Chowan County on July 10, 1949, and was the son of the late Jesse Leroy, Sr. and Nina Pauline Jordan Byrum. A retired carpenter, for the last several years he had worked with Pine Ridge...
Jim Foxx
Apr 7, 2016
Graydon James “Jim” Foxx, 77, of 174 Mt. Pleasant Road, Creswell, NC, died Thursday, April 7, 2016 in his home.
Mr. Foxx was born in Marion, Indiana on April 7, 1939, and was the son of the late Graydon Arnold and Betty Foxx. Retired from the United States Navy after serving for more than 20 years, he then began...
Ima Jean Waff
Apr 6, 2016
Ima Jean Layton Waff, 83, of 103 Crestwood Lane, Edenton, NC, and known to many as “Mama Jean”, passed away on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 in Vidant Edgecombe Hospital in Tarboro.
Mrs. Waff was born in Chowan County on September 12, 1932 and was the daughter of the late John and Bertha Harrell Layton. A member of Macedonia Baptist Church,...
Kathleen M. Aylmer
Apr 6, 2016
Kathleen M. Aylmer, 81, a former resident of Edenton, NC from 1991 to 2012, passed away on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 in Tucson, AZ.
Mrs. Aylmer was born in Brooklyn, NY on February 20, 1935 and grew up in Woodhaven, NY. She attended St. Thomas Apostle Church and School and went to Dominican Commercial High School in Jamaica, Queens....
Braxton Lorenzo Jones
Apr 4, 2016
Braxton Lorenzo Jones, 83, of 644 Happy Home Road, Tyner, NC, passed away on Monday, April 4, 2016 in Waterbrook of Elizabeth City.
Mr. Jones was born in Pasquotank County on January 4, 1933, and was the last surviving of 12 children born to the late Howard B. and Lillie J. Jones. A retired commercial truck driver, he was...
Lanny Cowan, Jr.
Apr 4, 2016
Robert Lansing “Lanny” Cowan, Jr., 72, Master Sergeant, USAF Ret., of 104 Sunset Street, Harrellsville, NC, passed away on Monday, April 4, 2016 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.
Mr. Cowan was born in Bertie County on December 30, 1943, and was the son of the late Robert L. Cowan, Sr. and the late Mavis Joyner Cowan. He retired in...
Robert Donnelly Heyl
Apr 3, 2016
Robert D. Heyl, 93, of 510 Kimberly Drive, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, April 3, 2016 in Windsor House.
Mr. Heyl was born in New York, NY on June 17, 1922, and was the son of the late Albert D. and Besse Jones Heyl. A retired mechanical engineer with Young Industries in Muncy, PA, he attended Syracuse University and Lycoming...
Carolyn White English
Apr 1, 2016
Carolyn Faith White English, 73, of 334 Yellow Hammer Road, Tyner, NC, passed away on Friday, April 1, 2016 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton.
Mrs. English was born in Roxboro, Person County, NC on October 18, 1942, and was the daughter of the late Archie Graham and Thelma Hobgood White. A bookkeeper, she had retired from the Dixon Law...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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