Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Elizabeth Copeland Hanshe
Sep 25, 2015
Elizabeth Copeland Drayer Hanshe, 87, of 3100 Shore Drive, Virginia Beach, VA, and formerly of Edenton, NC, died Friday, September 25, 2015 in Westminster-Canterbury on Chesapeake Bay, Virginia Beach. Mrs. Hanshe was born in Chowan County on January 28, 1928, and was the daughter of the late Clarence Claude and Emma Florence Green Copeland. An accounting manager, she had retired...
David Wayne McLean
Sep 24, 2015
David Wayne McLean, 67, of 329 Cypress Drive, Cape Colony, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, September 24, 2015 in his home. Mr. McLean was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 16, 1947, and was the son of Grace McLean Pajor of South Bend, IN and the late Jack "Jake" McLean. A 1966 graduate of John Adams High School, he had served...
Spurgeon Douglas Overton
Sep 22, 2015
Spurgeon Douglas Overton, 91, of 904 North Academy Street, Ahoskie, NC, died Tuesday, September 22, 2015 in Ahoskie House. Mr. Overton was born in Hertford County on September 25, 1923, and was the son of the late David Lloyd and Eunice Willoughby Overton. A retired inspector from the North Carolina Department of Transportation after 35 years of employment, he was...
Marjorie White Davenport
Sep 21, 2015
Marjorie White Davenport, 92, a longtime resident of Hertford, NC, died Monday, September 21, 2015 in Chowan River Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Edenton. Mrs. Davenport was born in Gates County on June 4, 1923, and was the daughter of the late Charlie Frank and Nannie Trotman White. A homemaker, she had also worked with Robertson's Cleaners and Rental Uniform Service...
John Anthony Mauser
Sep 20, 2015
John Anthony Mauser, 65, of 809 Sandy Ridge Road, Tyner, NC, died Sunday, September 20, 2015. Mr. Mauser was born in Cleveland, OH on June 1, 1950, and was the son of Irene Kirtley Tabory of Highland Heights, OH and the late Louis Daniel Tabory. A retired engineer from Norfolk Naval Shipyard, he was a Navy veteran. In addition to...
W. Earl Smith
Sep 19, 2015
William Earl Smith, 91, of Edenton House, Edenton, NC, and a former longtime resident of the Rocky Hock community, died Saturday, September 19, 2015. Born September 8, 1924 in Chowan County, he was the son of the late Will and Nelia Bass Smith. The retired owner and operator of W.E. Smith Grocery, he was a member of Rocky Hock Baptist...
Allen M. Trapp, Jr.
Sep 18, 2015
Allen Matthews Trapp, Jr., 62, of Farmington Trace, Carrollton, GA, died Friday, September 18, 2015 in Carrollton. Born on October 21, 1952 in Bethesda, MD, he was the son of Edna Williams Trapp of Edenton and the late Allen M. Trapp, Sr. A graduate of the University of Tennessee Knoxville, he was an attorney with the Allen M. Trapp Law...
Michael John Aplikowsky
Sep 18, 2015
Michael John Aplikowsky, 75, of 1610 Lane's Landing Road, Edenton, NC, died Friday, September 18, 2015 in Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie. Mr. Aplikowsky was born in Manhattan, NY on March 25, 1940, and was the son of the late Paul and Helen Barrett Aplikowsky. Retired from Standard Wine & Liquor, he was a veteran of the Vietnam War having served...
Laura Barnard Sanderlin
Sep 18, 2015
Laura Mae Barnard Sanderlin, 86, of 747 Shawboro Road, Shawboro, NC, died Friday, September 18, 2015 in Sentara Nursing Center, Currituck. Mrs. Sanderlin was born in Camden County on May 15, 1929, and was the daughter of the late Mack and Pearl Heath Barnard. A homemaker, she was a member of Providence Baptist Church and had a deep love for...
Ruth Fearing Lister
Sep 18, 2015
Ruth Fearing Lister, beloved mother, Granny Ruth, sister, and a long-time resident of Hertford, NC, passed away Friday, September 18, 2015 in W.R. Winslow Memorial Home, Elizabeth City, at the age of 98. Ruth was born in the Weeksville community of Pasquotank County on June 5, 1917, and was the daughter of the late Marvin Wiles, Sr. and Bertha Belle...
Jennifer Wemple Tynch
Sep 18, 2015
Jennifer Lea Wemple Tynch, 36, of 1329 Greenhall Road, Edenton, NC, passed away on Friday, September 18, 2015. Jennifer was born in Chowan County on September 12, 1979, and was the daughter of Patrick J. and Mary H. Wemple of Edenton. A graduate of East Carolina University, she was a bookkeeping accountant for several businesses in the area, and also...
Jo Ann Copeland Lowe
Sep 16, 2015
Jo Ann Copeland Lowe, 70, of 823 Macedonia Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, September 16, 2015 in Vidant Chowan Hospital. Mrs. Lowe was born in Hertford County on July 4, 1945, and was the daughter of the late Rorie H. and Pearl Baggett Copeland. A homemaker, she was a member of Macedonia Baptist Church, and had worked with the annual...
George Francis Gehring, Jr.
Sep 16, 2015
George Francis Gehring, Jr., 71, of 308 See View Lane, Hertford, NC, died Wednesday, September 16, 2015 in his home. Mr. Gehring was born in Montgomery, AL on July 28, 1944, and was the oldest of seven children born to the late George Francis, Sr. and Fleurette Gray Gehring. A retired marine engineer from the New York City Fire Department...
Pauline Twine Riddick
Sep 16, 2015
Pauline Twine Riddick, 93, of 882 Acorn Hill Road, Hobbsville, NC, died Wednesday, September 16, 2015 in Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital. Mrs. Riddick was born in Perquimans County on November 28, 1921, and was the daughter of the late Eugene A. and Annie Hortance Rountree Twine. A homemaker, she also for many years worked with her friend and neighbor,...
Hubert A.J. Byrum
Sep 16, 2015
Hubert A.J. Byrum, 91, of 629 Happy Home Road, Tyner, NC, died Wednesday, September 16, 2015 in his home. Mr. Byrum was born in Chowan County on November 4, 1923, and was the son of the late James Rufus and Ira Elizabeth "Lizzie" Dail Byrum. Retired after 16 years as the Maintenance Supervisor with the Chowan County School System, he...
Gary David Doverspike
Sep 15, 2015
Gary David Doverspike, 57, of Old Rail Bed Road, Gates, NC, died Tuesday, September 15, 2015 in Suffolk, VA. Mr. Doverspike was born in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania and was the husband of the late Joanne Presley Doverspike. Surviving are his daughters, Keri Ann Doverspike, and Brittni Doverspike Wilkins and husband Corey, all of Gates; his son, David Harrison of Jacksonville, FL;...
Martin Newbury Parker
Sep 10, 2015
Martin Newbury Parker, 63, of the Yeopim community of Chowan County, NC, died Thursday, September 10, 2015 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville. Martin was born in Chowan County on June 1, 1952, and was the son of the late M. Edward and Evelyn Smith Parker. A professional drummer, he had worked in Nashville for many years before moving back to...
Eleanore P. Van Essendelft
Sep 10, 2015
Eleanore Paauwe Van Essendelft, 95, of 7969 North Savannah Road, Belhaven, NC, died Thursday, September 10, 2015 in her home. Mrs. Van Essendelft was born in West Sayville, NY on July 19, 1920, and was the daughter of the late Leonard and Janna Verschuure Paauwe. A homemaker, she was a member of Bethany United Methodist Church, its United Methodist Women,...
Charles Benjamin Barker, Jr.
Sep 10, 2015
Charles Benjamin Barker, Jr., age 73, passed away at his home near Smyrna, Delaware on Thursday, September 10, 2015. He was born in Windsor, North Carolina on April 6, 1942; the son of the late Charles B. Barker, Sr. and Carolyn R. Barker Wells. Mr. Barker was employed by Atlantic Aviation Corporation in New Castle, Delaware for 29 years and...
Bobby Bryant Britton
Sep 8, 2015
Bobby Bryant Britton, 66, of Gilbert's Beach Road, died Tuesday, September 8, 2015 in his home. Mr. Britton was born on August 6, 1949 in Bertie County and was the son of the late Cecil Rhodes and Betty Gray Bennett Britton. He was retired from Virginia Electric & Power Co., (VEPCO), having worked in hydraulic maintenance. In addition to his...
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