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Johnnie Ray Smithson

Johnnie Ray Smithson

Nov 3, 2015

Johnnie Ray Smithson, 58, of 722 East Ridge Road, Shawboro, NC, died Tuesday, November 3, 2015 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City. Mr. Smithson was born in Currituck County on October 16, 1957, and was the son of the late Phillip and Elizabeth Sawyer Smithson. A retired housekeeping supervisor, for many years he had been employed with Southern Shores...

Roxie Chrisman Toti

Roxie Chrisman Toti

Nov 1, 2015

Roxie Chrisman Toti, 88, of 311 Main Street, Gatesville, NC, died Sunday, November 1, 2015 in Down East Health & Rehabilitation Center, Gatesville. Mrs. Toti was born in Bevier, Missouri on October 10, 1927, and was the oldest of 10 children born to the late Roscoe Riley and Ruth Isabelle Reginald Chrisman. A homemaker, she was a member of St....

Herbert Nicholas Mace, III

Herbert Nicholas Mace, III

Oct 30, 2015

Herbert Nicholas Mace, III, 67, of 140 Long Beach Drive, Hertford, NC, died Friday, October 30, 2015 in his home. Mr. Mace was born in Pottawattamie County, IA on December 12, 1947. A veteran, he retired from the US Navy after 23 years of service. He was preceded in death by his mother, Arlene Sonner Draper, and by his son,...

Debbie Rea Pierce

Debbie Rea Pierce

Oct 30, 2015

Debbie Rea Pierce, 60, of 316 Woodland Drive, Edenton, NC, passed away on Friday, October 30, 2015 in Vidant Chowan Hospital. Mrs. Pierce was born in Chowan County on May 14, 1955 and was the daughter of the late William D. Rea, Jr. and Myrtis Downs Rea Stallings. She had formerly worked as the manager of both the Apricot Sewing...

Hayward Spruill

Hayward Spruill

Oct 29, 2015

Lloyd Hayward Spruill, 49, of 208 Pocahontas Trail, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, October 29, 2015 in Vidant Chowan Hospital. Hayward was born in Pasquotank County on March 12, 1966 and was the son of the late Lloyd and Mary McClenney Spruill. For 15 years he was the manager of the McDonald's in Edenton, and later worked as a driver with...

Wallace Reeves Berry

Wallace Reeves Berry

Oct 27, 2015

Wallace Reeves Berry, 88, of 133 Clipper Drive, Hertford, NC, died Tuesday, October 27, 2015 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City. Mr. Berry was born in Smyth County, VA on April 24, 1927, and was the son of the late Matthew and Ollie Neikirk Berry. Retired as a construction inspector from the US Army Corps of Engineers in Fort...

Garrie Lee Hardy

Garrie Lee Hardy

Oct 26, 2015

Garrie Lee Hardy, 67, of 210 Creek Trail, Edenton, NC, died Monday, October 26, 2015 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC. Mr. Hardy was born in Carteret County, NC on March 2, 1948, and was the son of the late Vernon E., Sr. and Nina Marie Tosto Hardy. A retired ship fitter from BAE Systems, (formerly Norfolk Shipbuilding & Dry...

Maude Miller White

Maude Miller White

Oct 25, 2015

Maude Miller White, 94, of 418 Ocean Highway, Hertford, NC, passed away Sunday, October 25, 2015 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City. Mrs. White was born in Perquimans County on October 10, 1921, and was the daughter of the late James Walter Miller and Cora Russell Miller Eure. Retired as a supervisor from the former Don Juan Manufacturing Company...

Ralph Britton Ward

Ralph Britton Ward

Oct 25, 2015

Ralph Britton Ward, 98, of 405 Ryland Road, Tyner, NC, died Sunday, October 25, 2015 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mr. Ward was born in Chowan County on January 8, 1917, and was the last surviving of 11 children of the late James Trotman and Louisa Rachel Ward. A retired farmer, he also worked in the boiler room and the...

Norvin Wile Garrett

Norvin Wile Garrett

Oct 24, 2015

Norvin Wile Garrett, 95, of 112 Dogwood Landing, Harrellsville, NC, passed away peacefully on Saturday, October 24, 2015, in his home where he was surrounded by his family. Mr. Garrett was born in Wilson, NC on July 12, 1920, and was the only child of the late Noah S. and Eula Davis Garrett. A 1936 graduate of Ahoskie High School,...

Richard Dale Gilbert

Richard Dale Gilbert

Oct 22, 2015

Richard Dale Gilbert, 57, of 306 Yeopim Trail, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, October 22, 2015 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC. Mr. Gilbert was born in Crestview, Florida on January 30, 1958, and was the son of Mary Elizabeth Nixon Moser of Edenton and the late Robert Richard Gilbert. He had formerly worked in home construction, specializing in both flooring...

Thurman Chappell

Thurman Chappell

Oct 22, 2015

Thurman Chappell, 91, formerly of Pine Street, Winton, NC, died Thursday, October 22, 2015 in Down East Health & Rehabilitation Center, Gatesville. Mr. Chappell was born in Perquimans County on June 9, 1924, and was one of 13 children born to the late Caracus and Emma C. Chappell. Employed in the auto parts industry for many years in Chattanooga, TN,...

Virginia Moore Byrum

Virginia Moore Byrum

Oct 21, 2015

Virginia Moore Byrum, age 92, a native of Edenton, NC, died Wednesday October 21, 2015. She was the daughter of the late Sidney Lee Moore and Pearl Perry Moore, and the wife of the late Thomas Campbell Byrum, Jr. In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her sister, Beverly Moore Harrell. She was a...

Randy Elliott, Sr.

Randy Elliott, Sr.

Oct 20, 2015

James Randy "Big Randy" Elliott, Sr., 61, of 178 Haywood Smith Road, died Tuesday, October 20, 2015. Mr. Elliott was born in Perquimans County on January 21, 1954, and was the son of the late Oliver Cecil and Marie White Elliott. A farmer, he was employed with Andy Smith Farms. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death...

John Dana Meacham

John Dana Meacham

Oct 19, 2015

John Dana Meacham, 45, of Hopkins Drive, Elizabeth City, NC, died Monday, October 19, 2015 in his home. Mr. Meacham was born in Pinellas County, FL on July 24, 1970, and was the son of Joy Ann Shamblin of Hertford and the late John Reubin Meacham. A veteran, he served in the US Marine Corps and later retired from the...

Earl Vinson Jordan

Earl Vinson Jordan

Oct 16, 2015

Earl Vinson Jordan, 85, of 300 Jordan Loop Road, Tyner, NC, died Friday, October 16, 2015 in Sentara Albemarle Regional Medical Center, Elizabeth City. He is now reunited with his beloved wife Ann, as when he first met her on White Hat Road in Perquimans County while driving his Studebaker. They were married for 53 years before she passed away...

Colleen Ruiz

Colleen Ruiz

Oct 15, 2015

Colleen Ruiz, 46, of Luke Street, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, October 15, 2015 in her home. Colleen was born in Bay Shore, NY on September 11, 1969. An emergency medical technician, she was also a veteran of the US Army. Surviving are her mother, Patricia Ann Galbraith Mathews and her husband Ed of Edenton; her father, Joseph Ruiz of Albany,...

Cynthia Buck Prince

Cynthia Buck Prince

Oct 14, 2015

Cynthia Joyce Buck Prince, 43, of 164 Discovery Trail, Hertford, NC, passed away Wednesday, October 14, 2015 in her mother's home in Hertford. Cynthia was born in Norfolk, VA on February 4, 1972. Employed with Lowe's Home Improvement in Elizabeth City for the past 14 years, she was a member of Chapel on the Sound where she had served as...

Bernard Tilson Dale, Sr.

Bernard Tilson Dale, Sr.

Oct 13, 2015

Bernard Tilson Dale, Sr., 71, of 405 Pasquenoke Trail, Edenton, NC, died Tuesday, October 13, 2015 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville. Mr. Dale was born in Chowan County on June 20, 1944, and was the son of the late William Ralph and Frances Copeland Dale. Retired from Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock after 25 year of employment, he owned and...

Julia Tribou Nixon

Julia Tribou Nixon

Oct 12, 2015

Julia Jane Tribou Nixon, 66, of 603 Bandon Road, Edenton, NC, died Monday, October 12, 2015 in Vidant Chowan Hospital. Mrs. Nixon was born in Wake County, NC on March 7, 1949, and was the daughter of the late Henry Russell and Isabella Partin Tribou. Formerly employed with the Chowan County Dept. of Social Services, she was also preceded in...

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