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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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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...
Harriet Coleson Cole
Oct 12, 2015
Harriet Adelia Coleson Cole, 75, of 201 West Church Street, Edenton, NC, passed away peacefully on Monday, October 12, 2015 in her home where she was surrounded by her family. Mrs. Cole was born in Washington County, NC on July 1, 1940, and was the daughter of the late Jesse Fate and Hazel Bell Phelps Coleson. A retired surgical nurse...
Elizabeth Wiggins Rountree
Oct 12, 2015
Elizabeth Wiggins Rountree, 83, of 1262 US 158 West, Eure, NC, passed away on Monday, October 12, 2015 in Vidant Roanoke Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie, where she was surrounded by her family. Mrs. Rountree was born in Gates County on May 13, 1932, and was the daughter of the late John Nurney and Hattie Mae Ward Wiggins. A homemaker, she was...
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...
Ruth Byrum Doughtie
Oct 11, 2015
Ruth Byrum Doughtie, 91, formerly of the 8800 block of Whaleyville Blvd., Suffolk, VA, passed away on Sunday, October 11, 2015 in Autumn Care of Suffolk. Mrs. Doughtie was born in Chowan County on August 14, 1924, and was the daughter of the late Willie Oscar and Corrie Dale Byrum. She loved her life as a homemaker and enjoyed working...
Deanna Sink Orenstein
Oct 10, 2015
Deanna Faye Sink Orenstein, 75, of Adams Court South, Hertford, NC, died Saturday, October 10, 2015 in Vidant Bertie Hospital, Windsor. Mrs. Orenstein was a native of High Point and was the daughter of the late William Grayson and Mildred Irene Rothrock Sink. A retired educator, she had taught at Ragsdale High School in Jamestown, was a former instructor at...
Eva Graves Lee
Oct 10, 2015
Eva Graves Lee, 89, of 7905 Sumter Place, Fayetteville, NC, passed away on Saturday, October 10, 2015 at her home where she was surrounded by her family. Mrs. Lee was born in Guilford County, NC on September 1, 1926, and was the daughter of the late Marvin Columbus and Eva Taylor Graves. A retired medical technologist, she was a member...
Michael Craig Waff
Oct 9, 2015
Michael Craig Waff, 42, of 1403 River Road, Elizabeth City, NC, died Friday, October 9, 2015 in Duke University Hospital, Durham. Michael was born in Wilmington on July 7, 1973, and was the son of John Edward, IV and Shirley Copeland Waff of Edenton. For many years he had been employed as a commercial truck driver. He was preceded in...
John Mack Smith
Oct 8, 2015
John Mack Smith, 70, of 345 NC 32 North, Sunbury, NC, died Thursday, October 8, 2015 in Wake Med, Raleigh, NC. Mr. Smith was born in Johnston County, NC on April 23, 1945 and was the son of the late Madison Cozart and Bessie Maude Byrd Smith. A retired US Army Master Sergeant, he proudly served his country for 21...
W. Arnold Forbes
Oct 8, 2015
William Arnold "Lawn Mower Man" Forbes, 62, of 925 Foreman Bundy Road, Elizabeth City, NC, died Thursday, October 8, 2015 in his home. Mr. Forbes was born in Pasquotank County on September 9, 1953, and was the son of the late Cecil Arnold and June Inez Needham Forbes. A mechanic, he retired from Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Surviving are his wife...
Dawn Lupton Dail
Oct 6, 2015
Dawn Lupton Dail, 81, of 3154 Indian Springs Road, Asheboro, NC, and formerly of Elizabeth City, died Tuesday, October 6, 2015 in her home. Mrs. Dail was a native of Currituck County and was the daughter of the late Elwood Lupton and Lucille Curls Powell. A homemaker, she attended First Assembly of God Church in Asheboro. In addition to her...
David Correia
Oct 5, 2015
David Correia, 73, of 1948 Center Hill Hwy, Hertford, NC, died Monday, October 5, 2015 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mr. Correia was born in Fall River, MA on August 2, 1942, and was the son of the late Manuel and Maria Concepcion Silvia Correia. Employed for many years as a heavy equipment mechanic, he was a member of both...
Baxter Lewis Sawyer
Oct 5, 2015
Baxter Lewis Sawyer, 62, of 1320 Shawboro Road, Shawboro, NC, died Monday, October 5, 2015 in his home. Mr. Sawyer was born in Currituck County on November 18, 1952, and was the son of the late Calvin Coston and Marguerite Pell Sawyer. The owner and operator of Eyeball, Inc., in earlier years he had served as a police officer with...
John Henry Pierce, Jr.
Oct 3, 2015
John Henry Pierce, Jr., 80, of 535 Old US 17 North, Windsor, NC, died Saturday, October 3, 2015 in Three Rivers Health & Rehabilitation Center, Windsor. Mr. Pierce was born in Bertie County on June 27, 1935, and was the son of the late John H., Sr. and Maggie Mizelle Pierce. In earlier years he worked as a logger, then...
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