OBITUARIES

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Laura Barnard Sanderlin

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

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

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...

Michael John Aplikowsky

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...

Allen M. Trapp, Jr.

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...

Hubert A.J. Byrum

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...

George Francis Gehring, Jr.

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

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,...

Jo Ann Copeland Lowe

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...

Gary David Doverspike

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;...

Eleanore P. Van Essendelft

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,...

Martin Newbury Parker

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...

Charles Benjamin Barker, Jr.

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...

Kenneth Franklin Rowsey

Kenneth Franklin Rowsey

Sep 8, 2015

Kenneth Franklin Rowsey, 51, of 1148-1 Drum Hill Road, Gates, NC, died Tuesday, September 8, 2015 in Riverside Regional Medical Center. Mr. Rowsey was born in Rockbridge County, VA on September 5, 1964 and was the son of Franklin Douglas Rowsey of Buena Vista, VA and the late Mary Elizabeth Wood Ramsey. He was employed as a foreman with Corman...

Wayne Ernest Barry

Wayne Ernest Barry

Sep 8, 2015

Wayne Ernest Barry, 80, of 1236 Macedonia Road, Edenton, NC, died Tuesday, September 8, 2015 in Vidant Chowan Hospital. Mr. Barry was born in Rochester, NY and was the son of the late Dwight W. and Alice Milliman Barry. The retired owner and operator of Barry's Centenary Inn in Williamson, NY, he had served in the United States Army for...

Bobby Bryant Britton

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...

Ed Kabler

Ed Kabler

Sep 7, 2015

Charles Edward "Ed" Kabler, 75, of 10 Small Lane, Eure, NC, stepped into eternity with Jesus on Monday, September 7, 2015. Ed was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 27, 1939, and was the son of the late William and Rose Zelda Sparks Kabler. A construction and paving laborer, he attended Upper Room Assembly and had served with the Military...

Brenda Longpre Hoepfner

Brenda Longpre Hoepfner

Sep 7, 2015

Brenda Adele Longpre Hoepfner, 67, of 148 New River Drive, Albemarle Plantation, Hertford, NC, died Monday, September 7, 2015 as the result of injuries received in a boating accident. Mrs. Hoepfner was born in Brooklyn, NY on February 5, 1948. The CFO of H & M Recruiting Group, she was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church in Elizabeth City....

Henry Francis Cobb

Henry Francis Cobb

Sep 6, 2015

Henry Francis Cobb, 82, of 518 Jamestown Road, Windsor, NC, died Sunday, September 6, 2015 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mr. Cobb was born in Gates County, and was one of 12 children born to the late Zeb Vance and Lillian Brown Cobb. A retired boiler engineer with Amoco Oil Company in Chesapeake, VA, he was a member of Bethany...

Mae Carlisle Wynn

Mae Carlisle Wynn

Sep 3, 2015

Bessie Mae Carlisle Wynn, 81, of 106 East Heron Court, Elizabeth City, NC, and formerly of Edenton, died Thursday, September 3, 2015 in Waterbrooke of Elizabeth City. Mrs. Wynn was born on September 4, 1933 in Edgecombe County and was the daughter of the late Robert Vann Carlisle and Bessie Whitehurst Carlisle Paul. A homemaker, she was a member of...

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