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Linda Gould Campbell

Linda Gould Campbell

Jul 16, 2015

Linda Carol Gould Campbell, 72, of 19 L.T. Farm Lane, Gates, NC, died Thursday, July 16, 2015 in Down East Health & Rehabilitation Center, Gatesville. Ms. Campbell was born in Ohio County, WV on September 4, 1942, and was the daughter of the late Seth Jay and Helen Irene Fischer Gould. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in...

Margaret Howell Merrill

Margaret Howell Merrill

Jul 15, 2015

Margaret Howell Merrill, 70, of 302 Hazelton Road, Gates, NC, died Wednesday, July 15, 2015 at her home. Ms. Merrill was born in Norfolk, VA on June 22, 1945, and was the daughter of the late Stanley March and Faye Pennington Howell. A homemaker, she was a member of Savage's United Methodist Church. Surviving are her two daughters, Sheila Wolford...

Maxine Phelps Cullipher

Maxine Phelps Cullipher

Jul 13, 2015

Maxine Phelps Cullipher, 92, of 100 Terry Avenue, Edenton, NC, died Monday, July 13, 2015 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Mrs. Cullipher was born in Washington County on April 26, 1923, and was the daughter of the late Zephie and Martha White Phelps. A homemaker, for many years she was also employed with Ricks Laundry. She was a...

Velma Evans Baccus

Velma Evans Baccus

Jul 11, 2015

Velma Evans Baccus, 92, of 337 Hurdletown Road, Hertford, NC, died Saturday, July 11, 2015 in her home. Mrs. Baccus was born in Perquimans County on June 2, 1923, and was the daughter of the late Fred and Lessie Perry Evans. A homemaker, she was employed for many years at Don Juan Manufacturing Corp., and faithfully attended Woodville Pentecostal Holiness...

Marie Casper Evans

Marie Casper Evans

Jul 8, 2015

Willie Marie Casper Evans, 85, of 136 Bowens Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, July 8, 2015 in Brian Center Health & Rehabilitation, Hertford. Mrs. Evans was born in Gates County on September 23, 1929, and was the daughter of the late William John Casper and Thelma Parker Casper Hicks. A homemaker, she was a member of Macedonia Baptist Church and...

Winston Edward Williams

Winston Edward Williams

Jul 8, 2015

Winston Edward Williams, 70, of 359 US Hwy 13 North, Eure, NC, died Wednesday, July 8, 2015 in Suffolk, VA. Mr. Williams was born in Gates County on June 26, 1945, and was the son of the late Winston Harrison and Alice Virginia Dale Williams. A retired farmer, he was an Army veteran, and was a member of Upper Room...

John Wilbert Askew

John Wilbert Askew

Jul 7, 2015

John Wilbert Askew, 80, of 203 Bedford Court, Portsmouth, VA, died Tuesday, July 7, 2015 in his home. Mr. Askew was born in Gates County, NC on April 19, 1935, and was the son of the late Josh and Gladys Askew. Retired from the Naval Aviation Depot in Norfolk, he was a member of Eure Baptist Church. In addition to...

Horace Abel Cohoon

Horace Abel Cohoon

Jul 3, 2015

Horace Abel Cohoon, 87, of 1164 Ocean Highway N., Hertford, NC, went to be with the Lord on Friday, July 3, 2015. Mr. Cohoon was born on April 21, 1928 in Tyrrell County and was the son of the late Otis B. and Alma Inez Cohoon. A graduate of Columbia High School, he later attended East Carolina University before joining...

R.C. Kennington, II

R.C. Kennington, II

Jul 2, 2015

Ralph Craven "R.C." Kennington, II, 70, passed away on Thursday, July 2, 2015. R.C. was born in Portsmouth, VA on June 27, 1945, and was the son of the late Ralph Craven and Dorothy King Kennington. After serving in the National Guard, he worked in the maintenance department at Union Camp Corp. and Farmer's Chemical before starting his own business...

Rosa Morris Stallings Russell

Rosa Morris Stallings Russell

Jul 1, 2015

Rosa Morris Stallings Russell, 89, formerly of New Hope Road, Hertford, NC, and more recently of Cary, died Wednesday, July 1, 2015 in Cary Health & Rehabilitation Center. Mrs. Russell was born in Gaston County, NC on January 2, 1926, and was the daughter of the late Forrest D. and Jettie Little Morris. She and her late husband, William A....

John Lee Raulerson, Jr.

John Lee Raulerson, Jr.

Jul 1, 2015

John Lee "Johnny" Raulerson, Jr., 42, of 35 Sunbury Bank Street, Sunbury, NC, died Wednesday, July 1, 2015 in his sister's home in Elizabeth City. Johnny was born in Fort Myers, FL on December 26, 1972, and was the son of Hope Ives Raulerson of Sunbury and the late John Lee Raulerson, Sr. A mechanic, he was a member of...

Pearl Webb Hemmings

Pearl Webb Hemmings

Jun 30, 2015

Virginia Pearl Webb Hemmings, 94, of 1404 Fox Trail, Edenton, NC, died Tuesday, June 30, 2015 in Vidant Inpatient Hospice, Greenville. Mrs. Hemmings was born on January 13, 1921 in Buchanan County, Virginia and was the daughter of the late Archie D. and Laura Heath Webb. A homemaker, in years past she had worked in manufacturing. A former member of...

Luke Byrum

Luke Byrum

Jun 29, 2015

James Lucious "Luke" Byrum, IV, 19, of 724 Ryland Road, Tyner, NC, died Monday, June 29, 2015 in Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters, Norfolk, VA. Luke was born in Pasquotank County on February 21, 1996, and was the son of James L. "Jimmy" Byrum, III and Catina Wood Byrum. A member of Rocky Hock Baptist Church, he was a...

E. Morris Small, Jr.

E. Morris Small, Jr.

Jun 29, 2015

Edwin Morris Small, Jr., 62, of 1011 Quail Run Drive, Edenton, NC, died Monday, June 29, 2015 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville. Mr. Small was born in Chowan County on October 5, 1952, and was the son of the late Edwin Morris Small, Sr. and Frances Bunch Small. A graduate of the UNC School of Banking, he was the Vice-President...

Rosa Jones Pierce Byrum

Rosa Jones Pierce Byrum

Jun 29, 2015

Rosa Mae Jones Pierce Byrum, 95, of the 2200 block of Virginia Road, Edenton, NC, died Monday, June 29, 2015 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mrs. Byrum was born in Gates County on December 22, 1919, and was the daughter of the late Riddick and Ina Smith Jones. A homemaker, she was a member of Rocky Hock Baptist Church, its...

Betty Christine Harris

Betty Christine Harris

Jun 22, 2015

Betty Christine Harris, 81, of Edenton Prime Time Retirement Village, Edenton, NC, died Monday, June 22, 2015 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Christine was born in Chowan County on April 29, 1934, and was the daughter of the late George Army, Sr. and Mary Duncan Conner Harris. A retired hairdresser, she was a faithful member of First Presbyterian...

Elizabeth Bailey Trueblood

Elizabeth Bailey Trueblood

Jun 19, 2015

Elizabeth Bailey Trueblood, 70, of 654 Egan Lane, Elizabeth City, NC, was called home on Friday, June 19, 2015. Mrs. Trueblood was born in Mecklenburg County on April 26, 1945 and was the daughter of the late Robert and Evelyn Orr Bailey. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by two sisters, Betty and Rachael Bailey, and...

CDR John Francis McColgan

CDR John Francis McColgan

Jun 17, 2015

CDR John Francis McColgan, US Navy, Retired, 84, formerly of Hertford, NC, died Wednesday, June 17, 2015 in SECU Hospice House of Brunswick, Bolivia, NC. Mr. McColgan was born in Boston, MA on October 6, 1930, and was the son of the late Robert and Grace McDermott McColgan. Retired as a Commander from the US Navy after 30 years of...

Jimmy Wesley Ester

Jimmy Wesley Ester

Jun 16, 2015

Jimmy Wesley Ester, 79, of 309 White Oak Drive, Edenton, NC, died Tuesday, June 16, 2015 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville. Mr. Ester was born on February 9, 1936 in Montgomery County and was the son of the late Samuel Elmer and Delette Kennedy Ester. Retired from the Sheet Metal Union, and based at Weyerhaeuser Corp. in Plymouth for 26...

John Wood Miller, Jr.

John Wood Miller, Jr.

Jun 16, 2015

John Wood "Bubba" Miller, Jr., formerly of the Weeksville community, died Tuesday, June 16, 2015 in Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation, Elizabeth City, NC. Born on February 23, 1942, he was the son of the late John Wood, Sr. and Ruth James Miller. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sister, Carolyn Miller Gurganus Sawyer,...

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