Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Briar James Altman
Aug 30, 2014
Briar James Altman, 9, of 422 Yellow Hammer Road, Tyner, NC, died Saturday, August 30, 2014 in Edenton as the result of an automobile accident. Briar was born in Chowan County on July 29, 2005 and was a fourth grade student at D.F. Walker Elementary School. An avid outdoorsman, he enjoyed hunting, fishing, and had a passion for playing baseball...
William Alphonsus "Bill" Ryan
Aug 30, 2014
William Alphonsus "Bill" Ryan, 95, of 213 East Eden Street, Edenton, NC, died Saturday, August 30, 2014 in his home. Mr. Ryan was born in Brooklyn, NY on August 30, 1919 and was the son of the late Thomas and Greta Todd Ryan. A graduate of St. John's University School of Law in New York, he was a retired attorney...
Anita Parker Bower
Aug 29, 2014
Ronald Eugene Bower, 80, died Tuesday, August 26, 2014 in his home. His wife, Anita Parker Bower, 81, followed him a short time later on Friday, August 29. Their family believes that Ron, Anita's caregiver in her fight against cancer, left just ahead to better prepare their heavenly home. Mr. Bower was born in Kalamazoo, MI on September 5, 1933...
William Calice Cooper
Aug 28, 2014
William Calice Cooper, Sr., 73, formerly of Columbia, and more recently of Paradise Road, Edenton, died Thursday, August 28, 2014 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mr. Cooper was born in Norfolk, VA on July 8, 1941 and was the son of the late Calice C. and Evelyn Roland Twiddy Cooper. A heavy equipment operator, he had been employed in the...
Ed Woolwine
Aug 27, 2014
James Edward "Ed" Woolwine, 77, of 1806 Arapahoe Trail, died Wednesday, August 27, 2014 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City. Mr. Woolwine was born in Alderson, WV on June 12, 1937 and was the son of the late Woodrow W. Woolwine and Geneva Ward Woolwine Davis. A 1955 graduate of Norview High, he played both football and baseball during...
Bobby Lee Mathias
Aug 27, 2014
Bobby Lee Mathias, 83, of 1626 NC 32 North, Corapeake, NC, died peacefully at home on Wednesday, August 27, 2014 after a courageous battle with cancer. Mr. Mathias was born in Gates County on May 12, 1931 and was the son of the late Algie R. and Florence Brinkley Mathias. Early in life he farmed, but later began working as...
Ronald Eugine Bower
Aug 26, 2014
Ronald Eugene Bower, 80, died Tuesday, August 26, 2014 in his home. His wife, Anita Parker Bower, 81, followed him a short time later on Friday, August 29. Their family believes that Ron, Anita's caregiver in her fight against cancer, left just ahead to better prepare their heavenly home. Mr. Bower was born in Kalamazoo, MI on September 5, 1933...
Judy Summerill Parsons
Aug 24, 2014
Judy Deane Summerill Parsons, 71, of 107 Kickapoo Trail, died Sunday, August 24, 2014 in her home. Mrs. Parsons was born in Norfolk, VA on August 13, 1943 and was the daughter of the late Herman and Angela Sykes Summerill. A homemaker, she was also preceded in death by her sister, Wayne S. Banks. Surviving are her husband of 55...
Ellen Godfrey Harris
Aug 24, 2014
Ellen Mae Godfrey Harris, 78, of 113 Smith Acres Road, Hertford, NC, died Sunday, August 24, 2014 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mrs. Harris was born in Norfolk, VA on March 24, 1936 and was the daughter of the late Jack Garland and Pearl Arrowsmith Godfrey. A homemaker, she attended Bagley Swamp Wesleyan Church. In addition to her parents, she...
Elmer Stewart Van Anden, Sr.
Aug 22, 2014
Elmer Stewart Van Anden, Sr., 74, of Belvidere, NC, died Friday, August 22, 2014 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mr. Van Anden was born in Putnam County, NY on July 26, 1940 and was the son of the late Sylvanus and Margaret Barrett Van Anden. Employed as a plumber and electrician for many years, he was a life-time member of...
Katherine Lane Lamb
Aug 21, 2014
Katherine Faye Lane Lamb, 68, of 207 Woodland Circle, Hertford, NC, died Thursday, August 21, 2014 in Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation of Elizabeth City following a 16 year battle with cancer. Ms. Lamb was born in Perquimans County on December 27, 1945 and was the daughter of the late Vernon Charlie "V.C." and Catherine Nixon Lane. She had been...
Lillian Blanchette Cuthrell
Aug 20, 2014
Lillian Blanchette Cuthrell, 74, of 80 Northeast Drive, Gates, NC, died Wednesday, August 20, 2014 in her home. Mrs. Cuthrell was born in New Bedford, MA on July 23, 1940 and was the daughter of the late Louis and Bessie Williams Blanchette. A homemaker, she was a member of Reynoldson Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded...
Beulah Lane Boyce Turner
Aug 20, 2014
Beulah Lane Boyce Turner, 86, of 219 Sandy Ridge Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, August 20, 2014 in W.R. Winslow Memorial Home, Elizabeth City. Mrs. Turner was born in Chowan County on November 4, 1927 and was the daughter of the late Luther and Leora Goodwin Lane. A former care-giver for the elderly, she was a member of Center Hill...
Lanier White
Aug 20, 2014
Francis Lanier White, 85, of 254 Ridge Road, Belvidere, NC, died Wednesday, August 20, 2014 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City. Mr. White was born in Perquimans County on September 16, 1928 and was the son of the late Paul Jay and Irma Winslow White. A graduate of Elizabeth City High School, he attended the University of North Carolina...
Joyce Brinkley White
Aug 18, 2014
Joyce Hope Brinkley White, 83, formerly of Corapeake, NC, and more recently of her daughter's home at 225 Timberlane Drive, Rocky Mount, NC, died peacefully at home Monday, August 18, 2014. Joyce was born in Gates County on November 28, 1930, the daughter of the late Channan Parrish, Sr. and Eunice Brinkley. She was preceded in death by her beloved...
Mary Riddick Gellner
Aug 18, 2014
Mary Jane Riddick Ballard Gellner, 90, of The Mennowood Retirement Community, Newport News, VA, died there on Monday, August 18, 2014. Mrs. Gellner was born in Gates County on June 25, 1924 and was the daughter of the late Oscar and Fornie Stallings Riddick. A graduate of Hobbsville High School, and a former "Miss Gates County", she was a retired...
Lois Byrum Turner
Aug 17, 2014
Lois Marie Byrum Turner, 87, formerly of US 158 Business West, Gatesville, NC, died Sunday, August 17, 2014 in Carolina House of Elizabeth City. Mrs. Turner was born in Chowan County on March 19, 1927, and was the daughter of the late Baker and Belle Byrum. A homemaker, she was a member of Gatesville Baptist Church, and the former Gates...
Peggy Abee Lowman
Aug 17, 2014
Peggy Abee Lowman, 81, of 40 Horton Lane, Eure, NC, died Sunday, August 17, 2014 in Down East Health & Rehabilitation Center, Gatesville. Mrs. Lowman was born in Burke County, NC on July 30, 1933, and was the daughter of the late Grady W. and Flossie Poteat Abee. A retired shipping and receiving clerk with Sears & Roebuck, she was...
Scott James Harris
Aug 17, 2014
Scott James Harris, 74, of 36 Mill Run Road, Corapeake, NC, died Sunday, August 17, 2014 in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk. Mr. Harris was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on August 24, 1939, and was the son of the late John Thomas and Lynette Catherine Fuller Harris. A retired civil service employee, his field of specialty involved satellite communications. A...
Ronell Sawyer Devito
Aug 15, 2014
Ronell Sawyer DeVito, 98, formerly of Pritchard Street, Elizabeth City, NC, died Friday, August 15, 2014 in W.R. Winslow Memorial Home, Elizabeth City. Mrs. DeVito was born in Gilmerton, VA on May 15, 1916, and was the daughter of the late Lemuel and Betty Simpson Sawyer. A retired clerk from Virginia Dare Confectionary, she was a member of Blackwell Memorial...
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