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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...
Delores Fulcher Hollowell
Aug 13, 2014
Delores Anne Fulcher Hollowell, 64, of 368 Spivey Road, Hobbsville, NC, died Wednesday, August 13, 2014 in her home. Delores was born in Norfolk, VA on October 5, 1949. A retired teacher, she had taught for 34 years in the public school system at Colerain Elementary, E.A. Swain in Edenton, Gatesville Elementary, and T.S. Cooper in Sunbury, and in retirement...
Erik Richard Van de Bogart
Aug 9, 2014
Erik Richard Van de Bogart, 86, of 103 Santee Circle, Hertford, NC, died Saturday, August 9, 2014 in Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilitation, Elizabeth City. Erik was born in Cortland, NY on September 15, 1927. A veteran, he had served in the judge advocate branch of the Air Force during World War II. Following his graduation in 1951 from Clarkson...
Robert Brent Williams
Aug 8, 2014
Robert Brent "Butch" Williams, 73, of 103 W. Mulberry Street, Winton, NC, died Friday, August 8, 2014 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville. Mr. Williams was born in Hertford County on October 21, 1940 and was the son of the late Barnes Kittrell and Thelma Durfey Williams. A retired general foreman with Easco Aluminum, he was a faithful member of Winton...
Frederick Carlton Bunch
Aug 7, 2014
Frederick Carlton Bunch, 85, of 104 Morris Circle, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, August 7, 2014 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Mr. Bunch was born in Chowan County on October 8, 1928 and was the son of the late Lloyd Carlton and Aileen Murray Bunch. The retired owner and operator of Fred C. Bunch Trucking Co., he was a...
C. Harvey Williams, Sr.
Aug 7, 2014
Charles Harvey Williams, Sr., 78, of 105 Barker Street, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, August 7, 2014 in Martin General Hospital, Williamston. Mr. Williams was born in Chowan County on September 13, 1935, and was the son of the late Atlas Butler and Delma Armstrong Williams. A member of the Town of Edenton Police Department for 36 years, he began his...
D. Lindy Eure
Aug 5, 2014
Dempsey Lindburg "Lindy" Eure, 83, of 274 Harrell's Church Road, Gatesville, NC, died Tuesday, August 5, 2014 in his home. Mr. Eure was born in Gates County on October 19, 1930 and was the son of the late Henry Lee and Nora Harrell Eure. Retired after 30 years from the roll finishing department at Union Camp Corp. in Franklin, VA,...
Karen Alvis Bennett
Aug 4, 2014
Karen Denise Alvis Bennett, 60, of 700 NC Hwy 137, graduated from this life Monday, August 4, 2014 in her home. Karen was born in El Paso, TX on May 21, 1954, and was the daughter of Kenneth Ray Alvis, Sr. and Tommie Holt Alvis of Fort Worth, TX. Karen grew up in Fort Worth, TX and attended Texas Tech...
James Edward East
Aug 2, 2014
James Edward "Mad Dog" East, 57, of 107 Legion Lakes, Dudley, NC, died Saturday, August 2, 2014. Mr. East was born in Chowan County on October 3, 1956, and was the son of the late Russell Edward and Sadie Lee East. He was formerly employed in the carpentry and mobile home transport fields. Surviving are two daughters, Courtney Baker and...
Hazel Mae Pierce
Aug 2, 2014
Hazel Mae Smith Pierce, 91, of 1270 Ocean Highway, Hertford, NC, died Saturday, August 2, 2014. Mrs. Pierce was born in Perquimans County on September 4, 1922, and was the daughter of the late Roscoe and Mollie Harrell Smith. A homemaker and life-long member of Woodland United Methodist Church, she had also formerly worked for 17 years at Don Juan...
Rosa Mae Keck Shaw
Aug 2, 2014
Rosa Mae Keck Shaw, 87, of Gatesville, NC, passed away peacefully, Saturday, August 2, 2014. Mrs. Shaw was born September 26, 1926 in Wellsboro, PA and was the daughter of the late Harold and Florence Pope Keck. She was a resident of Virginia Beach, VA for 40 years and then of Gatesville where she lived the past 25 years. Prior...
John Henry Holland
Aug 1, 2014
John Henry Holland, 82, of Albemarle Plantation, Hertford, NC, died Friday, August 1, 2014 in home. He had moved to Hertford from Chadds Ford, PA and Cape May, NJ. Mr. Holland was born in Pittsburgh, PA on June 19, 1932 and was the son of the late George Fleming Smith Holland and Dorothy Liske Holland. A 1954 graduate of the...
Virginia Lee Nixon
Aug 1, 2014
Virginia Lee Blanchard Nixon, 92, of 695 Saunders Road, Gates, NC, died Friday, August 1, 2014 in Southampton Memorial Hospital, Franklin, VA. Mrs. Nixon was born in Chowan County on March 25, 1922 and was the daughter of the late Willard and Gertrude Berryman Blanchard. A homemaker, she was a member of Reynoldson Baptist Church. In addition to her parents,...
Patricia Ashley Hart
Aug 1, 2014
Patricia Ann Ashley Hart, 48, of 313 Whithorne Drive, Garner, NC, peacefully passed away on Friday, August 1, 2014 at her home, surrounded by her family, after a two and half year battle with cancer. Patricia was born in Chowan County on March 23, 1966, and was the daughter of Bobby and Ginny Ashley of Edenton. An auditor with the...
Faye Dennis Clarke
Jul 31, 2014
Faye Dennis Clarke, 90, of 375 Hobbsville Road, Hobbsville, NC, died Thursday, July 31, 2014 in Down East Health & Rehabilitation Center, Gatesville. Mrs. Clarke was born in Warren County, NC on May 11, 1924 and was the daughter of the late Joseph Asbury and Vallie Joyner Dennis. A former reading tutor at both Gatesville Elementary and Buckland schools, she...
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