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Erma Doughtie Eure

Erma Doughtie Eure

Dec 3, 2014

Erma Leigh Doughtie Eure, 82, of 141 Harrell's Church Road, Gatesville, NC, died Wednesday, December 3, 2014 in Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie. Mrs. Eure was born in Gates County on September 26, 1932, and was the daughter of the late Arthur Thomas and Nellie Eure Doughtie. Retired from Union Camp Corp., now International Paper, in Franklin, VA, she was a...

Edward Thomas Montgomery

Edward Thomas Montgomery

Dec 2, 2014

Edward Thomas Montgomery, 86, of 300 Wynne Fork Court, Hertford, NC, died Tuesday, December 2, 2014 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC. Mr. Montgomery was born in Syracuse, NY on September 23, 1928, and was the son of the late Edward A. and Ellen Drumm Montgomery. A retired plumber, he was an Army veteran of the Korean War. In addition...

Doris Sutton Hughes

Doris Sutton Hughes

Dec 1, 2014

Doris Mae Sutton Hughes, 94, of 311 Park Avenue, Edenton, NC, died Monday, December 1, 2014 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Mrs. Hughes was born in Chowan County on August 22, 1920, and was the daughter of the late Willie Seth and Maggie Ward Sutton. Retired after 23 years from Rick's Laundry, she was a member of Edenton...

L. Wayne Liverman

L. Wayne Liverman

Nov 30, 2014

Luther Wayne Liverman, 74, of 3586 Davenport Forks Road, Roper, NC, died Sunday, November 30, 2014 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mr. Liverman was born in Washington County on April 24, 1940, and was the son of the late Luther Warren and Reba Norman Liverman. Retired as a supervisor from the North Carolina Department of Transportation after more than 30...

Sally Marie Brown

Sally Marie Brown

Nov 29, 2014

Sally Marie Brown, 78, of Carter's Road, Gatesville, NC, died Saturday, November 29, 2014 in Down East Health & Rehabilitation Center, Gatesville. Miss Brown was born in Gates County on May 12, 1936, and was the daughter of the late Charles Edward and Luvenia Brown. She was a member of Eure Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, she was...

Ruby Webb Hemmings

Ruby Webb Hemmings

Nov 29, 2014

Ruby Lee Webb Hemmings, 91, of Fox Trail, Edenton, NC, died Saturday, November 29, 2014, at the home of her daughter and son-in-law where she had made her residence for the last eight months. Mrs. Hemmings was born in Clinchville, VA on December 27, 1922, and was the daughter of the late Archie and Laura Heath Webb. A homemaker, at...

Robert Nathan Perry

Robert Nathan Perry

Nov 28, 2014

Robert Nathan Perry, 81, of 1724 Whaleyville Blvd., Suffolk, VA, passed away on Friday, November 28, 2014 in Sentara Obici Hospital. Mr. Perry was born in Nansemond County on August 5, 1933, and was the son of the late J. Starkie and Virginia Samuels Perry. A retired salesman with Starr Motors after 29 years of employment, he was a life-long...

Louise Byrum Johnson

Louise Byrum Johnson

Nov 27, 2014

Louise Byrum Johnson, 69, of 730 River Cottage Road, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, November 27, 2014 in her home. Mrs. Johnson was born in Chowan County on March 12, 1945, and was the daughter of the late Robert L., Sr. and Bertha B. Byrum. A homemaker, she was a member of Rocky Hock Baptist Church. In addition to her parents,...

Lena Rivers Bennett Carter

Lena Rivers Bennett Carter

Nov 27, 2014

Lena Rivers Bennett Carter, 95, formerly of Gatesville, NC, and more recently of Commonwealth Assisted Living in Kilmarnock, VA, died Thursday, November 27, 2014. Mrs. Carter was born in Beaufort County, NC on December 6, 1918, and was the daughter of the late Walter Hugh and Annie Best Bennett. A retired self-employed beautician, she was a member of Gatesville Baptist...

Margaret Willings Trescott

Margaret Willings Trescott

Nov 25, 2014

Margaret Ann Willings Trescott, 75, of 211 Winnebago Trail, Edenton, NC, died Tuesday, November 25, 2014 in her home. Mrs. Trescott was born in Great Sanford, England on May 29, 1939, and was the daughter of the late David George and Katherine Ann Moss Willings. She had retired from the assembly and shipping dept. of Rutherford Controls in Virginia Beach,...

Nancy Powell Duffy

Nancy Powell Duffy

Nov 24, 2014

Nancy Mae Powell Duffy, 90, of 32 Village Ave., Windsor, NC, died Monday, November 24, 2014 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville. Ms. Duffy was born in Franklin County, VA on April 26, 1924, and was the daughter of the late Henry Allen and Mary Belle Frith Powell. A retired bookkeeper, she was an avid quilter. In addition to her parents,...

William Person Harrell, Sr.

William Person Harrell, Sr.

Nov 21, 2014

William Person "Billy" Harrell, Sr., 86, of 109 N. Main Street, Colerain, NC, died Friday, November 21, 2014 in his home. Mr. Harrell was born in Wilson County on April 5, 1928, and was the son of the late Britton and Bessie Owens Harrell. A retired supervisor with CF Industries, and also a retired farmer, he was a member of...

Elva Boylan Harrington

Elva Boylan Harrington

Nov 21, 2014

Elva Lee Boylan Harrington, 96, formerly of Linden Street, Hertford, NC, and more recently of Donation Drive, Virginia Beach, VA, died Friday, November 21, 2014 in Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital. Mrs. Harrington was born in Portsmouth, VA on October 5, 1918, and was the daughter of the late Harry Leslie and Lillian Lee Boylan. A retired school teacher, she...

Leslie Evans Hughes, Jr.

Leslie Evans Hughes, Jr.

Nov 19, 2014

Leslie Evans "Monk" Hughes, Jr., 75, of 110 Long Lane, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, November 19, 2014 in Duke University Hospital, Durham. Mr. Hughes was born in Bertie County on October 22, 1939, and was the son of the late Leslie Evans, Sr. and Tildie Harrison Hughes. Retired from Commercial Ready Mix after 40 years of employment where he had...

Annie Brown Spivey

Annie Brown Spivey

Nov 16, 2014

Annie Brown Spivey, 109, widow of the late Willie Malcolm Spivey, died Sunday, November 16, 2014, in the home of her daughter and son-in-law, where she had made her home for the past eleven years. Born May 10, 1905, in Gates County, she was the daughter of the late William Augustus and Hettie Blanchard Brown. She was also preceded in...

Buck Smith

Buck Smith

Nov 15, 2014

Burnis Aubrey "Buck" Smith, 79, of 1743 Belvidere Road, Belvidere, NC, died Saturday, November 15, 2014 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mr. Smith was born in Perquimans County on August 8, 1935 and was the son of the late Burt and Lillie Smith. A retired machine mechanic with Don Juan Mfg., he was a member of Belvidere-Ryland Church of Christ....

Alice Smith Taylor

Alice Smith Taylor

Nov 15, 2014

Alice Smith Taylor, 89, of 500 N. King Street, Winton, NC, died Saturday, November 15, 2014 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville. Mrs. Taylor was born in Hertford County on October 10, 1925, and was the daughter of the late Joseph Lee and Emma Eure Smith. A homemaker, she also enjoyed serving as a babysitter for many children in her community...

Roy British Ward

Roy British Ward

Nov 14, 2014

Roy British Ward, 85, of Paradise Road, Edenton, NC, died Friday, November 14, 2014 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Mr. Ward was born in Perquimans County on April 27, 1929, and was the son of the late British Haywood and Bessie Overman Ward. A retired fire extinguisher technician, he was a member of McGee United Methodist Church in...

Emmett Carlton Elmore

Emmett Carlton Elmore

Nov 14, 2014

Emmett Carlton Elmore, 85, of 264 Winfall Blvd., Hertford, NC, died Friday, November 14, 2014 in his home. Mr. Elmore was born in Perquimans County on June 7, 1929 and was the son of the late Stephen E. and Adelia Hedgepeth Elmore. Employed with Major Loomis Lumber Company in his earlier years, he retired from Foreman's Building Supply in Kitty...

Shirley Copeland Elliott

Shirley Copeland Elliott

Nov 13, 2014

Shirley Marion Copeland Elliott, 79, formerly of Pender Road, Hertford, NC, and more recently of Albemarle Village, passed away, Thursday, November 13, 2014 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City. Born in Perquimans County on July 29, 1935, she was the second of three children of the late Basil W. and Sylvia Lamb Copeland. A graduate of Perquimans County High...

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