Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Wanda Lock Overton
Apr 2, 2014
Wanda Lock Overton, 85, of 120 Muddy Creek Road, Hertford, NC, died Wednesday, April 2, 2014 in W.R. Winslow Memorial Home, Elizabeth City. Mrs. Overton was born in Brooklyn, NY and was the daughter of the late Charlie and Fonnie Mae Hardett Lock. A homemaker, she had also been a self-employed clothing designer for many years. She was a member...
Mary Grey Byrum Leary
Mar 30, 2014
Mary Grey Byrum Leary, 87, of 209 S. Granville Street, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, March 30, 2014 in her home. Mrs. Leary was born in Chowan County on August 30, 1926, and was the daughter of the late Cecil Edwin and Lillie Satterfield Byrum. The retired secretary/treasurer of the former Leary Oil Company, she was a member of Edenton Baptist...
Elsie Nixon Bunch
Mar 30, 2014
Elsie Nixon Bunch, 104, formerly of 335 Evans-Bass Road, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, March 30, 2014 in The Edenton House. Mrs. Bunch was born in Chowan County on January 16, 1910, and was the daughter of the late Henry Lucious and Martha Rebecca Harrell Nixon. A homemaker, she was a member of Rocky Hock Baptist Church, the Zona Whiteman Sunday...
Elwanda Gibbs Outlaw
Mar 29, 2014
Elwanda Gibbs Outlaw, 91, of the 1500 block of Ring Road, Chesapeake, VA, and formerly of Edenton, NC, died Saturday, March 29, 2014 in Chesapeake Medical Center. Mrs. Outlaw was born in Hyde County, NC on July 22, 1922 and was the daughter of the late Huron and Lyda Spencer Gibbs. A retired sales clerk in the jewelry industry, she...
Johnnie Patrick Bass
Mar 29, 2014
Johnnie Patrick Bass, 69, of 258 Evans-Bass Road, Edenton, NC, passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 29, 2014, in his home surrounded by family and friends. Mr. Bass was born in Chowan County on April 30, 1944 and was the son of the late Lester Patrick and Faye Castelloe Bass. A retired warehouse foreman with Virginia Fork Produce, he was...
Susan Skiles Rountree
Mar 29, 2014
Susan Barrow Skiles Rountree, 64, of 301 E. King Street, Edenton, NC, passed away Saturday, March 29, 2014 in her home. Mrs. Rountree was born on April 19, 1949 in Chowan County, and was the daughter of the late John Speight Skiles and Kathleen Barrow Skiles. Employed by Chowan County for over 30 years, she worked from 1979 to 1981...
Charles Augustus Perry
Mar 24, 2014
Charles Augustus Perry, 81, of 2105 New Hope Road, Hertford, NC, passed away on Monday, March 24, 2014 in Currituck House. He was diagnosed with dementia two years ago. Born and raised in the Bear Swamp community of Perquimans County on December 12, 1932, he was the son of the late Clinton Augustus and Viola Joliff Perry. A farmer in...
Leslie Hillyer Perry
Mar 23, 2014
Leslie Hillyer Perry, 91, formerly of New Hope Road, Hertford, NC, died Sunday, March 23, 2014 in Waterbrooke of Elizabeth City. Mr. Perry was born on February 13, 1923 in Perquimans County and was the son of the late Earl Mathew and Gladyce Hillyer Perry. A retired self-employed electrician and plumber, he was a member of New Hope United Methodist...
Louise Ambrose Wheeler
Mar 22, 2014
Louise Ambrose Wheeler, 89, formerly of Edenton, NC, and more recently of The Davis Community, Wilmington, NC, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, March 22, 2014. Louise was born in Edenton on November 5, 1924, and was the daughter of the late Ellsberry and Myrtle Furlough Ambrose. Trained as a Dialysis Technician and as a Certified Nursing Assistant,...
Albert Salisbury
Mar 22, 2014
Albert Salisbury, 81, of 35 Northeast Drive, Gates, NC, died Saturday, March 22, 2014 in his home. Mr. Salisbury was born on November 10, 1932 in Clay County, West Virginia, and was the son of the late Orville and Dora Ann Rhodes Salisbury. Retired after serving 20 years in the United States Navy, he later worked as a Barber before...
Catherine Hogan Risinger
Mar 21, 2014
Catherine Anne Hogan Risinger, 52, of 7 Tanglewood Drive, Elizabeth City, NC, died Friday, March 21, 2014 in her home. Mrs. Risinger was born in Norfolk, VA and was the daughter of Virginia Elizabeth Chitham Hogan of Virginia Beach and the late Raymond Hubert Hogan. Employed as a cashier for many years, she was a devout Seventh-Day Adventist. In addition...
Thelma Layton Miller
Mar 21, 2014
Thelma Frances Layton Miller, 84, of 520 Saunders Road, Gates, NC, went to be with her Savior Friday, March 21, 2014. Mrs. Miller was born in Suffolk, VA on August 22, 1929, and was the daughter of the late Howard Benjamin, Sr. and Doris Inez Butler Layton. A homemaker, she was a member of the Ahoskie Branch of The Church...
Michelle Denise Cousins
Mar 20, 2014
Michelle Denise Cousins, 47, of 164 Hemlock Street, Hertford, NC, died Thursday, March 20, 2014 in her home. Michelle was born in Richmond, VA on February 20, 1967, and was the daughter of the late Forest and Gloria Stanfield Cousins. She had served in the United States Coast Guard and worked in the parts department of James River Equipment Company....
W. Clarence Bass
Mar 19, 2014
William Clarence Bass, 96, of 522 Evans-Bass Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, March 19, 2014 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mr. Bass was born in Chowan County on November 28, 1917, and was the son of the late William Turner and Hettie Pearce Bass. Retired from Edenton Construction Company, he was a member of Rocky Hock Baptist Church, where he...
William Marshall Morse
Mar 18, 2014
William Marshall "Pete" Morse, 74, of 105 Dobbs Street, Hertford, NC, died Tuesday, March 18, 2014 in Brian Center Health and Rehabilitation, Hertford. Mr. Morse was born in Perquimans County and was the son of the late Ernest Earl Morse and Pauline Corbett Morse Harris. He retired from the North Carolina Department of Transportation after 20 years of employment. In...
Faye Draffin Noneman
Mar 18, 2014
Faye Draffin Noneman, 76, of 914 West Queen Street, Edenton, NC, died Tuesday, March 18, 2014 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation. Mrs. Noneman was born in Warren County on May 14, 1937, and was the daughter of the late Frank Douglas, Sr. and Martha Orilla Pope Draffin. A retired receptionist with Drs. Baker, Francis, and Boehling, she later worked...
Wager Frederick Clunis, Jr.
Mar 15, 2014
Wager Frederick Clunis, Jr., 81, of 83 Perkins Road, Gatesville, NC, died Saturday, March 15, 2014 in Currituck House, Moyock. Mr. Clunis was born in Huron County, MI and was the son of the late Wager Frederick, Sr. and Martha Alice Seddon Clunis. He was a retired machinist. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his...
Irene Chappell Byrum
Mar 15, 2014
Irene Chappell Byrum, 94, formerly of Nixon Street, Hertford, NC, died Saturday, March 15, 2014 in Carolina House of Elizabeth City. Mrs. Byrum was born in Perquimans County on April 26, 1919, and was the daughter of the late George W. and Rachel C. Chappell. She and her husband, the late Thomas Preston "Tommy" Byrum, were for many years the...
Doris Drenner Schneider
Mar 13, 2014
Doris Annette Drenner Schneider, 92, of 1341 Paradise Road, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, March 13, 2014 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Mrs. Schneider was born in Baltimore, MD on July 8, 1921 and was the daughter of the late Herbert and Georgette Jeanerette Drenner. A homemaker, she was also preceded in death by her husband, Carl Max Schneider,...
Marie Juanita Hofler
Mar 12, 2014
Marie Juanita Hofler, 94, of 128 NC 32 South, Sunbury, NC, died Wednesday, March 12, 2014 in W.R. Winslow Memorial Home, Elizabeth City. Miss Hofler was born in Gates County on December 13, 1919, and was the daughter of the late Willie H., Sr. and Lucy Byrum Hofler. A retired clerk from the former Rountree and Riddick General Merchandise in...
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