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John Butler Byrum, Sr.

John Butler Byrum, Sr.

May 26, 2014

John Butler Byrum, Sr., 93, of 511 Ryland Road, Tyner, NC, died Monday, May 26, 2014 in his home. Mr. Byrum was born in Pitt County and was the son of the late Walter Trotman and Pastoria Ward Byrum. A retired farmer, he was a US Navy veteran having served in World War II. A faithful servant of the Lord...

David Lloyd Baker

David Lloyd Baker

May 25, 2014

David Lloyd Baker, 72, of 115 Nixon Road, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, May 25, 2014 in his home. Mr. Baker was born in Portsmouth, VA and was the son of the late George Lloyd and Palma Juanita Phelps Baker. A retired manager from Heilig-Meyers Furniture Company after 20 years of employment, he had also later retired from the NC Department...

Kevin Scott Jacobs

Kevin Scott Jacobs

May 23, 2014

Kevin Scott Jacobs, 31, formerly of Harvey Point Road, Hertford, NC, and more recently of Kingsland, GA, died Friday, May 23, 2014. Kevin was born in Portsmouth, VA and was the son of Darlene Schaefer Cornwell of Mathews, VA and Ronald Lane Jacobs of Kingsland. A graduate of Perquimans County High School, he was currently employed as a commercial diver....

Norman William Castellani

Norman William Castellani

May 23, 2014

Norman William Castellani, 89, of West Gale Street, Edenton, and of South Virginia Dare Trail in Nags Head, passed away on Friday, May 23, 2014 in Nags Head. Norman was born in Brooklyn, NY on May 17, 1925, and was the son of the late William and Mary Saccani Castellani. A lifelong member of the American Legion and an Army...

Lorean Wright

Lorean Wright

May 22, 2014

Patricia Lorean Wright, 72, of 109 Oakridge Drive, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, May 22, 2014 in her home. Ms. Wright was born in Chowan County and was the daughter of the late Rupert Edgar and Elizabeth Rogerson Wright. Retired from Vidant Chowan Hospital as a financial controller, she was a member of Open Door Church where she was instrumental in...

Edward George Britt

Edward George Britt

May 20, 2014

Edward G. Britt, 78, formerly of Southampton, NY passed away in his Edenton, NC home on May 20, 2014. He was born January 13, 1936 to Margaret and Leo Britt in Brooklyn, NY. Buddy, as he was known, had five siblings, Ann, Bill, Kathy, Bonnie, and Joe. He graduated from Holy Trinity School and later was drafted by the US...

Jacklyn Marshall Phillips

Jacklyn Marshall Phillips

May 19, 2014

Jacklyn Marshall Phillips, 77, formerly of NC Hwy 37 N., Gates, NC, died Monday, May 19, 2014 in Down East Health and Rehabilitation Center, Gatesville. Mrs. Phillips was born in Norfolk, VA and was the daughter of the late John C. and Lillian Roberson Marshall. A homemaker, she was a member of Gatesville Baptist Church and had for many years...

Hal Askew Byrum

Hal Askew Byrum

May 16, 2014

Hal Askew Byrum, 77, of 187 Tranquility Lane, Hertford, NC, died Friday, May 16, 2014 in his home. Mr. Byrum was born in Bertie County and was the son of the late William Benjamin Byrum, III and Retha Askew Mizelle. Retired as vice-president and manager from the former Don Juan Manufacturing Company in Hertford, he had been employed part-time for...

Hardy Junious Peedin

Hardy Junious Peedin

May 16, 2014

Hardy Junious Peedin, 90, died Friday, May 16, 2014 in Sentara Nursing Center- Currituck. Mr. Peedin was born in Johnston County and was the son of the late William Andrew and Betsy Ann Whitley Peedin. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Mae Kennedy Peedin; three children, William A. Peedin, Bonnie Scheuer, and...

Mary Fak Corbell

Mary Fak Corbell

May 15, 2014

Mary Fak Corbell, 88, of 119 Dot Sears Drive, Grandy, NC, died Thursday, May 15, 2014 in Sentara Nursing Center- Currituck. Mrs. Corbell was born in Baraga, MI and was the daughter of the late Valentin and Antonia Dukic Fak. A homemaker, she was a Catholic by faith. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her...

Kyra Ann Ellison Hicks

Kyra Ann Ellison Hicks

May 14, 2014

Kyra Ann Ellison Hicks, 77, of 1010 W. Queen St., Edenton, NC, died unexpectedly on Wednesday, May 14, 2014 in Vidant Chowan Hospital. Mrs. Hicks was born in August 4, 1936 in Beckley, West Virginia and was the daughter of the late Avril and Merial Beaver Ellison. A graduate of Concord College in Athens, WV, she taught elementary students in...

George William Thompson, Sr.

George William Thompson, Sr.

May 12, 2014

George William Thompson, Sr., 80, of Don Juan Road, Hertford, NC, died Monday, May 12, 2014 in Brian Center Health & Rehabilitation, Hertford. Mr. Thompson was born in Waynesboro, VA on January 3, 1934 and was the son of the late William H. and Mary Elizabeth Graham Thompson. A Catholic by faith, he had worked as building contractor, and had...

Judith Stallings Lowman

Judith Stallings Lowman

May 11, 2014

Judith Stallings Lowman, 66, of 117 Up River Road, Belvidere, NC, died Sunday, May 11, 2014 in her home. Mrs. Lowman was born in Perquimans County and was the daughter of the late Louis Richard, Sr. and Buna Winslow Stallings. Retired from the U.S. Coast Guard Base in Elizabeth City after more than 20 years of employment, she was a...

Harold Clayton Smith, Sr.

Harold Clayton Smith, Sr.

May 11, 2014

Harold Clayton Smith, Sr., 86, of Mobile Home Park Lane, Sunbury, NC, died Sunday, May 11, 2014 in his home. Mr. Smith was born in Lynn, MA on January 2, 1928 and was the son of the late Joseph and Elsie Louise Butler Smith. A retired supervisor with Naval Sea Support Center Atlantic, he attended Beulah Baptist Church. A veteran...

Ervin Curtis Hedgepeth

Ervin Curtis Hedgepeth

May 10, 2014

Ervin Curtis Hedgepeth, 67, of 309 Tuggie Eure Road, Roduco, NC, died Saturday, May 10, 2014 as the result of a boating accident on the Chowan River. Mr. Hedgepeth was born in Gates County on November 6, 1946 and was the son of the late Charlie S. and Daisy Lee Whitley Hedgepeth. Retiring in 2010 from the NC Dept. of...

Wayne Greene

Wayne Greene

May 10, 2014

Herman Wayne Greene, Jr., 59, of 134 Main Street, Gatesville, NC, died Saturday, May 10, 2014 as the result of a boating accident on the Chowan River. Wayne was born in Hertford County on September 12, 1954 and was the son of the late Herman Wayne, Sr. and Margaret Whitley Greene. He had worked as a heavy equipment operator in...

Thomas Watson Piper

Thomas Watson Piper

May 9, 2014

Thomas Watson Piper, 13, of 1517 Doolittle Mill Road, Conway, NC, died Friday, May 9, 2014 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, as the result of an automobile accident. Thomas was born in Pasquotank County on March 12, 2001 and was a student at Northeast Academy in the Lasker community of Northampton County. Surviving are his parents, his mother, Stacey Askew...

Florence Ann Casper Odom

Florence Ann Casper Odom

May 7, 2014

Florence Ann Casper Odom, 66, of 402 Kilby Avenue, Suffolk, VA, died Wednesday, May 7, 2014 in her home. Mrs. Odom was born in Perquimans County, NC and was the daughter of the late Robert Vernon, Sr. and Clarine Mavis Winslow Casper. A homemaker, she had attended Westminster Presbyterian Church in Suffolk. In addition to her parents, she was preceded...

Kathleen Worth Rushing

Kathleen Worth Rushing

May 6, 2014

Kathleen Pauline Worth Rushing, 80, of 133 West Island Trail, Hertford, NC, died Tuesday, May 6, 2014 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mrs. Rushing was born in Douglas, GA and was the daughter of the late Monroe Williby and Rowena Blanks Worth. A retired office manager of the family owned roofing business, she had served as President of the Women's...

Ethelyn Love Evans

Ethelyn Love Evans

May 4, 2014

Ethelyn Love Evans, 77, of 1414 Tulls Creek Road, Moyock, NC, died Sunday, May 4, 2014 in Chesapeake Regional Medical Center, Chesapeake, VA. Ms. Evans was born in Currituck County and was the daughter of the late Richard Lawrence and Mary Perry Evans. A graduate of Moyock High School where she was valedictorian of her class, she retired as a...

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