Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Shirley L. Lindsey
Jul 22, 2013
Shirley L. Lindsey, 75, of Hertford, NC, and formerly of Richmond, VA, died Monday, July 22, 2013 in Brian Center Health & Rehabilitation. Mrs. Lindsey was born in Rice, VA and was the daughter of the late Henry Roosevelt and Gladys Bailey Lindsey. A homemaker, she was a Baptist by faith. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in...
Mary Grimstead Wrenn
Jul 22, 2013
Mary Grimstead Wrenn, 77, of 1145 US Hwy 158 W, Eure, NC died Monday, July 22, 2013, in her home. Mrs. Wrenn was born in Norfolk, VA and was the daughter of the late David Allen and Mary Anne Capps Grimstead. A homemaker, in addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Henry Nelson Wrenn; by...
Percy Edison Bass
Jul 21, 2013
Percy Edison Bass, 92, of 1634 Rocky Hock Landing Road, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, July 21, 2013 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation. Mr. Bass was born in Chowan County and was the son of the late Quinton Trotman and Bessie Virginia Pierce Bass. A retired farmer and commercial fisherman, he was a member of Rocky Hock Baptist Church. In...
John Paul Perry
Jul 17, 2013
John Paul Perry, 63, of 617 NC 561 East, Ahoskie, NC, died Wednesday, July 17, 2013 in UNC Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC. Mr. Perry was born in Covington, TN, and was the son of the late Thomas James and Offalee Perry. Retired after more than 20 years in the US Navy, he was saw service in both Vietnam and the...
Elsie Sawyer Godfrey
Jul 16, 2013
Elsie Sawyer Godfrey, 76, most recently of Kindred Care of Elizabeth City, NC, died Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Mrs. Godfrey was born in Camden County and was the daughter of the late George Ernest "Buck" and Nancy Johnson Sawyer. A retired seamstress, she was a member of City Road United Methodist Church, Rebekah Lodge, and the VFW Ladies Auxiliary. In...
Edna Elizabeth Winslow
Jul 16, 2013
Edna Elizabeth Winslow, 96, of 296 Turnpike Road, Belvidere, NC, died Tuesday, July 16, 2013, in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation, Edenton. Mrs. Winslow was born in Perquimans County, and was the daughter of the late John DeWitt and Sabra Allen White Winslow. A homemaker, she was a member of Up River Friends Meeting and its Elizabeth White Missionary Circle....
Myrtle Anderson Crain
Jul 16, 2013
Myrtle Anderson Crain, 89, of 106 Mark Drive, Edenton, NC, and formerly of Elizabeth City, died Tuesday, July 16 in Vidant Chowan Hospital. Mrs. Crain was born in Pasquotank County and was the daughter of the late Joseph Benjamin and Eva Winslow Anderson. The retired owner and operator of Crain Realty and Insurance, she was a member of First Christian...
Joshua Alma Perry, Jr.
Jul 16, 2013
Joshua Alma "J." Perry, Jr., 78, of 154 Sugar Run Road, Sunbury, NC died Tuesday, July 16, 2013 in his home. Mr. Perry was born in Gates County and was the son of the late Joshua Alma, Sr. and Daisy Rountree Perry. A retired farmer, he was a member of Gatesville Masonic Lodge #126 and was an Army veteran. Surviving...
Hattie Ruth Bass Owens
Jul 15, 2013
Hattie Ruth Bass Owens, 86, of 114 Zion Road, Hobbsville, NC, died Monday, July 15, 2013 in her home. Mrs. Owens was born in Chowan County and was the daughter of the late Quinton Trotman and Bessie Virginia Pierce Bass. A homemaker, she was a member of Zion United Methodist Church and its United Methodist Women. In addition to her...
James Preston Cayton
Jul 15, 2013
James Preston Cayton, 75, of 592 Body Road, Hertford, NC, died Monday, July 15, 2013 in his home. Mr. Cayton was born in Chowan County to the late Rev. Preston and Estelle Van Horn Cayton. A retired insurance agent, he was a member of Woodland United Methodist Church, the River City Lions Club of Elizabeth City and served his country...
Garland Toppin
Jul 12, 2013
Garland Toppin, 79, of 2938 Rocky Hock Road, Edenton, NC, died Friday, July 12, 2013 in his home. Mr. Toppin was born in Chowan County and was the son of the late Nolan Bunch and Jennie Parker Toppin. A retired farmer, he was a member of Immanuel Baptist Church and the Oak Grove Hunting Club. In addition to his parents,...
George Joseph Dion
Jul 12, 2013
Lieutenant Colonel George Joseph Dion, US Army Retired, 79, of Hertford, NC, passed away peacefully Friday, July 12, 2013 in Portsmouth Naval Medical Center with his family by his side. Born in Passaic, NJ, he was the son of the late George Rosario and Delia Kelly Dion. Minutes after receiving his B.S. degree from St. Peter's College on June 7,...
Thomas Cecil Nixon, Sr.
Jul 12, 2013
Thomas Cecil Nixon, Sr., 89, of 147 Nixon Road, Edenton, NC, died Friday, July 12, 2013 in his home. Mr. Nixon was born in Chowan County and was the son of the late Joel Cecil, Sr. and Mary Lou Nixon. A retired farmer and commercial fisherman, he was a member of Rocky Hock Baptist Church, and was a Navy veteran...
Betty Jane Askew Chappell
Jul 10, 2013
Betty Jane Askew Chappell, 85, of Winston-Salem, NC, and formerly of Gatesville, died Wednesday, July 10, 2013 in Springwood Nursing Home. Mrs. Chappell was born in Gates County and was the daughter of the late Willie Bryant and Bettie Eure Askew. A Certified Nursing Assistant, with a specialty in working with cancer patients, she had also, in years past, worked...
Peggy Jane Hobbs Wyatt
Jul 7, 2013
Peggy Jane Hobbs Wyatt, 79, of 503 Spivey Road, Hobbsville, NC, died Sunday, July 7, 2013 in her home. Mrs. Wyatt was born in Perquimans County and was the daughter of the late Linwood Wilson and Sarah Ida Winslow Hobbs. An LPN, she was employed at Louise Obici Memorial Hospital in Suffolk for over 40 years. In addition to her...
Charles Turner Skinner, Jr.
Jul 4, 2013
Charles Turner Skinner, Jr., 85, of 724 Whedbee Drive, Hertford, NC, died Thursday, July 4, 2013 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mr. Skinner was born in Perquimans County and was the son of the late Charles T., Sr. and Mary Helen Newbold Skinner. A retired manpower advisor with the North Carolina Employment Security Commission, he was a member of Hertford...
Lester Hobbs Simpson
Jul 4, 2013
Lester Hobbs Simpson, 84, died Thursday, July 4, 2013, surrounded by his loving family, following a brief illness. Mr. Simpson was born in Durants Neck on December 4, 1928, and was the son of the late Daniel Webster and Ruth Hobbs Simpson. A lifelong resident of Perquimans County, he was employed by Scott and Halstead Trucking firm in Weeksville, and...
Ronald Eugene Liebig
Jul 4, 2013
Ronald Eugene Liebig, 59, of 1417 Middle Swamp Road, Corapeake, NC, died Thursday, July 4, 2013 in his home. RonE was born April 7, 1954, in Newport Beach, CA, and was the son of the late Walter and Iris Banner Liebig. The owner/manager of Shadow Gardens, he was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Sunbury, and was an...
Clyde Winford Overton, Sr.
Jul 3, 2013
Clyde Winford Overton, Sr., 72, of 1883 Harvey Point Road, Hertford, NC, died Wednesday, July 3, 2013, in his home. Mr. Overton was born in Perquimans County and was the son of the late Ed and Ever Lilley Overton. A retired logging foreman with Weyerhauser Corp., he was a member of Burgess Baptist Church. In addition to his parents, he...
Mary Frances Winslow Cobb
Jul 3, 2013
Mary Frances Winslow Cobb, 77, of 106 E. Academy Street, Hertford, NC, died Wednesday, July 3, 2013 in her home. Mrs. Cobb was born in Perquimans County on June 29, 1936, and was the daughter of the late Cecil Calvert and Lucille Brothers Winslow. She had retired after more than 30 years of service with the North Carolina Department of...
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