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Barbara White Stillman

Barbara White Stillman

May 23, 2013

Barbara White Stillman, 74, of 212 Tynch Town Road, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, May 23, 2013, in her home. Mrs. Stillman was born in Chowan County and was the daughter of the late Watson B. and Isa Bunch White. A retired bookkeeper from Albemarle Motor Company after 37 years of employment, she was a member of Macedonia Baptist Church. In...

Willie Mae Basnight Freeman

Willie Mae Basnight Freeman

May 23, 2013

Willie Mae Basnight Freeman, 90, of Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Thursday, May 23, 2013 in Kindred Care of Elizabeth City. Mrs. Freeman was born in Pasquotank County and was the daughter of the late William Franklin, Sr. and Dora Butts Basnight. A retired cook with the Circle Restaurant, she had also formerly been employed at the Colonial Restaurant and...

Betty Winslow Beers

Betty Winslow Beers

May 23, 2013

Betty Jean Winslow Beers, 80, of 212 Woodland Circle, Hertford, NC died Thursday, May 23, 2013 in Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth City. Mrs. Beers was born in Perquimans County on May 25, 1932, and was the daughter of the late Lindsay C. and Myrta White Winslow. A retired clerk with the Perquimans County Tax Dept., she was also a co-owner of...

Christopher Steven Sidwell, Sr.

Christopher Steven Sidwell, Sr.

May 23, 2013

Christopher Steven Sidwell, Sr., 55, of 2240 Holland Corner Road, Suffolk, VA, died Thursday, May 23, 2013 in his home. Mr. Sidwell was born in Virginia Beach and was the son of Dorcus Ann Perry Sidwell of Virginia Beach and the late Melvin Lyle Sidwell. He was employed for many years as a mechanic/welder. Surviving are his wife of 27...

Lawrence Francis McGrogan, Jr.

Lawrence Francis McGrogan, Jr.

May 22, 2013

Lawrence Francis McGrogan, Jr., 78, of 205 Rockfish St., Edenton, NC, went home to his Lord and Savior on Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Brian Center Health & Rehabilitation, Hertford. Mr. McGrogan was born May 15, 1935 in Philadelphia, PA to the late Lawrence Francis McGrogan, Sr. and Dorothy Ann Quinn McGrogan Clark. He was also preceded in death by...

Alice Mae Brinkley Austin

Alice Mae Brinkley Austin

May 22, 2013

Alice Mae Brinkley Austin, 76, of 92 Hobbs Lane, Corapeake, NC, died Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in her home. Mrs. Austin was born in Craven County, NC, and was the daughter of the late Henry Brinkley and Ruby Edwards Brinkley Sample. A retired nurse's aid, she had worked in both nursing homes and in the private duty field, in the...

Inez S. Long

Inez S. Long

May 22, 2013

Edna Inez Stokely Long, 89, of 301 Sunset Drive, Hertford, NC, died Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Brian Center Health and Rehabilitation, Hertford. Mrs. Long was born in Perquimans County and was the daughter of the late Murden and Celtic White Stokely. A homemaker, she was a member of Berea Church of Christ. In addition to her parents, she was...

H. Fretwell Miller

H. Fretwell Miller

May 20, 2013

Harvey Fretwell "Fret" Miller, 94, of 1313 NC 45 North, Merry Hill, NC, died Monday, May 20, 2013 in his home. Mr. Miller was born in Bertie County, and was the son of the late Erasmus and Mary Lela Mizelle Miller. He was a retired farmer. Surviving are his wife of over 69 years, Cennie Phelps Miller; and several nieces,...

I. Alphonso Elliott, Sr.

I. Alphonso Elliott, Sr.

May 17, 2013

Ivie Alphonso Elliott, Sr., 92, of 116 Sign Pine Road, Tyner, NC, died Friday, May 17, 2013 in his home. Mr. Elliott was born in Perquimans County and was the son of the late Anthony Benjamin and Gladys Jordan Elliott. A retired farmer, he was a member of Happy Home Pentecostal Holiness Church. In addition to his parents, he was...

Sammie Bertram Sutton

Sammie Bertram Sutton

May 15, 2013

Sammie Bertram Sutton, 80, of 1413 Harvey Point Road, Hertford, NC, died Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation. Mr. Sutton was born in Perquimans County and was the son of the late Sammie and Antoinette Williams Sutton. A retired antique furniture restorer, he was a member of Hertford Baptist Church, and was an Army veteran of...

Lee White Chory

Lee White Chory

May 15, 2013

Ida Lee White Chory, 86, of 700 Pennsylvania Ave., Hertford, NC, died Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in her home. Mrs. Chory was born in Perquimans County and was the daughter of the late Lawrence White and Edla Webb. A homemaker, she was a member of Hertford United Methodist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by...

Allen Dale Briggs

Allen Dale Briggs

May 14, 2013

Allen Dale Briggs, 60, went peacefully to be with our Lord on Tuesday, May 14, 2013. Born in Norfolk, VA, and raised in Edenton, he lived his adult life in the Tidewater area of Virginia. By trade, he was UNIX systems administrator at Langley AFB, INRI, Symantec, and lastly, Northrup Grumman. In his heart and soul, Al was a musician...

Myrtis Downs Stallings

Myrtis Downs Stallings

May 13, 2013

Myrtis Downs Stallings, 79, of 680 Virginia Road, Edenton, NC, died Monday, May 13, 2013, in Vidant Chowan Hospital. Mrs. Stallings was born in Martin County and was the daughter of the late Jason and Inez Cannon Downs. A retired clerk from Red Apple Markets, she was a member of Piney Grove Freewill Baptist Church. In addition to her parents,...

George Washington Mordecai, Jr.

George Washington Mordecai, Jr.

May 12, 2013

George Washington Mordecai, Jr., 93, of 310 S. Mosely Street Edenton, NC, (recently of 222 Hillcrest Rd. in Raleigh), died Sunday, May 12, 2013 in Vidant Chowan Hospital. Mr. Mordecai was born in Rex Hospital in Raleigh, NC, and was the son of the late George Washington Mordecai Sr. and Mary Day Faison Mordecai. His birth was followed by his...

Mary Mortensen Colson

Mary Mortensen Colson

May 10, 2013

Mary Patricia Mortensen Colson, 42, of 135 Laurel Street, Hertford, NC, died Friday, May 10, 2013 in Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth City. Mrs. Colson was born in Westchester County, NY and was the daughter of Clare Boland Mortensen Fox of Davenport, FL and the late Robert Bruce Mortensen. Formerly employed as a clerk with Albemarle Hospital, she had volunteered as a...

Joey Davenport

Joey Davenport

May 9, 2013

Joseph "Joey" Charles Davenport, III, 20, of 79 S. River Road, Plymouth, NC, and formerly of Edenton and Creswell, died Thursday, May 9, 2013 in his home surrounded by his family. Joey was born in Chowan County on July 3, 1992. A volunteer and office assistant at Pettigrew State Park, he was a member of Hunters Helping Kids, The NC...

Byron Pascal Kehayes

Byron Pascal Kehayes

May 8, 2013

Byron Pascal Kehayes, 79, of 11 Old Fish Hatchery Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, May 8, 2013 in Vidant Chowan Hospital. The son of the late Ernest P. and Antonie Kappes Kehayes, the family moved to Edenton when he was nine years old. Retiring as Executive Director of the Edenton Housing Authority, he also for many years owned and operated...

Lloyd Gene Reese

Lloyd Gene Reese

May 8, 2013

Lloyd Gene Reese, 90, of Ashe Street, Hertford, NC, died Wednesday, May 8, 2013 in his home. Mr. Reese was born in Pocatello, ID and was the son of the late Eugene and Loraine Reese. Retired as a master sergeant from the US Air Force after having served for more than 20 years, he was a veteran of World War...

Barry Ricky Watson

Barry Ricky Watson

May 6, 2013

Barry Ricky Watson, 60, of Wickham Road, Shiloh, NC, died Monday, May 6, 2013 in his home. A memorial service will be held in New York at a later date. Miller & Van Essendelft, Funeral and Cremation Providers, Hertford, is assisting the family with arrangements.

Henry MacEwan Johnson, III

Henry MacEwan Johnson, III

May 4, 2013

CDR Henry MacEwan "Hank" Johnson, III, USNR (Ret.), age 69, of Edenton, NC, died Saturday, May 4, 2013 in his home. Hank was born in Wilmington, DE, and was the son of the late Henry M., Jr. and Isabel Doris Althouse Johnson. A graduate of Mt. Pleasant High School, and later from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor of...

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