Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Suzanne Speight Bunch
May 3, 2013
Suzanne Speight Bunch, 81, of 182 Lyons Lane, Hertford, NC, died Friday, May 3, 2013 in her home. Mrs. Bunch was born in Chowan County and was the daughter of the late Will Edward and Mattie Brown Taylor Speight. A retired secretary and bookkeeper from Dr. Poston and Hunsberger in Elizabeth City, she enjoyed membership in the Albemarle Area Medical...
Irene Bright Moore
May 2, 2013
Irene Bright Moore, 92, of 922 NC Hwy 37 North, Gates, NC, died Thursday, May 2, 2013 in her home. Mrs. Moore was born in Chowan County and was the daughter of the late Isaac Dever, Sr. and Allie Asbell Bright. A homemaker, she was a member of Zion United Methodist Church. In addition to her parents, she was preceded...
Eula Winfree Williams
May 1, 2013
Eula Winfree Williams, 96, formerly of Hertford, NC, and more recently of Paradise Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, May 1, 2013, in Chowan River Nursing and Rehabilitation. Mrs. Williams was born in Nash County and was the daughter of the late William Oscar and Martha Ann Johnson Winfree. A homemaker, she was a member of Snug Harbor Community Church. In...
Myrtle Minerva Smith
Apr 30, 2013
Myrtle Minerva Smith, 95, formerly of Bear Swamp Road, Hertford, NC, and more recently of Paradise Road, Edenton, NC, died Tuesday, April 30, 2013, in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation. Miss Smith was born in Perquimans County and was the daughter of the late George William and Mary Arabelle Mansfield Smith. A homemaker, she was a member of Great Hope...
William Greene McSwain
Apr 28, 2013
William Greene McSwain, 63, of 218 Powhatan Trail, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, April 28, 2013 in his home. Mr. McSwain was born in Pahokee, FL, to the late George and Susan Cochran McSwain and worked as a heavy equipment operator. Surviving are his wife, Penny Pyle McSwain; three sons, William "Bill" McSwain and wife Shelia of Edenton, Steven McSwain and...
Frank Latimer Rice
Apr 28, 2013
Frank Latimer Rice, 90, of 210 NC Hwy. 32 North, Sunbury, NC, went to be with the Lord from his home, on Sunday, April 28, 2013, following a brief illness. Mr. Rice was born and lived his entire life in Gates County, and was the last surviving of 10 children born to the late Hugh and Annie Byrum Rice. A...
Glen Galen Bateman
Apr 26, 2013
Glen Galen Bateman, Sr., 71, of Main Street, Winfall, NC, died Friday, April 26, 2013 in Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. Mr. Bateman was born in Wytheville, VA and was the son of Martha Edith Pennington Bateman of Crozet, VA, (formerly of Charlottesville) and the late Glen Alfred Moody Bateman. The retired director of building and grounds for Piedmont Community College...
Lillian Louise Byrum
Apr 26, 2013
Lillian Louise Byrum, 78, of 1341 Paradise Road, Edenton, NC, died Friday, April 26, 2013 in Vidant Chowan Hospital. Miss Byrum was born in Chowan County and was the daughter of the late Ellie and Lillian Copeland Byrum. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Gladys Bray, and by brothers, Bertram, Melvin, E.D., and...
Alfred Abraham Cohen, Jr.
Apr 23, 2013
Alfred Abraham Cohen, Jr., 75, of 142 Spindrift Lane, Hertford, NC, died Tuesday, April 23, 2013 in his home. Mr. Cohen was born in Norfolk, VA and was the son of the late Alfred A., Sr. and Catherine Bipere Cohen. Retired as a staff sergeant from the Virginia Army National Guard's 229th Military Police Company after 24 years of service,...
Juanita Hendrix Trotman
Apr 21, 2013
Juanita Hendrix Trotman, 84, of 189 Sandy Cross Road, Hobbsville, NC, died Sunday, April 21, 2013 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Mrs. Trotman was born in Gates County, and is the last surviving of 16 children born to Robert "Bob" and Lizzie Riddick Hendrix. A homemaker and farmer's wife, she was a member of Sandy Cross Baptist Church. In addition...
Elizabeth Nan Davenport Combs
Apr 20, 2013
Elizabeth Nan Davenport Combs, 68, died Saturday, April 20, 2013 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Ms. Combs was born in Tyrrell County, North Carolina. Ms. Combs enjoyed over 40 years as a cosmetologist, and was widely respected by her peers. As the owner of Hair Masters in Elizabeth City, she gained an abundance of friends and customers. She was preceded...
Iris Langston Hand
Apr 20, 2013
Iris Langston Hand, 90, died Saturday, April 20, 2013, in The Heritage of Raleigh. Mrs. Hand was born in Gates County on April 30, 1922, and was the seventh of 12 children born to Malcolm Eugene and Ruth Edney Langston. She attended East Carolina University and later graduated from Johnson and Johnson Business School in Norfolk, VA. In September of...
Graham Vance Byrum, MD
Apr 20, 2013
Graham Vance Byrum, MD, age 84, of 1832 Main Street, Scotland Neck, NC, died Saturday, April 20, 2013 in his home following a brief illness. Born December 2, 1928, he was the son of the late William Graham and Estelle Hooks Byrum. Raised in Sunbury, N.C., he graduated from Wake Forest College in 1949, and Bowman Gray School of Medicine...
Gene Ray Lane
Apr 19, 2013
Gene Ray Lane, 70, of 508 Dobbs Street, Hertford, NC, died Friday, April 19, 2013 in Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth City, after a stoic battle with cancer. Mr. Lane was born in Chowan County and was the son of the late Norman and Essie Copeland Lane. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Earl Lane....
Andy Eure
Apr 18, 2013
Walter Anderson "Andy" Eure, 49, of 323 Harrell's Church Road, Gatesville, NC, died Thursday, April 18, 2013 in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, VA. Andy was a native of Gates County and was the son of the late Walter A., Sr. and Rita Brinkley Eure. A sales engineer with Electric Motor & Contracting of Chesapeake and Courtland, VA, he was a...
Alvah Roy Wiggins
Apr 17, 2013
Alvah Roy Wiggins, 69, of 139 Gum Pond Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, April 17, 2013 in his home. Mr. Wiggins was a native of Gates County and was the son of Kathleen Mathias Wiggins of Hobbsville and the late Gelon S. Wiggins. Retired from Newport News Shipbuilding after 37 years of employment, he was a member of Rocky Hock...
Earline Kimberlin Rea
Apr 16, 2013
Earline Kimberlin Rea, 91, of 402 Surfside Drive, Edenton, NC, died Tuesday, April 16, 2013 in her home. Mrs. Rea was born in Indianapolis IN, to the late Richard and Cordelia Kimberlin and was the owner and operator of Rea Realty. She was preceded in death by her husband, Earl Meredith Rea and her son David Allen Rea. Surviving are...
Henry Walter Brown, Jr.
Apr 15, 2013
Henry Walter Brown, Jr., 66, of 4709 Tulip Drive, Virginia Beach, VA, died Monday, April 15, 2013 in DePaul Medical Center, Norfolk, VA. Mr. Brown was born in Norfolk and was the son of Ruby White Brown of Portsmouth and the late Henry Walter Brown, Sr. He retired as an Electrical Supervisor from Norfolk Naval Shipyard. Surviving are his daughter,...
Selma Asbell Chappell
Apr 15, 2013
Selma Asbell Chappell, 62, of 201 Woodland Circle, Hertford, NC, died Monday, April 15, 2013 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton. Ms. Chappell was born in Chowan County and was the daughter of the late Archie Ray, Sr. and Annie Laura Byrum Asbell. Employed for many years at Wal-Mart in Elizabeth City, she attended New Hope Christian Fellowship. Surviving are her...
Leona Hux Umphlett
Apr 14, 2013
Leona Hux Umphlett, 92, of Chesapeake, VA, died Sunday, April 14, 2013, in Sentara Nursing Home. Mrs. Umphlett was born in Halifax County, NC, and was the daughter of the late Claude H. and Laura Fountain Hux. A retired clerk from Smith & Welton Department Store, she was a member of Enfield Baptist Church. In addition to her parents she...
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