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Earline Morse Godfrey

Earline Morse Godfrey

Sep 20, 2012

Earline Morse "Teenie" Godfrey, 77, of Carolina House and formerly of Winslow Road, Hertford, died Thursday, September 20, 2012 in Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth City. Mrs. Godfrey was born in Perquimans County and was the daughter of the late Ernest Earl and Pauline Corbitt Morse. A homemaker, she was a member of both the New Hope Home Demonstration Club and the...

Doris Layden Monds

Doris Layden Monds

Sep 20, 2012

Doris Layden Monds, 82, of 934 Center Hill Highway, Tyner, NC, died Thursday, September 20, 2012 in her home. Mrs. Monds was born in Perquimans County and was the daughter of the late Archie Elfred and Beatrice Copeland Layden. A member of Center Hill Baptist Church, she with her husband were the retired owners and operators of L.C. Monds Truck...

Tammy Rigsbee Provost

Tammy Rigsbee Provost

Sep 18, 2012

Tammy Rigsbee Provost, 41, of 115 Pasquotank Station Road, Elizabeth City, NC, died Tuesday, September 18, 2012 in Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth City. Mrs. Provost was born in Charleston, SC and was the daughter of Charles William, Jr. and Claris Amey Rigsbee of Hot Springs, AR. A loving and adoring wife, daughter, sister, and aunt, she was a faithful member of...

Dorothy Woodley Day Cerre

Dorothy Woodley Day Cerre

Sep 18, 2012

Dorothy Woodley Day Cerre, 97, died on September 18, 2012. Mrs. Cerre was born in Creswell, North Carolina, on March 27, 1915, the daughter of the late Eva Cotten Davis Woodley and the Rev. Stewart Johnston Woodley, and the granddaughter of the late Rev. Dr. Dennis Wrighter Davis and Mary Cotten Davis. Dot Cerre's passion in life was music as...

Robert James Fritsche

Robert James Fritsche

Sep 17, 2012

Robert James "Bob" Fritsche, 77, of 417 Captain's Cove, Unit E, Edenton, NC, died Monday, September 17, 2012 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation, Edenton. Mr. Fritsche was born in Pittsburgh, PA and was the son of the late William F. and Madeline Veronica Feeny Fritsche. A retired Certified Internal Auditor with the Department of Justice, he was a Catholic...

Ruth Bixby Fritz

Ruth Bixby Fritz

Sep 17, 2012

Ruth Bixby Fritz, 98, formerly of Dobbs Street, Hertford, NC, and more recently of Edenton Prime Time, died Monday, September 17, 2012. Mrs. Fritz was born in Chicago, IL and was the daughter of the late Alvin and Grace Lynn Bixby. A retired secretary from CTS Corporation, she was a member of Grace Lutheran Church in Elkhart, IN and more...

Carlton Reed Harrell

Carlton Reed Harrell

Sep 17, 2012

Carlton Reed Harrell, 77, of 026 Gatlington Road, Gates, NC, died Monday, September 17, 2012 in his home. Mr. Harrell was born in Chowan County and was the son of the late Henry Benjamin and Mable Forehand Harrell. A retired supervisor from Union Camp after 39 years of employment, he was a member of the Gates Volunteer Fire Dept., Gates...

Margaret Rountree Forehand

Margaret Rountree Forehand

Sep 15, 2012

Margaret Rountree "Patsy" Forehand, 77, of 84 Hill Lane Road, Eure, NC, died Saturday, September 15, 2012 in Duke University Hospital, Durham, NC. Mrs. Forehand, the daughter of the late Ray and Lucy Perry Rountree, was born in Norfolk, Virginia and moved to Eure shortly thereafter. After graduating from Gatesville High School in 1953, she met the love of her...

Lillian Bass Williford

Lillian Bass Williford

Sep 15, 2012

On September 15, 2012, Lillian Bass Williford was completely healed of Parkinson's Disease when she went home to be with her Lord. Mrs. Williford was born in Chowan County and was the daughter of the late Quinton and Wessie Saunders Bass. The former manager of the Roanoke-Chowan Hospital Gift Shop, and a former carrier for The Virginian-Pilot newspaper, she was...

Margaret Felton Rountree

Margaret Felton Rountree

Sep 12, 2012

Annie Margaret Felton Rountree, 102, of NC 37 North, Gates, NC, died Wednesday, September 12, 2012 in Down East Health & Rehabilitation in Gatesville. Mrs. Rountree was born in Gates County and was the daughter of the late Walter Jethro and Katherine Harrell Felton. A graduate of East Carolina Teacher's College, now East Carolina University, she was a retired teacher,...

Martha Ellen Garland Murphy

Martha Ellen Garland Murphy

Sep 12, 2012

Martha Ellen Garland Murphy, 97, of 875 Union Branch Road, Corapeake, NC, died Wednesday, September 12, 2012 in Nansemond Pointe Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, Suffolk, VA. Mrs. Murphy was born in Harrison County, WV and was the daughter of the late George Jacob Alfred Burton and Anna Ella Romesburg Garland. A homemaker, she was a member of Catawba Methodist Church...

Thomas Hazel Eure

Thomas Hazel Eure

Sep 11, 2012

Thomas Hazel Eure, 75, of 263 White Hat Road, Hertford, NC, died Tuesday, September 11, 2012 in Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. Mr. Eure was born in Perquimans County and was the son of the late Gilbert Blount and Hattie Harrell Eure. Retired as a Senior Master Sergeant from the US Air Force after having served for more than 20 years,...

Dorothy White Creed

Dorothy White Creed

Sep 10, 2012

Dorothy White Creed, 70, of 418 Turnpike Road, Belvidere, NC, died Monday, September 10, 2012 in Vidant Inpatient Hospice, Greenville, NC. Mrs. Creed was born in Perquimans County and was the daughter of the late Charlie Clarkson White and Emma Ainsley White Rountree. Formerly employed with Dr. Lloyd Griffin, DDS, in Elizabeth City, Peoples Bank & Trust Co. in Hertford,...

Virginia Goodwin Wells

Virginia Goodwin Wells

Sep 8, 2012

Virginia Goodwin Wells, 94, of 904 W. Queen Street, Edenton, NC, died Saturday, September 8, 2012 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center, Edenton. Mrs. Wells was born in Chowan County and was the daughter of the late William Joseph and Jennie Parker Goodwin. A graduate of Edenton High School, she received training in business courses and worked for a...

Sherwood Ray Coltrain, Sr.

Sherwood Ray Coltrain, Sr.

Sep 8, 2012

Sherwood Ray Coltrain, Sr., 73, of 119 Morris Circle, Edenton, NC, died Saturday, September 8, 2012 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC. Mr. Coltrain was born in Martin County and was the retired owner/operator of Coltrain Tile Co. A veteran, he had served in the US Navy and later, the Naval Reserves for a total of nine years. Surviving are...

Timothy William Titus, Jr.

Timothy William Titus, Jr.

Sep 5, 2012

Timothy William "Tim" Titus, Jr., 50, of 424 Mexico Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, September 5, 2012 in UNC Hospital, Chapel Hill. Tim was born in Chowan County and was the son of Dorothy Spruill "Dot" Titus of Edenton. A 20 year employee of Colony Tire Corp., he was the manager of their Re-Tread Plant, and was a member of...

Eleanor Harrell Partin

Eleanor Harrell Partin

Sep 5, 2012

Eleanor Harrell Partin, 90, formerly of West Queen Street, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, September 5, 2012 in Washington County Hospital, Plymouth. Mrs. Partin was born in Chowan County and was the daughter of the late Will and Pearl Byrum Harrell. Retired after more than 25 years with the Chowan County Soil Conservation Service, she later retired as a secretary with...

Maureen Collins Christopher

Maureen Collins Christopher

Sep 4, 2012

Maureen Collins Christopher, 69, of 301 Hiland Park Ave., Hertford, NC, died Tuesday, September 4, 2012 in her home. Mrs. Christopher was born in Swinford, Ireland and was the daughter of the late Terry and Nora McGuire Collins. A homemaker, she had also been employed for many years as a caregiver. In addition to her parents she was preceded in...

Paul Thomas Wood

Paul Thomas Wood

Sep 4, 2012

Paul Thomas Wood, 73, of 632 Swamp Road, Hertford, NC, died Tuesday, September 4, 2012 in his home. Mr. Wood was born in Perquimans County and was the son of the late Wallace Mevlyn and Frances Elizabeth Singleton Wood. He was a retired dragline operator and commercial fisherman. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his...

Hazel Van Sant Harris

Hazel Van Sant Harris

Aug 30, 2012

Hazel Van Sant Harris, 88, of 209 Woodville Road, passed away Thursday, August 30, 2012 in her home. Mrs. Harris was born in Atlantic City, NJ and was the daughter of the late Wilbur Tilton and Marie Hilgert Van Sant. A homemaker, she was a Catholic by faith and was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution. In...

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