Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
James Warren Hollowell
Aug 9, 2023
James Warren Hollowell, 73, of 1520 US Highway 158 East, Sunbury, NC, died Wednesday, August 9, 2023 in his home where he was cared for by his family.
Mr. Hollowell was born in Gates County on December 9, 1949 and was the son of the late William H. and Frances Goodwin Hollowell. In addition to his parents, he was preceded...
Lowell Thomas Howell
Aug 8, 2023
Lowell Thomas Howell, 88, of 36 White Oak Road, Eure, NC, died Tuesday, August 8, 2023 in his home where he was cared for by his family.
Mr. Howell was born in the Roduco community of Gates County on August 5, 1935 and was one of three children born to the late John Robert and Helen Piland Howell. In addition...
Sue Brabble Brown
Aug 7, 2023
Ella Susan “Sue” Brabble Brown, 71, of 924 Indian Trail Road, Edenton, NC, passed away on Monday, August 7, 2023 in her home.
Sue was born in Chowan County on February 9, 1952 and was the daughter of the late W.L. “Bill” and Nelva Jordan Brabble. Formerly employed as a financial clerk with the Town of Edenton, she later worked...
Mary Frances Nurney Byrum
Aug 1, 2023
Mary Frances Nurney Byrum, of 188 NC Highway 32 North, Sunbury, NC, died Tuesday, August 1, 2023 in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, VA.
Mrs. Byrum was born in Southampton County on September 9, 1945, and was the daughter of the late Lloyd Nurney and Doris Jeanette Vick Nurney Edwards. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by...
Michelle Harrell
Jul 31, 2023
Dawn Michelle Harrell, 50, of 442 Body Road, Hertford, NC, passed away Monday, July 31, 2023 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Ms. Harrell was born in Pasquotank County on March 23, 1973, and was the daughter of John Wayne Harrell and Donna Maillet Harrell of Hertford. She was preceded in death by her sister, Tina Emmer.
Surviving in...
Leo S. Miller
Jul 31, 2023
Leo S. Miller, EMCS(SW), US Navy, Retired, 86, of the Arrowhead Beach community, Edenton, NC, died Monday, July 31, 2023 in his home.
Mr. Miller was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 5, 1936 and was the son of the late Leo S., Sr. and Donna Louisa Franklin Miller. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by...
Joey Towe
Jul 29, 2023
Joseph Henry “Joey” Towe IV, 63, of 2804 Skewer Court, Williamsburg, VA, died Saturday, July 29, 2023 in VCU Medical Center, Richmond, VA.
Joey was born on June 22, 1960, raised in Hertford, NC overlooking the Perquimans River, and was the son of Joseph H. Towe, Jr. of Hertford and the late Nancy Llewellyn Towe of Fripp Island, SC.
A...
Robert Arthur Settineri
Jul 29, 2023
Robert Arthur Settineri, 85, of 103 Rockfish Street, Edenton, NC, died Saturday, July 29, 2023, at his daughter’s home in Virginia Beach, VA.
Mr. Settineri was born in Syracuse, New York on May 28, 1938, and was the son of the late John and Gilda Piazza Settineri.
A graduate of LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY with a Bachelor of...
Bennie Gray Castelow
Jul 28, 2023
Bennie Gray Castelow, 69, of 840 Willeyton Road, Gates. NC, passed away Friday, July 28, 2023 in his home where he was being cared for by family.
Mr. Castelow was born in Hertford County on July 9, 1954, and was the son of Eunice White Castelow of Cofield and the late Ernest Albert Castelow, Sr. In addition to his father,...
Ronald Russell McCall
Jul 28, 2023
Our community sadly lost an important member on Friday, July 28, 2023. Ronald Russell “Ron” McCall, 73, was a resident of Albemarle Plantation, Hertford, NC, at the time of his death.
Born in Scottsbluff, NE on July 24, 1950, Ron was the son of the late Russell and Phyllis Grouse McCall. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in...
Ronald Elsberry Chaulk, Jr.
Jul 27, 2023
Ronald Elsberry “Little Rock” Chaulk, Jr., 49, of 1691 Belvidere Road, Belvidere, NC, died Thursday, July 27, 2023 in his home.
Born in Chowan County on December 4, 1973, he was the son of Diane Harrell Chaulk and the late Ronald Elsberry “Rock” Chaulk, Sr. In addition to his father, he was preceded in death by his maternal grandfathers, Earl...
Leo Richard Orenstein
Jul 27, 2023
Lieutenant Colonel Leo Richard Orenstein, US Army Retired, 79, of Hertford, NC, died Thursday, July 27, 2023 in his home after losing his fight with cancer.
Richard was born in Southport, NC on August 1, 1943. He moved often to follow his father’s Navy and Coast Guard assignments, but periodically returned to Southport for schooling and graduated at age 16...
Opal Howell Askew
Jul 25, 2023
Opal Iola Howell Askew, 94, formerly of 95 White Oak Road, Eure, NC, and more recently of The Gates House Assisted Living, Gatesville, died there on Tuesday, July 25, 2023.
Mrs. Askew was born in Martin County on January 14, 1929, and was the daughter of the late Mills Howell and Bessie Piland Howell Rountree. In addition to her parents,...
Rebecca Dail Eure
Jul 25, 2023
Rebecca Dail Eure, 92, of 279 NC 137, Gatesville, NC, died Tuesday, July 25, 2023 at her daughter’s home in North Topsail Beach.
Mrs. Eure was born in Virginia on August 7, 1930, and was one of eight children born to the late Landorf and Rachel Flynn Dail. In addition to her parents and six of her siblings, she was...
Kenneth Ray Casper
Jul 25, 2023
Kenneth Ray “Kenny” Casper, 69, of 303 Folly Road, Sunbury, NC, died Tuesday, July 25, 2023 in his home where he was cared for by his family.
Mr. Casper was born in Chowan County on February 28, 1954, and was the son of the late James Robert “Jimmy” and Mary Ellen Parks Casper.
Retired from the North Carolina Department of...
Gretna Faye Goodier Morgan Torlone
Jul 24, 2023
Gretna Faye Goodier Morgan Torlone, age 95, passed away at her home in Edenton, North Carolina on July 24, 2023.
She was born on August 24, 1927 in Galveston, Indiana to the late Fred and Vera Oakley Goodier. She was married to Marvin Morgan for fifty-four years, and after Marvin’s passing, to her dear friend, Edward Torlone. She considered herself...
Ronnie Ward Brown, Sr.
Jul 23, 2023
Ronnie Ward Brown, Sr., 75, of 615 Yeopim Road, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, July 23, 2023 in Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital.
Mr. Brown was raised in Colerain and was the son of the late Thomas Wesley and Ruby Ward Brown. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Wesley Brown; and by a granddaughter,...
Sarah Sampson Bolognesi
Jul 21, 2023
Sarah Elizabeth Sampson “Sally” Bolognesi, 80, of 225 Nixon’s Beach Road, Edenton, NC, and of Durham, NC, died Friday, July 21, 2023 in her Edenton home following a sudden illness.
Mrs. Bolognesi was born in St. Louis, Missouri on January 28, 1943 and was the daughter of the late James and Dorothy Harmon Sampson. A graduate of Russell Sage College...
John Christopher Meiners, Sr.
Jul 20, 2023
John Christopher Meiners, Sr., 78, of 405 Dogwood Drive, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, July 20, 2023 in his home.
Mr. Meiners was born in Tupelo, Mississippi on July 24, 1944, and was the son of the late John Henry Meiners and Jane Smith Meiners Evans.
The retired Substance Abuse Director for both the Pasquotank Correctional Institute and the Tyrrell County...
Franklin Charles Scudder
Jul 17, 2023
Dr. Franklin Charles “Frank” Scudder, 86, of 170 Middleton Drive, Hertford, NC, passed away Monday, July 17, 2023 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Dr. Scudder was born in Bayonne, NJ on June 1, 1937 and was the son of the late James A. and Rita De Nucci Scudder. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death...
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