Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Nancy Jo Bennett Britt
Apr 21, 2023
Nancy Jo Bennett Britt, 65, of Plymouth, NC, danced through the pearly gates of Heaven, free of pain and suffering, on Friday, April 21, 2023 from her home where she was surrounded by her devoted daughter and loved ones.
Mrs. Britt was born in Washington County on December 10, 1957, and was the daughter of the late Noah Samuel and...
Katherine Sawyer Chesson
Apr 21, 2023
Katherine Sawyer Chesson, 80, of Pennsylvania Avenue, Hertford, NC, passed away on Friday, April 21, 2023 in ECU Health Chowan Hospital, Edenton.
Mrs. Chesson was born in Perquimans County on May 20, 1942 and was the daughter of the late Nathan and Geneva Landing Sawyer. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 54...
Cuthbert Malcolm Copeland
Apr 21, 2023
Cuthbert Malcolm Copeland, 90, of 715 West Stokes Street, Ahoskie, NC, died on Friday, April 21, 2023 in his home.
Mr. Copeland was born on January 27, 1933 and was the son of and last surviving child born to the late Charles Crackus and Clemma Ward Copeland. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife...
James Lester Doubts, Sr.
Apr 18, 2023
James Lester “Jim” Doubts, Sr., 79, of 126C Sign Pine Road, Tyner, NC, died Tuesday, April 18, 2023 in his home where he was cared for by his family.
Jim was born in West Chester, PA on March 1, 1944 and was the son of the late Lester Charles and Bertha Louise Lynch Doubts. In addition to his parents, he...
Larry Julian Pierce
Apr 18, 2023
Larry Julian Pierce, 75, of 545 Wingfield Road, Tyner, NC, died Tuesday, April 18, 2023 in ECU Health Medical Center, Greenville.
Mr. Pierce was born in Portsmouth, VA on May 23, 1947, and was the son of the late Robert Julian and Mildred Alice Rawls Pierce.
A retired machinist with Lipton Tea in Suffolk, VA, in earlier years he worked...
George W. Rodormer
Apr 17, 2023
George W. Rodormer, 89, of Lighthouse Point, FL, passed away on April 17, 2023 after a short illness at the home of his daughter, Kimberly Anne Fruda, of Daytona Beach, FL.
Mr. Rodormer was born on October 31, 1933, in Park Ridge, Ill to Everett Winston Rodormer and Mary Elizabeth Edwards Rodormer. Mr. Rodormer attended Deerfield Academy. He graduated in...
Ray "Coochie" Beamon, Sr.
Apr 15, 2023
Ray Gordon “Coochie” Beamon, Sr., 93, of 111 New Ferry Road, Gatesville, NC, died Saturday, April 15, 2023 in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, VA.
Mr. Beamon was born in Gates County on April 1, 1930, and was the son of the late Horace Vernon, Sr. and Essie Brinkley Beamon. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by...
Betty Ruth Smith Miller
Apr 13, 2023
Betty Ruth Smith Miller, 76, of 543 Swamp Road, Hertford, NC, died on Thursday, April 13, 2023. Godspeed and we know she’ll be there to greet us.
A lifelong resident of Perquimans County, she was born on November 15, 1946, and was the daughter of the late Benjamin E. and Maxine Griffin Smith. In addition to her parents, she was...
Anne Brown Wilson
Apr 12, 2023
Anne Brown Wilson, 84, a longtime resident of Sunbury, NC, passed away Wednesday, April 12, 2023 in Chesapeake Regional Medical Center.
Mrs. Wilson was born in Hampton, VA on March 8, 1939, and was the daughter of the late Hallet Lee Brown and Margaret Minerva Morris Brown. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband,...
Jerry Lee Phelps
Apr 12, 2023
Jerry Lee Phelps, 79, of 607 Old Cherry Road, Creswell, NC, died Wednesday, April 12, 2023 in ECU Health Medical Center, Greenville.
Mr. Phelps was born in Washington County on December 19, 1943 and was the son of the late Milton Claude and Alethia Picolia Allen Phelps. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his first...
Kentwood Turner
Apr 11, 2023
Carlton Kentwood Turner, affectionately known as “Pa”, of Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Tuesday evening, April 11, 2023, surrounded by his family.
Born on August 7, 1935 in Perquimans County, North Carolina, he was the son of the late George Lloyd Turner and Amelia Saunders Turner. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife of...
Velma Chappell Lane
Apr 10, 2023
Velma Margery Chappell Lane, 97, of 1155 Beech Springs Road, Hertford, NC, passed away Monday, April 10, 2023 in her home where she was being cared for by family.
Mrs. Lane was born in Perquimans County on July 18, 1925, and was the daughter of the late Elmer Eroy and Nellie Baccus Chappell. In addition to her parents, she was...
Kenneth David Lambert
Apr 10, 2023
Kenneth David Lambert, CPO US Navy, Retired, 85, of 1301 Archie Mobley Road, Williamston, NC, went home to be with his Heavenly Father on Monday, April 10, 2023 from his home.
Mr. Lambert was born in Akron, Ohio on January 25, 1938 and was the son of Russell and Gladys Mae McBride Lambert. In addition to his parents, he was...
Daniel McLane Driver, Sr.
Apr 10, 2023
Daniel McLane Driver, Sr., “Big Danny”, age 74, of Jasper, AL and formerly of Edenton, NC, passed away on Monday, April 10, 2023 at his home with friends Nadine Millican and Reuben Lovett by his side.
Born in Hertford, NC on July 22, 1948, he was the son of the late Arnold M. and Camilla Twiddy Driver, and was also...
Monty Tunstall
Apr 9, 2023
Fred Montague “Monty” Tunstall, III, 55, of 205 Colony Drive, Edenton, NC, died Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023 in ECU Health Medical Center, Greenville.
Monty was born in Bertie County on September 3, 1967, and was the son of Gloria Jean Spruill Tunstall of Edenton and the late Fred M. Tunstall, Jr. A supervisor with ZBZ Mechanical in Virginia Beach,...
Nita Barnette Jernigan
Apr 9, 2023
Nita Lynn Barnette Jernigan, 73, formerly of Edenton, NC, and more recently of Winterville, died Easter Sunday, April 9, 2023 in The Service League of Greenville Inpatient Hospice.
Nita was born in Chowan County on September 11, 1949 and was the daughter of the late Claude Edison Barnette and Monnie Coppedge Barnette Bunch. In addition to her parents, she was...
Bruce White Taylor
Apr 7, 2023
Bruce White “Pot” Taylor, 86, of Merry Hill, NC, died Friday, April 7, 2023 in ECU Health Chowan Hospital, Edenton.
Mr. Taylor was born in Bertie County on February 17, 1937 and was the son of the late Thomas Speight and Belva White Taylor. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sisters, Florence T. Bunch...
Kenny Stallings
Apr 6, 2023
Kenneth Rountree “Kenny” Stallings, Jr., 67, of 1090 Perry’s Bridge Road, Belvidere, NC, died Thursday, April 6, 2023 in his home.
Kenny was born in Chowan County on February 12, 1956 and was the son of the late Rountree and Ruby Lee Riddick Stallings. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, Brenda Stallings.
In...
Marty Bissell
Apr 5, 2023
Arthur Martin “Marty” Bissell, Jr., 68, of 6145 Mackeys Road, Roper, NC, died Wednesday, April 5, 2023 in Robersonville as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Marty was born in Robeson County on February 9, 1955 and was the son of the late Arthur Martin Bissell, Sr. and Frances Bennett Ober.
Past employments included his work as...
William Reginald Barnacascel, Sr.
Apr 5, 2023
William Reginald Barnacascel, Sr., 82, of Windsor, NC, passed away April 5th, 2023.
He was born on April 30th, 1940 in Bertie County. He was the son of the late William Judson Barnacascel and Bertha Leicester Barnacascel. Billy, known by family and friends as “Barney”, attended East Carolina College and graduated in 1962 with a degree in chemistry. He married...
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