Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Nancy Morris Wiggins
Feb 10, 2023
Nancy Morris Wiggins, 72, of 1018 Drum Hill Road, Gates, NC, died Friday, February 10, 2023 in her home.
Mrs. Wiggins was born in Suffolk, VA on May 11, 1950 and was one of four daughters born to the late Benjamin Franklin Morris and Hilda Leigh Johnson Morris. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by sisters,...
Alene Dale Briggs Hollowell
Feb 10, 2023
Alene Dale Briggs Hollowell, 98, formerly of Tyner, NC and more recently of Boca Raton, Florida, died there on Friday, February 10, 2023.
Mrs. Hollowell was born in Chowan County on November 29, 1924 and was the daughter of the late Herbert W. and Nettie Jordan Dale. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husbands,...
Welsford Eure Artz
Feb 10, 2023
Welsford Eure Artz, 79, of Durham, NC, passed away peacefully on Friday, February 10, 2023, in his home where he was surrounded by his family.
Welsford grew up in his beloved eastern North Carolina village of Gatesville in Gates County. The son of the late John and Louise Eure Artz, he graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel...
Evelyn Long Layden
Feb 9, 2023
Evelyn Long Layden, 99, of 727 W. Grubb Street, Hertford, NC, passed away Thursday, February 9, 2023 in her home where she was being cared for by family.
Mrs. Layden was born in Perquimans County on May 13, 1923, and was the daughter of the late William Preston Long and Mary Chappell Long. In addition to her parents, she was...
Cynthia Ober Spruill
Feb 8, 2023
Cynthia Kaye Ober Spruill of Creswell, NC, passed away Wednesday, February 8, 2023, at ECU Health Medical Center.
Cindy was born October 9, 1967, in Washington, NC. Cindy was preceded in death by her daughter, Kimberly, grandmother, Vera Lancaster, and stepfather, Billy Paul.
After her daughter Kimberly died waiting on a heart transplant, she became a registered organ donor. A...
Charlotte Gwaltney-Hatcher
Feb 8, 2023
Charlotte Annette Gwaltney-Hatcher, 52, of 322 Sandy Ridge Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday. February 8, 2023.
Born on September 25, 1970 in Nansemond County, Virginia, she was the daughter of the late Donald Lee Gwaltney, Sr. and Shelby Irene Pate Gwaltney. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Donald L. Gwaltney, Jr.
Surviving are...
Urbane Vaughn Travis
Feb 7, 2023
Urbane (Urb) Vaughn Travis died Tuesday February 7th, 2023 in Edenton, NC; he was 88; born August 23, 1934 in Nha Trang, Vietnam to Chester Earl Travis of Morocco, IN and Mary Nellie Hall of Fryeburg, ME, Christian and Missionary Alliance missionaries. Urb was the last surviving member of his family, and the fifth of five children; he was preceded...
Foster Parrish
Feb 7, 2023
Foster Parrish, 84 of Corapeake, NC, passed away Tuesday, February 7, 2023 in his home where he was being cared for by loved ones.
Mr. Parrish was born in Nelsonville, KY on January 14, 1939, and was the son of the late John William Parrish and Lena Crady Parrish. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by...
Celia Rae Nixon Copeland
Feb 7, 2023
Celia Rae Nixon Copeland, 96, of Ryland Road, Tyner, NC, died Tuesday, February 7, 2023 in ECU Health Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie.
Mrs. Copeland was born in Chowan County on February 10, 1926, and was the daughter of the late Jesse and Dixie White Nixon. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Lester Taylor Copeland;...
Stanton Harrell
Feb 6, 2023
Thomas Stanton Harrell, 85, of Yeopim Road, Edenton, NC, died Monday, February 6, 2023 in CarolinaEast Medical Center, New Bern.
Mr. Harrell was born in Chowan County on April 8, 1937, and was the son of the late Thomas O. and Thelma Stanton Harrell. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Faye Twiddy Harrell,...
Ricky Eugene Lee
Feb 5, 2023
Ricky Eugene Lee, 61, of Highway 137, Eure, NC, died Sunday, February 5, 2023 in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, VA.
Ricky was born in Hertford County on October 3, 1961. Formerly employed with Lipton Tea in Suffolk, he was a member of Eure Baptist Church.
Preceded in death by his father, Morton Eugene Lee; he is survived by his mother...
Kay White Toler
Feb 3, 2023
Kay White Toler, 73, of 244 Hwy 45 North, Merry Hill, NC, died Friday, February 3, 2023 in ECU Health Chowan Hospital, Edenton.
Mrs. Toler was born in Bertie County on July 11, 1949, and was the daughter of the late Louis Albert White, Sr. and Thelma Cobb White Bruce. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death...
Brenda Jean McClenney Wolf
Feb 2, 2023
Brenda Jean McClenney Wolf, 67, of 202 Pasquenoke Trail, Edenton, NC, died Thursday, February 2, 2023 in ECU Health Medical Center, Greenville.
Brenda was born in Baltimore, Maryland on January 17, 1956, and was the daughter of Mary Frances Hawkins Johnson of Gilmer, Texas, and the late Edward Curtis McClenney. Retired from Leon Nixon’s Catering, she attended Faith Pentecostal Holiness...
Betty Mizelle Peele
Feb 1, 2023
Betty Mizelle Peele, 88, of 20450 Huebner Road, San Antonio, TX, died Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at her home surrounded by family and friends.
Mrs. Peele a native of Bertie County, the daughter of Ballie Durham and Callie Davenport Mizelle. She graduated from Colerain High School in 1953. After graduation she attended secretarial school in Norfolk, Virginia and began a...
Rooster Stevens
Jan 30, 2023
David Simmons “Rooster” Stevens, 65, of 747 Silver Springs Road, Sunbury, NC, died Monday, January 30, 2023 in his home where he was being cared for by his family.
Rooster was born in the Shadow Lawn section of Virginia Beach, VA on May 30, 1957, and was the son of the late Vernon Edward Stevens, Sr. and Jean Simmons Stevens....
Jessie Ruth Hudson "J.R." Shackelford
Jan 29, 2023
Jessie Ruth Hudson "J.R." Shackelford, 88, formerly of Edenton, NC, and more recently of Hertford, died Sunday, January 29, 2023 in her home.
Mrs. Shackelford was born in Chowan County on December 28, 1934, and was the daughter of the late David T. and Molly Cayton Hudson. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband,...
David Stone
Jan 29, 2023
George David Stone, 69, of Sticks Lane, Hertford, NC, died Sunday, January 29, 2023 in his home.
Mr. Stone was born in Norfolk, VA on January 15, 1954, and was the son of the late George Washington Stone and Dorothy Wheeler Stone. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his wife, Victoria Lee Stone; his step-mother,...
Garry Pike Copeland
Jan 27, 2023
Garry Pike Copeland, 56, a member of the Ryland community in Chowan County, NC, passed away Friday, January 27, 2023 in Edenton.
Born in Chowan County on May 18, 1966, he was the son of the late Dorus Elihu and Blannie Winslow Copeland. Garry grew up working on the family farm and enjoyed the fellowship of Piney Woods Friends Meeting....
Thomas Andrew Ashley, Jr.
Jan 27, 2023
Thomas Andrew Ashley, Jr., 58, of Edenton, NC, died Friday, January 27, 2023 in Hertford Health and Rehabilitation.
Mr. Ashley was born in Tampa, FL on March 16, 1964, and was the son of the late Thomas A., Sr. and Agnes Louise Brickhouse Ashley. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a sister, May, and by...
Kim Howell
Jan 27, 2023
Marvin Kim Howell, 64, of 36 White Oak Road, Eure, NC, died Friday, January 27, 2023 in his home.
Kim was born in Portsmouth, Virginia on December 9, 1958 and was the son of Lowell Thomas and Yvonne Askew Howell of Eure.
A graduate of Deep Creek High School, he was the school’s Drum Major in both his Junior and...
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