Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
DeLoris Parker Speight
Jan 15, 2022
DeLoris Parker Speight, 81, formerly of NC 32 North, Sunbury, NC, and more recently of Gates House Assisted Living in Gatesville died Saturday, January 15, 2022.
Mrs. Speight was born in Gates County on August 8, 1940, and was the only daughter of seven children born to the late James Kindred and Mary Polly Mullen Parker. In addition to her...
Buddy Sykes
Jan 14, 2022
Lovett Carroll “Buddy” Sykes, Jr., 58, 469 Barfield Road, Eure, NC, died Friday, January 14, 2022 in Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie.
Mr. Sykes was born in Virginia Beach, VA on September 28, 1963, and was the son of the late Lovett Carroll Sykes, Sr. and Mary Agnes Ainsley Girod. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by...
Margaret Winslow Eure
Jan 14, 2022
Margaret Byrum Winslow Eure, 88, of 274 Harrell’s Church Road, Eure, NC, died Friday, January 14, 2022, in her home, on her 71st wedding anniversary.
Mrs. Eure was born in Chowan County on October 19, 1933, and was the daughter of the late Kenneth Ray and Maebelle Privott Winlsow. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by...
Douglas Bryant Smith, Sr.
Jan 14, 2022
Douglas Bryant Smith, Sr., 72, of 803 Happy Home Road, Tyner, NC, died Friday, January 14, 2022 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton.
Mr. Smith was born in Chowan County on September 11, 1949, and was the son of the late Kermit William Smith and Josephine Baker Smith Newbern. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by brothers,...
Allan Baker Payne
Jan 14, 2022
Allan Baker Payne, 81, of Eure, NC, died Friday, January 14, 2022 in his home.
Mr. Payne was born in Portsmouth, VA on July 23, 1940, and was the son of the late Major Edward and Virginia Baker Payne. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Edward Troy Payne.
A retired building contractor and...
Wilse B. Burgess
Jan 12, 2022
Wilse B. Burgess, 93, a lifelong resident of the Old Trap community in Camden County, NC, passed away Wednesday, January, 12, 2022.
Mr. Burgess was born in Camden County on December 23, 1928 and was the son of the late Wilson and Pollie Burgess. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a son, Aubrey Burgess, and...
Pamela Sue Place
Jan 10, 2022
Pamela Sue Place, 73, of 738 Colonial Beach Road, Columbia, NC, died Monday, January 10, 2022 in Vidant Inpatient Hospice, Greenville.
Pam was born on November 11, 1948 in Lima, Ohio, and was the daughter of Bernice Truesdale Place of Creswell and the late Stanley Bryan Place.
A retired teacher, she spent 35 years in education, teaching at both Pines...
Herman Brice Ashley
Jan 10, 2022
Herman Brice Ashley, 84, of Spring Hope, NC, passed away Monday, January 10, 2022 in his home.
Mr. Ashley was born in Perquimans County on April 21, 1937, and was the son of the late John Francis and Myrtle Charity Williams Ashley. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by sisters, Ertia Lane, Oneda Ashley, and Edith...
Faye Cartwright Boyce
Jan 10, 2022
Faye Cartwright Boyce, 77, of 357 Mexico Road, Edenton, NC, died Monday, January 10, 2022 in Vidant Chowan Hospital.
Mrs. Boyce was born in Pasquotank County on December 5, 1944, and was the daughter of the late Davis W., Jr. and Kate Elizabeth Perry Cartwright. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband of 55...
Steven T. Spencer
Jan 10, 2022
Steven T. Spencer, 71, of Camden, NC, passed away Monday, January 10, 2022, in his home surrounded by family.
Mr. Spencer was born in Pasquotank County on May 8, 1950, and he was the son of the late Jack and Marie Spencer. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his brother, Daryl Spencer.
A retired electrician,...
Charles W. Lacefield
Jan 9, 2022
Charles W. Lacefield passed away peacefully at his residence at Albemarle Plantation in Hertford, NC, on January 9, 2022, at the age of 81.
Charlie was born in Durham, NC to the late Alton and Viola Lacefield. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Irvington, NJ, where he grew up with his sisters Lorraine and Thelma Lea. He graduated...
Aubrey Dean Tynch
Jan 9, 2022
Aubrey Dean Tynch, 67, of 327 Harris Landing Road, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, January 9, 2022 in Sentara Leigh Hospital, Norfolk, VA.
Mr. Tynch was born in Chowan County on May 16, 1954, and was the son of the late Charles Spurgeon, Sr. and Thelma Virginia Goodwin Tynch. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by sisters,...
Tommy Councill
Jan 7, 2022
Clyde Thomas “Tommy” Councill, 70, of 113 Gates School Road, Gates, NC, died Friday, January 7, 2022 in his home.
Mr. Councill was born in Gates County on August 10, 1951, and was the son of the late William Thomas and Mary Lee Burton Councill.
A Safety Coordinator with International Paper (formerly Union Camp Corp.), he had been employed there...
Gina Pitts Crocker
Jan 6, 2022
Gina Lin Pitts Crocker, 55, of Sunbury, NC, passed away Thursday, January 6, 2022 in her home.
Born in Kilmarnock, VA, she was the daughter of Barbara Ann Stokes Miller of Suffolk, VA and the late John M. Pitts, Jr. In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by a son, Jonathan Crocker, and by a sister, Tina...
Georgie Goode Altman
Jan 6, 2022
Georgie Goode Altman, 72, of Hertford, NC, passed away Thursday, January 6, 2022 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Mrs. Altman was born in Portsmouth, VA on September 1, 1949, and was the daughter of the late George Milton and Lulabell Rose Friebert Goode. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her son-in-law, James D....
Keith Harrell
Jan 3, 2022
David Keith Harrell, 62, of 2034 Keith Lane, Edenton, NC, died Monday, January 3, 2022 in his home where he was being cared for by family.
Mr. Harrell was born in Hertford County on August 25, 1959, and was the son of the late David Ray Harrell and Myrtle Rachel Harrell. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in...
Kay Frances Greene
Jan 3, 2022
Kay Frances Greene, 86, formerly of Virginia Beach, VA, passed away on Monday, January 3, 2022 at TRUEWOOD by Merrill in Knoxville, TN. She was born on March 29, 1935 to the late Harvey Paul Greene and Olive Maie Greene Boone of Gates, NC.
Kay grew up on the family farm in Gates and graduated in 1953 as salutatorian from...
Marsha Dixon Gregory
Jan 3, 2022
Marsha Dixon Gregory, 68, of 2012 Rocky Hock Road, Edenton, NC, died Monday, January 3, 2022 in Vidant Medical Center, Greenville.
Mrs. Gregory was born in Franklin, VA on June 22, 1953, and was the daughter of Jackie Hall Dixon of Edenton and the late Charles Thomas “C.T.” Dixon, Jr.
A graduate of Mitchell’s Beauty School, she had worked as...
Barbara Harrell Parker
Jan 2, 2022
Barbara Harrell Parker, 78, of 366 Rooks Road, Gates, NC, died Sunday, January 2, 2022 in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, VA.
Mrs. Parker was born in Gates County on April 20, 1943, and was the daughter of the late Langley Taylor Harrell, Sr. and Agnes Parker Harrell. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brothers,...
Patty Madry
Jan 1, 2022
Patricia Ann “Patty” Smith Madry, 78, of 503 Seaview Drive, Edenton, NC, died Saturday, January 1, 2022 in her home.
Patty was born in Greensboro, NC on March 5, 1943, and was the daughter of the late Norman and Dora Smith. The retired Director of Chowan County Emergency Medical Services, she will be remembered by many for her love of...
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