Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
John Ralph Brabble
Dec 9, 2020
John Ralph Brabble, 100, formerly of Soundside Road, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, December 9, 2020 in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.
Mr. Brabble was born in Chowan County on February 5, 1920, and was one of eight children born to the late John Wilson Brabble and Varena Harris Brabble. A retired board Sawyer in the lumber industry, he was...
Cecil Thomas Taylor
Dec 7, 2020
Cecil Thomas Taylor, (affectionately known as “Seed Tick”), 100, of 020 Corner High Road, Eure, NC, passed away on Monday, December 7, 2020. A Pearl Harbor Survivor, who served in the Army during World War II, it was fitting that he died on Pearl Harbor Day, a day President Franklin Roosevelt described as “a date which will live in infamy”.
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Calvin Piland
Dec 6, 2020
Hollis Calvin Piland, 74, of Kellogg Fork Road, Corapeake, NC, died Sunday, December 6, 2020, in Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie.
Mr. Piland was born in Gates County on September 22, 1946, and was the son of the late Hollis Benjamin and Nellie Jones Piland. Retired after 39 years in the shipping department of Union Camp Corp., now International Paper, he...
Leslie Lee Narron
Dec 5, 2020
Leslie Lee Narron, 85, of River Front Drive, Hertford, NC, passed away on Saturday, December 5, 2020, in The Edenton House.
Mr. Narron was born in Wilson, North Carolina on November 10, 1935, and was the son of the late Leamon L. and Nola Deans Narron. Retired after 30 years with the Norfolk Assembly Plant of Ford Motor Company, he...
Madge Copeland Bunch
Nov 30, 2020
Madge Elaine Copeland Bunch, 88, of 104 Morris Circle, Edenton, NC, died Monday, November 30, 2020, in Elizabeth City Health & Rehabilitation.
Mrs. Bunch was born in Chowan County on February 13, 1932, and was the daughter of the late Milton Cortez and Eva Jane Lane Copeland. A homemaker, she had formerly been employed with the Edenton School System, working...
Terry Reese Midgett
Nov 30, 2020
Terry Reese Midgett, 60, AZ2, USN Retired, of 233 Jacocks Lane, Hertford, NC, died Monday, November 30, 2020, in his home.
Mr. Midgett was born in Pasquotank County on August 30, 1960, and was the son of Leland Reese and Alpean Hooper Midgett of Hertford. Retired from the United States Navy after more than 20 years of service, he later...
Betty Culpepper Carroll
Nov 28, 2020
Betty Jo Culpepper Carroll, 80, of 585 Folly Road, Sunbury, NC, died Saturday, November 28, 2020, in her home.
Mrs. Carroll was born in Chesapeake, Virginia, on December 11, 1939, and was the daughter of the late Harry Joseph and Helen Joyce Bradshaw Culpepper. She had retired from the Virginia Beach Public School System.
In addition to parents, she was...
Gail Johnson Daneker
Nov 27, 2020
Gail Johnson Daneker, 76, of 100 N. Front St., Hertford, NC, died Friday, November 27, 2020 in her home.
Mrs. Daneker was born in Hertford on September 19, 1944, and was the daughter of the late Charles Edward and Mary Lucille Broughton Johnson. A retired nurse, she was in the first nursing class to graduate from the College of The...
Lyonel Byrum
Nov 27, 2020
Kelford Lyonel Byrum, 82, of 1227 New Hope Road, Hertford, NC, died Friday, November 27, 2020 in his home.
Mr. Byrum was born in Chowan County on January 10, 1938, and was the son of the late Kelly Byrum and Beatrice Jordan Byrum Evans. Retired from the Norfolk, VA Assembly Plant of Ford Motor Company, he was a former member...
Sammy Eugene Girardi, Sr.
Nov 26, 2020
Samuel Eugene "Sammy" Girardi, Sr., 78, of 154 Russell Drive, Hertford, NC, died Thursday, November 26, 2020 in his home.
Mr. Girardi was born in Mingo County, West Virginia, on May 6, 1942, and was the son of the late Frank and Erma Ruth Ferrell Girardi. Retired in 1986 as an officer in the K-9 Unit of the Portsmouth, VA...
Jeffery Thomas Powell
Nov 24, 2020
Jeffery Thomas “Jeff” Powell, 62, of 170 Powell Lane, Eure, NC, passed away on Tuesday, November 24, 2020 in his home.
Jeff was a lifelong resident of Gates County, and was the son of Thomas Madison Powell, Sr. of Eure and the late Nellie Cahoon Powell. A carpenter and building contractor, his handiwork can be seen all over Gates County....
Louis Jude Martin
Nov 22, 2020
Louis Jude "Lou" Martin, 92, of 104 Virginia Court, Albemarle Plantation, Hertford, NC, died Sunday, November 22, 2020 in Elizabeth City Health & Rehabilitation Center.
Mr. Martin was born in Clarksburg, West Virginia, on September 7, 1928, and was the son of the late Frank B. and Jeannette Elizabeth Zeller Martin.
Mr. Martin attended West Virginia University as a Pre-Med...
Terry Alan Redenz
Nov 20, 2020
Terry Alan Redenz, 76, of 120 Whitetail Court, Hertford, NC, passed away Friday, November 20, 2020 in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Mr. Redenz was born in Milwaukee, WI on November 1, 1944, and was the son of the late Clarence P. Redenz and Ruth Holmes Redenz. A retired supervisor construction from Verizon, he was a US Navy veteran....
Blanche Russell Lane Davidson
Nov 20, 2020
Blanche Russell Lane Davidson, 97, of Cannon's Ferry Road, Tyner, NC, passed away Friday, November 20, 2020 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton.
Mrs. Davidson was born in Perquimans County on November 8, 1923, and was the daughter of the late William D. "Will" Russell and Gertrude Smith "Gertie" Russell. A retired inspector with the former Elizabeth City Hosiery Mill, among...
Ida Campen Odom Miller
Nov 16, 2020
Ida Campen Odom Miller passed away on Monday, November 16, 2020, at age 76.
Born in Chowan County on February 18, 1944, she was the daughter of the late Henry Allison “Izzy” Campen and Catherine Pruden Campen of Edenton, North Carolina.
Ida graduated from Edenton High School, attended UNC-Greensboro for two years, and finished with a business degree from East...
Nina Braswell White Motzno
Nov 12, 2020
Nina Paige Braswell White Motzno died peacefully at the home of her daughter on November 12, 2020 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Nina was born in Northampton County, North Carolina on November 5, 1925. She was preceded in death by her parents, Willie Spivey Braswell and Willie Lewis Braswell, her brothers, Willie Lewis Braswell, Jr. and Robert "Bob" Ellis Braswell, and her...
Kent Douglas Smith
Nov 11, 2020
Kent Douglas Smith, 78, of 250 No Say Lane, Cofield, NC, died Wednesday, November 11, 2020 in Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie.
Mr. Smith was born in Suffolk, VA on February 9, 1942, and was the son of the late Lonnie G. Smith, Sr. and Sallie Bazemore Smith. A retired truck driver and supervisor with Britt Services, he was a member...
Robert James Lawson
Nov 11, 2020
Robert James “Bob” Lawson, 71, of Hobbs Acre Drive, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, November 11, 2020 in his home.
Mr. Lawson was born in Middlesex County, MA on November 16, 1948 and was the son of the late Kathryn I. Hartinger Lawson. The retired owner and operator of RJL Realty Trust, he was a strong supporter of law enforcement, a...
Jacqueline Williams Rowland
Nov 10, 2020
Jacqueline Williams "Jackie" Rowland, of Edenton, NC passed away Tuesday, November 10, 2020.
Born in Portsmouth, VA, she was the daughter of the late Weems "Bud" and Clara Williams.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by the love of her life, Fred Rowland, her husband of over 54 years.
Jackie loved being a homemaker and was...
Irvin Taylor
Nov 10, 2020
Irvin Taylor, 103, of Chesapeake, VA, went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, November 10, 2020.
A native of Gates County, NC, he was born on May 17, 1917 to the late Linwood and Tellie Speight Taylor. A graduate of Gates High School, Mr. Taylor retired from farming and also later from the Norfolk and Western Railroad. He was...
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