Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
Lottie Ann Leary Hobbs
Nov 8, 2020
Lottie Ann Leary Hobbs, 88, of 36 Sunbury Bank St., Sunbury, NC, passed away November 8, 2020, at Gates House Assisted Living, Gatesville, NC.
Mrs. Hobbs was born in Chowan County on October 8, 1932, and was the daughter of the late Lee and Annie Leary. She worked as a cashier for Rountree and Riddick Mercantile in Sunbury, a teller...
Evelyn Jernigan McCleney
Nov 8, 2020
Evelyn Jernigan McCleney, 98, a former longtime resident of Bennett Street in Washington, NC, and more recently of The Bayberry Inn in Roanoke Rapids, rejoined her husband, Carey, on Sunday, November 8, 2020.
Mrs. McCleney was born on March 19, 1922 in Bertie County and was the daughter of the late Thomas Edward and Bessie Ellis Jernigan. The widow of...
James Bean
Nov 8, 2020
James "Jim" Bean, 79, of Winfall, NC, a retired counselor and math instructor, passed on to be with the Lord on Sunday, November 8, 2020.
Jim loved giving and sharing of himself with his family, friends, and persons hoping for a better future.
At his request and for the love and care of others, he wished there not be a...
Ethel Parker Plyler Newsome
Nov 7, 2020
Ethel Parker Plyler Newsome, 83, of Flat Branch Road, Gatesville, NC, died Saturday, November 7, 2020 in her home.
Mrs. Newsome was born in Gates County on April 27, 1937, and was the daughter of the late Timothy Beaurie Parker and Lillie Waff Smith Parker. A retired Registered Nurse, she had worked with her father-in-law, Dr. Plyler in his office...
June LaPointe Korbusieski
Nov 7, 2020
June LaPointe Korbusieski, 89, of 1003 W. Queen Street, Edenton, NC, died Saturday, November 7, 2020 in her home.
Mrs. Korbusieski was born in Waterbury, CT on April 4, 1931, and was the only child of the late Hervey and Mildred Zuraw LaPointe. The head receptionist at Manchester High School in Manchester, CT, she retired after 20 years. She was...
Eleanor Evans Byrum
Nov 6, 2020
Eleanor White Evans Byrum, 95, of 241 Yellow Hammer Road, Tyner, NC, died Friday, November 6, 2020 in her home where she was cared for by her family.
Mrs. Byrum was born in Chowan County on December 23, 1924, and was the daughter of the late Zacharia Trotman and Effie Louise White Evans. As a child she attended Gum Pond...
Mary Bunch Barrow
Nov 5, 2020
Mary Bunch Barrow, 92, of Edenton, NC, died Thursday, November 5, 2020, in Edenton Primetime.
Mrs. Barrow was born in Chowan County on April 2, 1928, and was the daughter of the late Joseph Alexander and Callie Goodwin Bunch. A retired inspector with George C. Moore Company, she was a member of Edenton Baptist Church.
In addition to her parents,...
Janette Felton Edwards
Nov 5, 2020
Janette Felton Edwards, 73, of 859 Taylor Mill Road, Eure, NC, died Thursday, November 5, 2020 in Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie.
Mrs. Edwards was born in Gates County on September 17, 1947, and was the daughter of the late Mills N. and Ellis Rountree Felton. A homemaker, she was a faithful member of Eure Christian Church where she had served...
Harold Owsley
Nov 4, 2020
Harold Owsley, 82, of Hertford, NC, passed away Wednesday, November 4, 2020 in Sentara Leigh Hospital, Norfolk, VA.
Mr. Owsley was born in Vest, KY on October 12, 1938, and was the son of the late James and Rachel Risner Owsley. A retired supervisor from Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, he was a member of Bethlehem Church of Christ where he had...
Sandra Bunch Moore
Nov 4, 2020
Sandra Faye Bunch Moore, 76, of 2022 NC Highway 37 South, Hobbsville, NC, died Wednesday, November 4, 2020 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton.
Mrs. Moore was born in Chowan County on October 30, 1944, and was the daughter of the late Elisha Timothy “Pete” Bunch and Beulah Modlin Bunch. The retired owner and operator of Rountree & Riddick General Merchandise...
William Homer Spencer
Nov 4, 2020
William Homer "Brother Bill" Spencer, 86, of Hertford, NC, went to his heavenly home on Wednesday, November 4, 2020.
Born in St. Louis County, MO, on March 19, 1934, he was the son of the late Harry Franklin Spencer and Bessie Wilson Spencer. A graduate of Affton High School, he pursued his formal education at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary where...
Gladys Martine Owens
Nov 2, 2020
Gladys Sunghee Martine Owens, 47, of Hobbsville, NC, passed away Monday, November 2, 2020 in Sentara Princess Anne Hospital, Virginia Beach, VA.
Mrs. Owens was born on October 11, 1973 in Delaware, and was the daughter of Robert and Nancy Martine of Hobbsville. Employed as District Secretary and Education Coordinator with USDA Soil and Water Conservation in Gates County, she...
Hubert Ambrose
Nov 1, 2020
Alonza Hubert Ambrose, 89, of NC 32 North, Corapeake, NC, died Sunday, November 1, 2020 in his home where he was cared for by his family.
Mr. Ambrose was born in Chowan County on September 5, 1931, and was the son of the late Alonza Herbert and Doris Ashley Ambrose. A retired mechanic from the John Deere Company in Sunbury,...
Thomas Anthony Koelzer
Nov 1, 2020
Thomas Anthony Koelzer, 71, of Albemarle Plantation, Hertford, NC, passed away Sunday evening, November 1, 2020, in his home with his wife by his side, after a valiant four year fight against pancreatic cancer.
Tom was born in Detroit, Michigan, on March 29, 1949, and was the son of the late Gerald Louis and Mary Helen (Kaslik) Koelzer. He was...
Betsy James Benton
Nov 1, 2020
Betsy Ross James Ward Benton, 90, formerly of the Chowan Beach community, Edenton, NC, and more recently of Ryland Road in Tyner, died Sunday, November 1, 2020.
Betsy was born in Winston-Salem, NC on December 26, 1929, and was the daughter of the late J. Leonard and Warnie Novella Ross James. A homemaker, in earlier years she had worked as...
Daisy Monds Jordan
Oct 31, 2020
Daisy Marie Monds Jordan, 88, of 900 Center Hill Road, Tyner, NC, died Saturday, October 31, 2020 in The Carrolton of Williamston.
Mrs. Jordan was born in Perquimans County on September 16, 1932, and was the daughter of the late Bennie P. and Ruth Perry Monds. A retired nurse from Chowan Hospital in Edenton after nearly 24 years of employment,...
Lois McCarty Spruill
Oct 30, 2020
Lois Catherine McCarty Spruill, 80, of Edenton, passed away Friday, October 30, 2020 in Chowan River Nursing and Rehabilitation.
Mrs. Spruill was born in Portsmouth, VA on December 14, 1939, and was the daughter of the late Constantine Ambrose McCarty, Sr. and Thelma Owens McCarty. Retired from the Exchange Office at the Navy Medical Center in Portsmouth, she was a...
Lydia Clifton Quillin
Oct 27, 2020
Lydia Mae Clifton Quillin, 91, of 1605 Edgewood Drive, Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Tuesday, October 27, 2020 in her home where she was being cared for by her family.
Mrs. Quillin was born in Washington County on February 4, 1929, and was the daughter of the late Sherill Warren and Ida Mary Sawyer Clifton. A homemaker, she was a...
Larry Leamon Vick
Oct 25, 2020
Larry Leamon Vick, 81, of 200 E. Brickell Street, Winton, NC, died Sunday, October 25, 2020 in his home.
Mr. Vick was born in Edgecombe County on July 11, 1939, and was the son of the late Burl Leamon Vick and Bertha Estelle Taylor Vick. A retired bus mechanic with the Hertford County School System, he was a member of...
H.D. Newbern, III
Oct 23, 2020
Horatio Drinkwater "H.D." Newbern, III, 72, of Jarvisburg, NC, passed away Friday, October 23, 2020 in his home.
Mr. Newbern was born in Pasquotank County on April 29, 1948, and was the son of the late Horatio Drinkwater "Buster", Jr. and Della Claire Snipes Newbern. A 1971 graduate of North Carolina State, he farmed for many years and later also...
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