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Sandra Gibson Slade
Dec 15, 2020
Sandra Denise Gibson Slade, 49, of Hertford, NC, passed away Tuesday, December 15, 2020 in her home.
Mrs. Slade was born in Norfolk, VA on November 21, 1971, and was the daughter of the late William Earl Gibson and Dorothy Ann Nix Gibson. A homemaker, she was a member of Towne South Church of Christ in Elizabeth City. In addition...
Susan Cole Nixon
Dec 14, 2020
Susan Thompson Cole Nixon, of 103 Oak Ridge Drive, Edenton, NC, died Monday, December 14, 2020, her 70th birthday, in her home where she was cared for by her family.
Mrs. Nixon was born in Columbus County and was the daughter of the late Willard and Marjorie Koonce Cole. Receiving her Masters in Special Education from East Carolina University, she...
Maynard Lewis Selleck
Dec 14, 2020
Maynard Lewis Selleck, US Navy, Retired, 80, of Hertford, NC, passed away Monday, December 14, 2020, in Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation.
Mr. Selleck was born in Roanoke, VA on July 21, 1940, and was the son of the late John Lewis Selleck and Frances Marie Ward Selleck. A retired Master Chief and veteran of the Vietnam War, he proudly...
Betty Gail Chappell Sawyer
Dec 13, 2020
Betty Gail Chappell Sawyer, 71, of Dobbs Street, Hertford, NC, formerly of Belvidere, passed away Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, in Chesapeake, VA., after a brief illness.
Born in Pasquotank County in 1949, she was the daughter of Juanita Virginia Spivey Chappell of Hertford and the late Gailey Lee Chappell. In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by...
Joyce Ann Boyce Jernigan
Dec 13, 2020
Joyce Ann Boyce Jernigan, 79, of Elizabeth City, NC, passed away Sunday, December 13, 2020 in The Gates House, Gatesville.
Mrs. Jernigan was born in Pasquotank County on November 23, 1941, and was the daughter of the late Jep Thomas Boyce and Madeline Trueblood Boyce Toler. A homemaker, she was a member of Pearl Street Pentecostal Church. In addition to...
Larry Sidney Hughes
Dec 11, 2020
Larry Sidney Hughes, 73, of 127 Capehart Church Road, Merry Hill, NC, died Friday, December 11, 2020, in his home where he was being cared for by his family.
Mr. Hughes was born in Bertie County on April 21, 1947, and was the son of the late Willie Sidney “Dag” Hughes and Alice Grey Dawson Hughes. A retired poultry farmer,...
Hilda Warren Hughes
Dec 10, 2020
Hilda Mae Warren Hughes, 90, of Merry Hill, NC, passed away Thursday, December 10, 2020 in Vidant Chowan Hospital, Edenton.
Mrs. Hughes was born in Pitt County on February 15, 1930, and was the daughter of the late James Henry Warren and Hilda Geneva Bullock Warren. A homemaker, she was an active member of Capehart’s Baptist Church. In addition to...
Sylvia Wrae Copeland Morgan
Dec 9, 2020
Sylvia Wrae Copeland Morgan, 81, of Oakdale Drive, Edenton, NC, died Wednesday, December 9, 2020 in her home.
Mrs. Morgan was born in Perquimans County on January 11, 1939, and was the daughter of the late Basil W. and Sylvia Lamb Copeland. Retired as the manager of Morgan’s Rest Home, later Country Oaks Manor, in Hertford, she was raised in...
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...
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