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Patsy Johnson Brubaker
Oct 23, 2019
Patsy Johnson Brubaker, 82, of Pine Haven Circle, Gloucester, VA, passed away Wednesday, October 23, 2019, in her home.
Mrs. Brubaker was born in Mitchell County on January 6, 1937, and was the daughter of the late Ted R. and Nonivee McKinney Johnson. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Lester Robert Brubaker; three...
Lloyd Daniel Fisher
Oct 23, 2019
On Wednesday, October 23, 2019, Lloyd Daniel Fisher, loving husband, father, and "Papaw", of Elizabeth City, NC, went to be with the Lord at the age of 90.
Lloyd was born on August 13, 1929 in Sladesville to the late Dan and Lizzie Ball Fisher. Born during the Great Depression, he worked on the family farm until he was drafted...
Bobby Spivey
Oct 17, 2019
Robert Edward “Bobby” Spivey, 84, of Sunbury, NC, passed away on Thursday, October 17, 2019, in Sentara Heart Hospital, Norfolk, VA, where he was surrounded by his family.
Mr. Spivey was born in Gates County on June 10, 1935, and was the last surviving of five children born to the late Sidney Eugene and Margaret Simpson Spivey. Retired from Crossroads...
Merle Newby Byrum
Oct 16, 2019
Merle Newby Byrum, 78, of 523 Happy Home Road, Tyner, NC, died Wednesday, October 16, 2019, in Elizabeth City Health & Rehabilitation Center.
Mrs. Byrum was born in Currituck County on February 26, 1941, and was the daughter of the late Thomas and Arminta Small Newby. A homemaker, she was a member of Happy Home Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Surviving are...
Rodney Allen Ramsey, Jr.
Oct 14, 2019
Rodney Allen Ramsey, Jr., 88, of Oak Grove Road, Edenton, NC, died Monday, October 14, 2019, in Vidant Bertie Hospital, Windsor.
Mr. Ramsey was born in Toledo, Ohio on September 7, 1931, and was the son of the late Rodney A., Sr. and Ellen Warren Ramsey. Retired from IBM where he worked in computer design, he was a Navy veteran...
Alton Gray Elmore
Oct 14, 2019
Alton Gray Elmore, 87, of 320 Yeopim Road, Edenton, NC, died Monday, October 14, 2019, in Vidant Chowan Hospital.
Mr. Elmore was born in Rocky Mount on July 19, 1932, and was the son of the late Albert and Nora Elmore. Educated in the Rocky Mount school system, he served with the Army in the Korean War, and later worked...
Chadwick Vann Copeland
Oct 13, 2019
Chadwick Vann Copeland, 49, of 2349 Virginia Road, Edenton, NC, died Sunday, October 13, 2019, as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
Chad was born in Pitt County on August 4, 1970, and was the son of James Kenneth Copeland, Jr. and Constance Boyce Copeland of Edenton. Formerly employed with Albemarle Boats, he spent over 20 years...
Alvin Franklin Earley
Oct 11, 2019
Alvin Franklin Earley, 76, of Drummonds Point Road, Edenton, NC, died Friday, October 11, 2019, as the result of injuries received in an automobile accident.
Mr. Earley was born in Bertie County on June 21, 1943, and was the son of the late Charlie Franklin and Emma Belch Earley. Retired from Weyerhaeuser Corporation, he was a member of The Loyal...
Rodney Tuttle Harrell, Jr.
Oct 11, 2019
Rodney Tuttle Harrell, Jr., 90, of 602 E. Church Street Extended, Edenton, NC, died Friday, October 11, 2019, in Chowan River Nursing & Rehabilitation Center.
Mr. Harrell was born in Chowan County on March 5, 1929, one of four children born to the late Rodney T. Harrell, Sr. and Bessie Leary Harrell. Retired as a rural carrier with the Edenton...
Peggy Taylor Pierce
Oct 10, 2019
Peggy Taylor Pierce, 73, of 196 Catherine Creek Road, Hobbsville, NC, died Thursday, October 10, 2019, in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, Virginia.
Mrs. Pierce was born in Suffolk on August 21, 1946 and was the daughter of the late Millard Richard Taylor, Sr. and Norene Umphlett Taylor. A retired Dietician with the Gates County Public School System, she was a...
Esther Grogan Cookman
Oct 10, 2019
Esther Grogan Cookman, 93, formerly of Dunn, NC, and more recently of 1926 NC Hwy 45 North, Colerain, NC, passed away on Thursday, October 10, 2019.
Mrs. Cookman was born in Washington, DC on September 3, 1926, and was the daughter of the late Emerson G. and Ruby Alley Grogan. A homemaker and pastor’s wife, she had served as the...
Christine Odom Cabral
Oct 9, 2019
Christine Elizabeth Odom Cabral, 94, passed away Wednesday, October 9, 2019 in her son's home in Hertford, NC.
Born in Suffolk, VA on March 15, 1925, she was the daughter of the late Ira and Martha Lucy Nelms Odom and the widow of the late Edmund Rego Cabral. A cheerful individual who seldom met a stranger, she always loved to...
Thelma Lane Smith
Oct 7, 2019
Thelma Lane Smith, 101, of 520 Lake Road, Hertford, NC, passed away Monday, October 7, 2019, in Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, Elizabeth City.
Mrs. Smith was born in Perquimans County on January 1, 1918, and was the daughter of the late John Martin and Martha Ann Alexander "Annie" Lane. A homemaker, she was a member of Victory Baptist Church in...
James Bradley Hall
Oct 3, 2019
James Bradley Hall, 78, of 110 West Academy Street, Colerain, NC, passed away Thursday, October 3, 2019 in his home.
Mr. Hall was born in Bertie County on February 19, 1941, and was the son of the late Jim and Mary Bradley Hall. A retired truck driver, he was a member of Sunbeam Baptist Church in Franklin, VA and attended...
Florence Darden Christensen
Oct 2, 2019
Florence Darden Christensen, 97, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, October 2, 2019 in her home in Hertford, NC.
Born on April 15, 1922 in Hertford, she was the daughter of the late Vivian Norfleet and Lanette Porter Darden. She is survived by her daughter, Lynn (Bob); her son, John (Susan); her daughter, Christine (Mike); her son, Robert (Judy); nine grandchildren,...
Mary Pierce Baker
Oct 2, 2019
Mary Lorine Pierce Baker, 70, of 2220 Virginia Road, Edenton, NC, died peacefully Wednesday, October 2, 2019, in the Palliative Care Suite of Vidant Chowan Hospital.
Mary was born in Hertford County on November 25, 1948, one of three daughters born to the late Frank Elliott Pierce and Louise Britt Pierce of the Sunbury Community in Gates County. She was...
Robert Gerald Sawyer
Oct 2, 2019
Robert Gerald Sawyer, 73, of 274 Body Road, Hertford, NC, died Wednesday, October 2, 2019 in his home.
Mr. Sawyer was born in Camden County on February 28, 1946, and was the son of the late Talmon Berry Sawyer and Rosalie Ballance Hardy. A retired truck driver with Quality Seafood, he was a member of Bak-N-Tyme Cruzers and enjoyed collecting...
Norene Lassiter Spivey
Sep 30, 2019
Norene Lassiter Spivey, 83, of 302 Zion Road, Sunbury, NC, died Monday, September 30, 2019, in Accordius Health & Rehabilitation Center, Gatesville.
Mrs. Spivey was born in Chowan County on February 15, 1936, and was the daughter of the late Walter V. “Jack” Lassiter and Elsie Hobbs Lassiter. A homemaker, she was a member of Cool Spring Baptist Church, had...
Buddy Glenn Lilley
Sep 28, 2019
Glenn Newman “Buddy Glenn” Lilley, Jr., 88, of 400 Lilley Lane, Gatesville, NC, died Saturday, September 28, 2019, in his home.
Mr. Lilley was born in Gates County on March 18, 1931, and was the son of the late Glenn N. Lilley, Sr. and Elma Barnes Lilley. An Army veteran and a graduate of North Carolina State University, he was...
Cornelia Hare Perry
Sep 27, 2019
Cornelia Hare Perry, 97, of 110-B Wingfield Road, Tyner, NC, died Friday, September 27, 2019, at her daughter’s home.
Mrs. Perry was born in Chowan County on December 12, 1921, and was the daughter of the late David Richard and Mamie McClenney Hare. A homemaker, she was a faithful member of Ballard’s Bridge Baptist Church, its Nina-Aurelia Sunday School Class,...
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