Local obituaries for Miller & Van Essendelft Funeral Homes & Crematory
"Nancy" Anne Langhorne Mordecai
Sep 13, 2019
Anne Langhorne “Nancy” Wood Carson Mordecai, 92, of Raleigh and Edenton, NC, died on September 13, 2019, at her residence, in the former Edenton Cotton Mill of which her grandfather Julien Wood in 1898 had been an incorporator.
Born September 25, 1926, in Baltimore, to James Edward “Jim” Wood of Edenton and Anne Langhorne Kemp Wood, niece of Nancy Langhorne...
Richard Woodrow "Dick" Lowe
Sep 12, 2019
Richard Woodrow “Dick” Lowe, 81, of 907 Lakeview Drive in Clinton, NC, and formerly a longtime resident of Edenton, NC and Williamsburg, VA, died Thursday, September 12, 2019.
Mr. Lowe was born in Bertie County on August 28, 1938, and was the son of the late Deford Woodrow and Carrie Pearl “Polly” Manning Lowe. A retired farmer, he was raised...
Joseph Williams
Sep 11, 2019
After a long and productive life, Joseph Williams of Hertford, NC, passed away on September 11, 2019 while in Hospice Care at the age of 79. He leaves behind his partner of over 30 years, Ruth Mengel; his two daughters and their husbands, Jo Anne and John Wilkerson, and Jackie and John Lancaster; Ruth’s daughter Susan Revels; and a collective...
Sandra Piland Ward
Sep 11, 2019
Sandra Kay Piland Ward, 75, of 702 North Main Street, Winton, NC, died Wednesday, September 11, 2019, in Accordius Health at Creekside, Ahoskie.
Mrs. Ward was born in Bertie County on August 2, 1944, and was the daughter of the late J. Clinton and Lennie Leigh Jernigan Piland. A graduate of Troutman’s Beauty School in Raleigh, she had worked in...
Dorothy Saunders Layden
Sep 11, 2019
Dorothy Lois Saunders "Dot" Layden, 99, of Edenton, NC, passed away Wednesday, September 11, 2019, in Edenton House.
Mrs. Layden was born in Chowan County on January 30, 1920, and was one of eight children born to the late Octavius and Isabelle Twine Saunders. A retired waitress, she was employed with Boswell's Restaurant and prior to that with Colonial Motor...
Quincy Riddick
Sep 11, 2019
John Quincy Riddick, 94, of 115 Hickory Cross Road, Belvidere, NC, died Wednesday, September 11, 2019, in The Gates House, Gatesville.
Mr. Riddick was born in Perquimans County on October 9, 1924, and was the son of the late George Robert, Sr. and Margaret Louise Winslow Riddick. A retired farmer, he later worked for many years as a US Postal...
Ann Jane Meads
Sep 10, 2019
Ann Jane Meads, 69, formerly of Meadstown Road, Elizabeth City, NC, died Tuesday, September 10, 2019, in Heritage Care of Elizabeth City.
Born in Pasquotank County on November 2, 1949, she was the daughter of the late John Luton and Lillian Markham Meads. A retired insurance agent, she had been employed for many years with Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
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Carolyn Lane Parker
Sep 10, 2019
Carolyn Ann Lane Parker, 81, of 65 Folly Road, Sunbury, NC, died Tuesday morning, September 10, 2019, in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, VA.
Mrs. Parker was born in Chowan County on August 28, 1938, and was the daughter of the late Thomas Edward “Tommy” and Daisy Hurdle Lane. In earlier years, she had worked at Lipton Tea in Suffolk, but...
Myrna Marlene Weiske Shafer
Sep 10, 2019
Myrna Marlene Weiske Shafer, 84, of 160 Schooner Landing Drive, Edenton, NC, died peacefully in her home on Tuesday, September 10, 2019.
A much-loved wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and aunt, Myrna was born in Kossuth County, IA on July 12, 1935 and raised in Burt, IA along with seven siblings. Her parents, Edwin Richard and Helen Marie Ollum Weiske, three...
Michael Eugene Copeland
Sep 9, 2019
Michael Eugene Copeland, 59, of 101 Oakdale Drive, Edenton, NC, died Monday, September 9, 2019, in his home.
Mr. Copeland was born in Richmond, Virginia on October 4, 1959, and was the son of Sylvia W. Morgan of Edenton, and the late Carlton Eugene Copeland. Employed with All-In-One Mechanical, he was an HVAC installation and repair technician. An avid hunter,...
A.D. Lowman
Sep 7, 2019
Aithes Denver “A.D.” Lowman, SCPO, US Navy Ret., 92, of Horton Lane, Eure, NC, died Saturday, September 7, 2019, in Vidant Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie.
Mr. Lowman was born in Burke County on July 25, 1927, and was the son of the late Alvin Lester and Annie Mae Lowman. A retired Senior Chief Petty Officer, he served for 30 years in...
Hugh Robert Maxwell
Sep 7, 2019
Hugh Robert Maxwell, 84, of 2595 Lake Shore Road, Creswell, NC, died Saturday, September 7, 2019, in his home.
Mr. Maxwell was born in Champaign, IL on June 16, 1935, and was the son of the late Rolland and Catherine Rife Maxwell. The retired owner and operator of both Double M. Seed Co. and Somerset Equipment Co., he was a...
Pamela Ann Stevens d'Emery
Sep 6, 2019
Pamela Ann Stevens d'Emery, 73, of Hertford, NC, passed away on Friday, September 6, 2019. She was born on April 24, 1946 in South Orange, NJ to Matthew and Mary Louis Stevens and grew up in Irvington, NJ. She is predeceased by her parents and older brother Jan.
Pam attended St Leo's grammar school, Archbishop Walsh High School and then...
Sam Cox
Sep 4, 2019
Graham Samuel Cox, 82, passed away on Wednesday, September 4, 2019, in his home in Edenton, NC.
Mr. Cox was born in Onslow County on November 26, 1936, and was the son of the late Willie Crawford Cox, a farmer, and Sadie Kellum Cox, a schoolteacher. The youngest of four children, he grew up working on the family farm near...
Flora Ward Hurdle
Sep 2, 2019
Flora Ward Hurdle, 92, of Belvidere, NC, passed away Monday, September 2, 2019 in her son's home in Belvidere, where she was surrounded by her family.
Mrs. Hurdle was born in Perquimans County on April 15, 1927, and was the daughter of the late Thomas D. and Mattie Twine Ward. A homemaker, loving wife, and caring mother, she devoted her...
Annette Hollowell Downum
Sep 2, 2019
Annette Hollowell Downum, 83, of Queen Anne Drive, Edenton, NC, died Monday, September 2, 2019, in Elizabeth City Health & Rehabilitation Center.
Mrs. Downum was born in Gates County on January 7, 1936, and was the daughter of the late Frelian and Virgie Parks Hollowell. A retired receptionist, she had worked with her husband, the late Dr. Allen F. Downum,...
Mark Edward Collins
Sep 2, 2019
Mark Edward Collins, 64, of 113 River Cove Lane, Hertford, NC, passed away Monday, September 2, 2019.
Born in Washington D.C. on November 13, 1954, he was the son of the late Leroy and Barbara Jean Lodovichetti Collins. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, Kenneth Harris.
Surviving are his wife of 27 years,...
Willard Blanchard Nixon
Sep 1, 2019
Willard Blanchard Nixon, 72, of 695 Saunders Road, Gates, NC, died Sunday, September 1, 2019, in Sentara Obici Hospital, Suffolk, VA.
Mr. Nixon was born in Chowan County on April 3, 1947, and was the son of the late H. Lloyd and Virginia Lee Blanchard Nixon. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received...
J. Pressley "Jack" Byrd, Jr.
Aug 30, 2019
J. Pressley “Jack” Byrd, Jr., 90, of the Twin Lakes Community in Burlington, NC, and formerly a longtime resident of Sunbury, NC, died Friday, August 30, 2019.
Mr. Byrd was born in Nansemond County, Virginia on November 27, 1928, and was the oldest son of the late J. Pressley Byrd, Sr. and Dorothy Lamb Byrd. Retired from the Gates County...
Charles William Bradshaw
Aug 29, 2019
Charles William Bradshaw, 88, of the Pea Ridge community, Roper, NC, and formally of The Villages, Florida, died at home with family on Thursday, August 29, 2019. He left us as he lived, quietly and gently.
He was the sixth child of the late Sperrell H. and Alma B. Bradshaw. He was also preceded in death by brothers Ralph, James,...
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