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July 03, 2022
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Hockaday Funeral Service

Robin Edd Lancaster

02 July
Surrounded by love and comfort, Robin Edd Lancaster, 49, passed away peacefully the morning of July 1, 2022 at ECU Health Medical Center...
Askew Funeral Service

John Hugh Bazemore

01 July
John Hugh Bazemore died on June 27, 2022 at the age of 84. He was the only son of Hugh and Bertha Willoughby Bazemore. His sisters...
Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home

William Woodrow Shearin

29 June
William Woodrow Shearin, 86, died at his home, surrounded by family Monday, June 27, 2022. Mr. Shearin was born in Northampton County,...
Hockaday Funeral Service

Wayne Arnold Keeter

28 June
Mr. Wayne Arnold Keeter, 84, reached his home in Glory on Sunday morning, June 26, 2022 from his Roanoke Rapids home. Wayne was born April...
Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home

Charles Edward 'Eddie' Wright Jr.

28 June
Charles Edward “Eddie” Wright, Jr., 73, died at his residence while surrounded by his family, Sunday, June 26, 2022. Eddie was born in...

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Tony Ray Green

June 22 Hockaday Funeral Service 2230
Tony Ray Green, 61, passed away Friday, June17, 2022, after being involved in a traffic accident. Tony was born December 8, 1960, at Watts Hospital in Durham, NC. {gallery}62222green{/gallery} He...

Dru Mealhouse Davis

June 22 Askew Funeral Service 1502
Dru Mealhouse Davis, age 65, passed away peacefully on Sunday, June 19, 2022. Born August 24, 1956, Dru was the daughter of the late Mary Frances (Frankie) Bendall. She was also preceded in death by...

David Lynn Carter

June 21 Hockaday Funeral Service 2145
David Lynn Carter, 51, of Roanoke Rapids, passed away on Saturday, June 11, 2022. David Lynn was born on Nov. 16, 1970, son to Samuel David Carter and Edith Jones Carter. He was preceded in death by...

Mayor Willie Thomas 'Tommy' Barrett Jr.

June 16 Askew Funeral Service 1787
Mayor Willie Thomas “Tommy” Barrett, Jr., 75 of Conway, North Carolina passed away on Tuesday, June 14, 2022. He was born in Northampton County on March 24, 1947 to the late Willie Thomas Barrett,...

Amerlius Ferguson Miles

June 13 Askew Funeral Service 1793
Amerlius Ferguson Miles, was born on November 1, 1940, at the home of her parents Moses and Virginia Ferguson in Northampton County. She was raised in Occoneechee Neck along with 9 other siblings....

Nancy Elizabeth Carawan

June 13 Askew Funeral Service 1678
Nancy Elizabeth Carawan, 90, went to heaven on June 12, 2022. She was born in Lowland, North Carolina on October 29, 1931 and moved to Roanoke Rapids, NC with her family in 1933. Nancy was the...

Helen Owens Brandt Smith

June 13 Hockaday Funeral Service 2657
Helen Owens Brandt Smith went home to her Lord and Savior on a beautiful Sunday morning June 12, 2022. She had lived, taught and shared her Lord with others for over seventy five years. When Helen...

Joline Ray Matthews

June 10 Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home 1681
Joline Ray Matthews, 94, passed away on June 2, 2022. She was the daughter of the late Ged Ray and Pearl Brigman. She is a mother of 4 children, and a military wife to Sgt. Major James L Matthews...

Virginia 'Shirley' Harris Ellis

June 09 Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home 1988
Virginia “Shirley” Harris Ellis, 85, died Tuesday, June 07, 2022, in ECU North Hospital in Roanoke Rapids. Ms. Ellis was born in Northampton County, NC, May 23, 1937, daughter to the late George W....

Sarah R. Grant

June 09 Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home 1771
Sarah R. Grant, 76, died in Jackson, NC Monday, June 6, 2022. Ms. Grant was born in New York state, daughter to the late William W., Jr. and Lillie Mae Floyd Grant. After graduating high school, Ms....

Henry Chester Brown Jr.

June 09 Askew Funeral Service 1607
Henry Chester Brown, Jr. 69 of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina passed away on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at UNC Nash General Hospital. He was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina on April 22, 1953 to the...

Scott Nelson Smith

June 09 Hockaday Funeral Service 1062
On June 7, 2022, Scott Nelson Smith went to live with his Heavenly Father. His 64 years on this earth were filled with numerous experiences, starting with his growing up the only son of Nelson and...

Janet Elaine Murray

June 08 Funeral Service 1087
A memorial service will be held on June 11, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. for Jan Murray at All Saints Episcopal Church., 700 Roanoke Avenue, Roanoke Rapids, NC. Janet Elaine Murray, age 69, formerly of Roanoke...

Scott Nelson Smith

June 08 Hockaday Funeral Service 1241
Scott Nelson Smith, 64, of Roanoke Rapids passed away Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at Duke University Medical Center in Durham. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, June 14, 2022, in the chapel of...

Leigh Sweat Eure

June 06 Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home 3255
Leigh Sweat Eure, 68, passed away on June 3, 2022. She was a member of New Testament Christian Church and was the daughter of the late Ernest E. Sweat and Gladys S. Sweat. She was preceded in death...

Marcus Alton Garriss Jr.

June 03 Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home 3596
Marcus Alton Garriss, Jr. of Roanoke Rapids passed away on May 30th, 2022, with his family at his bedside. “Mark” was born on February 8th, 1942, in Halifax County. He was a 1960 graduate of Weldon...

Linda Dickens Spragins

June 02 Askew Funeral Service 2562
Linda Larnell Dickens Spragins January 13, 1943 - May 26, 2022 Linda passed from this earth to her Lord and Master Jesus on Thursday, May 26, 2022. She was born January 13, 1943; the daughter of...

Benjamin Randall Horrell Sr.

June 02 Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home 3080
Benjamin Randall Horrell Sr., 71, passed away on June 1, 2022. He was the son of the late Benjamin Carlyle Horrell and Margaret Eleanor English Horrell. He was preceded in death by his parents,...

Lloyd Ervin Bennett

June 01 Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home 1995
Lloyd Ervin Bennett, 89, died May 30, 2022 in Cary, North Carolina. Mr. Bennett was born in Greensville County, VA, May 24, 1933, son to the late Robert Evans and Ethel High Bennett. He was preceded...

Joseph Don 'Joe' Dills

June 01 Hockaday Funeral Service 1963
Joseph Don (Joe) Dills, 84, died on Sunday May 29th, 2022. Joe was born May 19th, 1938, a son of the late Mac and Essie Ledford Dills of Franklin, NC. He was preceded in death by his parents, a...