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January 19, 2022
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Lyman Charles Shipley

18 January
Lyman Charles Shipley, 87, of Roanoke Rapids passed away on Monday, January 17, 2022. He was born to Dan and Grace Cross Shipley on...
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James Dooley Taylor

17 January
James Dooley Taylor, 87, of Roanoke Rapids passed away Sunday, January 16, 2022. Dooley was born November 22, 1934, in Halifax County to...
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Mae Everett Wheeler

16 January
Mae Everette Wheeler, 88, formerly of Roanoke Rapids, went to be with her Lord and Savior Friday afternoon, January 14th, peacefully at...
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Amy Liverman

16 January
Edith Kinnin Liverman (Amy), 67, of Roanoke Rapids, NC gained her angel wings on January 12th at UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill, NC with her...
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Charles Frederick 'Freddie' Parrish

14 January
Charles Frederick “Freddie” Parrish, 81, of Roanoke Rapids passed away Wednesday, January 12, 2022, at home with both his daughters by his...

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Christine Ferguson Walker

January 13 Hockaday Funeral Service 1494
CHRISTINE FERGUSON WALKER Christine Ferguson Walker of Roanoke Rapids, NC died Wednesday, January 12, 2022, three days before her 93rd birthday. Due to the death of her Mother, Evelyn Ferguson, in...

James L. Scott

January 12 Askew Funeral Service 1146
James L. Scott, 100, of Garysburg, North Carolina passed away on Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at Vidant North Hospital in Roanoke Rapids. He was born in Martin County on January 21, 1921 to the late,...

Katherine Waynick Bastian

January 12 Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home 1030
Katherine Waynick Bastian, 89, of Weldon, NC died Saturday, January 8, 2022, at her residence. Mrs. Bastian, was born in Guilford County, NC the daughter of the late Robert Parker Waynick and Lena...

Milton Shearin Inscoe

January 11 Hockaday Funeral Service 1912
Milton Shearin Inscoe, 85, of Littleton, NC, passed away peacefully on Monday, January 10,2022, at The Landings of Lake Gaston in Littleton, with his daughters by his side. Milton was born on August...

Rev. John Edward 'Ed' Morrison

January 11 Hockaday Funeral Service 1309
Rev. John Edward “Ed” Morrison, 79, of Woodlake, passed peacefully at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital on Sunday, January 9th. Born in Roanoke Rapids, July 11, 1942, he was the son of the late...

Michael Edward Sledge

January 11 Hockaday Funeral Service 1337
Mr. Michael Edward Sledge, 60, of Roanoke Rapids died December 28, 2021. He was born in Halifax County on January 16, 1961, the son of Clarence and Barbara Fowler Sledge. He was preceded in death by...

Stacy Ann Shaw

January 11 Askew Funeral Service 1634
Stacy Ann Shaw, 45, died December 11, 2021. Stacy was born in Moore County, NC and was the daughter of Donna Louise Medlin of Moore County, NC. A Paramedic, Stacy worked for Halifax County for...

Nicole Boyce Griffin

January 10 Hockaday Funeral Service 1945
Nicole Boyce Griffin, 47, of Roanoke Rapids passed away Thursday, January 6, 2022, at Grand Strand Regional Medical Center in Myrtle Beach, SC. Nicole was born August 21, 1974, in Lynchburg, VA. She...

Pattie Lassiter Green Johnston

January 07 Hockaday Funeral Service 1846
Mrs. Pattie Lassiter Green Johnston, 78, of Roanoke Rapids died January 5, 2022 at Vidant North Hospital. She was born in Halifax County on April 2, 1943. Mrs. Johnston retired from JP Stevens. She...

Lewis Ray Harris

January 07 Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home 2228
Lewis Ray Harris, 68, of Gaston, died Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, at Vidant North Hospital in Roanoke Rapids. Lewis was born in Roanoke Rapids, the son of the late George W. Harris Jr. and Lina Porch...

Willard 'Martin' Baird Jr.

January 07 Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home 1476
Willard “Martin” Baird Jr., 70, was born on Aug. 12, 1951, in Halifax County, and passed away on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, at UVA Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was preceded in death by his...

Staci Lynne Phillips

January 07 Askew Funeral Service 1706
Staci Lynne Phillips, 39 of Roanoke Rapids, passed away on Saturday, January 1, 2022. She was born in Emporia, Virginia on July 15, 1982 and was preceded in death by her father, Linwood Naff...

Elizabeth Otellia Liles Wilkins

January 06 Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home 1237
​​March 30, 1932 - December 27, 2021 Elizabeth Otellia Liles Wilkins, 89, died on Monday, December 27, 2021 at Lucy Corr Village, Chesterfield, VA. Elizabeth is preceded in death by her parents;...

Jimmie Randall 'Dog' Berwick

January 06 Hockaday Funeral Service 1377
Jimmie Randall “Dog” Berwick, 44, died unexpectedly in his home on January 1, 2022. He was born in Halifax County on October 9, 1977, the son of Johnny Berwick and Judy Harris Berwick. His parents,...

Andrew Thomas Neville

January 05 Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home 2602
Andrew Thomas Neville, 83, of Enfield, passed away peacefully in his home Monday, January 3, 2022. Mr. Neville was born in Halifax County, the son of the late Leonard B. and Bertha Wells Neville. In...

Vivian Cook Reber

January 05 Askew Funeral Service 1244
​​Vivian Cook Reber, 90, passed away on Monday January 3, 2022. She was born June 19, 1931 in Williamsburg County, SC to the late James Robert and Mattie Stewart Cook. Vivian was predeceased by her...

Becky Mahaffey Hux

January 03 Askew Funeral Service 1919
Becky Mahaffey Hux of Chester, Virginia, formerly of Roanoke Rapids died on Thursday December 7, 2021. She was the daughter of the late Charles and Mildred Mahaffey. She loved to read, knit and...

Horace Clifton Boseman

January 03 Hockaday Funeral Service 1681
Horace Clifton Boseman, 91, of 226 Buckingham Drive in Winterville, North Carolina died Sunday, January 2, 2022, at Vidant Hospice in Greenville. He had been a resident of Winterville for the past...

Gertrude Jones Light

January 03 Hockaday Funeral Service 1148
Mrs. Gertrude Jones Light, 92, died Friday, December 31, 2021 in her Littleton home. Mrs. Light was born in Nash County on March 6, 1929, a daughter of Luther Jones and Maggie Garris Jones. She was...

Hazel Birdsong Stallings

January 03 Wrenn, Clarke & Hagan Funeral Home 1374
Hazel Birdsong Stallings, 85, passed away on December 30, 2021, at Vidant Medical Center, Greenville, NC. She was the daughter of the late Lewis F. Birdsong and Helen Harris Birdsong....