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January 21, 2025
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Catherine Marie Lassiter Newsome

19 January
Catherine Marie Lassiter Newsome, 68, passed away on Saturday, January 18, 2024. She is preceded in death by her parents, Alfred Hasker...
Hockaday Funeral Service

William Lafayette Hudson

18 January
William Lafayette Hudson passed away on Saturday, January 18, 2025 in ECU Health North Hospital. He was preceded in death by his parents,...
Hockaday Funeral Service

Paul Taylor 'Ty' Johnston Jr.

17 January
Paul Taylor Johnston, Jr. “Ty” died at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina in the afternoon hours on Thursday, January 16, 2025...
Hockaday Funeral Service

Leemond E. 'Boots' Branch

17 January
Leemond E. "Boots" Branch, (95), passed away on Friday, January 17, 2025, in his home. Boots, a lifelong resident of Weldon, NC, was born...
Askew Funeral Service

Sally 'Josephine' Brockwell Twisdale Davis

17 January
It is with great sorrow that the family of Sally “Josephine” Brockwell Twisdale Davis announce her passing on January 14, 2025. She was...

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Charles Ernest 'Chuck' Williamson III

January 16 Wrenn Funeral Home 695
Charles Ernest Williamson III “Chuck”, 69, passed away on Friday, January 3, 2025. He is preceded in death by his parents, Charles Ernest Williamson Jr., and Helen Frances Vaughan Williamson, and...

Lynn Walton

January 14 Hockaday Funeral Service 1407
Lynn Walton, 56, of Roanoke Rapids passed away on January 12, 2025, at her home surrounded by her loved ones. Lynn was born August 28, 1968, in Martinsville, VA to Faye Moseley Dunlow of Roanoke...

Rufus Taylor 'Rabbit' Newton Jr.

January 13 Hockaday Funeral Service 1376
Rufus Taylor “Rabbit” Newton, Jr., 84, of Roanoke Rapids, passed away on Saturday, January 11, 2024, in his home. Mr. Newton was born on December 12, 1940, in Warren County, son of the late Annie...

Oral Vade Lynch Jr.

January 10 Hockaday Funeral Service 1142
Oral Vade Lynch Jr, 50, of Durham, NC passed away peacefully on Tuesday, January 7, 2025. He was born on August 29, 1974, in Wake County. He is survived by his father Oral Vade Lynch, mother Teresa...

Mary Bray Ellis

January 09 Wrenn Funeral Home 1151
Mary Bray Ellis, 88, passed away on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. She is the daughter of the late Edward Mark Moody and Fannie Mabel Moody. Mary was preceded in death by her husband, Cecil Gray Bray....

Beam services canceled

January 09 Wrenn Funeral Home 782
Funeral services for Ruth Beam have been canceled and will be held at a later date.

Margie Wheeler Holliday

January 07 Wrenn Funeral Home 1117
Margie Wheeler Holliday, 100, passed away on Monday, January 6, 2025. She is preceded in death by her husband, Gilbert Holliday, parents, Jim and Mary Wheeler, daughter, Joy Felts and brother,...

Annie Odom Tripp Smith

January 07 Hockaday Funeral Service 1321
Annie Odom Tripp Smith, 55, of Roanoke Rapids, passed away on Monday, January 6, 2024 in ECU Medical Center in Greenville, NC. Mrs. Smith was born on November 4, 1968 in Halifax County, the daughter...

Gerald Stephen Mitchell

January 07 Funeral Service 844
May 27, 1945 – December 14, 2024 Gerald Stephen Mitchell, 79, of Wilmington, NC passed away Saturday, December 14, 2024, at New Hanover Regional Medical Center. Steve proudly served in the United...

Joyce Connor Burnette

January 07 Askew Funeral Service 901
Joyce Conner Burnette, 77, passed away on Sunday, January 5, 2025. She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph Lee Conner and Katie Byrd Reese Conner Neville. Left to cherish her memory are her...

Gloria Crowder Murphy

January 07 Askew Funeral Service 673
Gloria Crowder Murphy, 90 of Jackson, NC passed away on Saturday, January 4, 2025 at her home. She was born in Northampton County to the late Melvin and Elma Storey Crowder and was preceded in death...

Dickens services to be held at Hockaday chapel

January 07 Hockaday Funeral Service 451
Due to the impending weather predicted for Saturday the services for Ronald Simon Dickens I will be held in the Hockaday Chapel at 1:00 p.m. with Pastor Jason Yeatts presiding.

Sarah Lee McCarter Cranford

January 05 Wrenn Funeral Home 1115
Sarah Lee McCarter Cranford passed peacefully on January 2nd, 2025. She is survived by daughter Collins Roux (Rob Roux), son Scott Cranford, grandchildren, Carter Roux, Sarah Catherine Wood (Joey...

Charles Ernest 'Chuck' Williamson III

January 04 Wrenn Funeral Home 1157
Charles Ernest “Chuck” Williamson III, 69, passed away on Friday, January 3, 2025. He is preceded in death by his parents, Charles Ernest Williamson Jr., and Helen Frances Vaughan Williamson, and...

Sue Faulkner Crisafulli

January 04 Hockaday Funeral Service 962
Sue Faulkner Crisafulli, 68, of Roanoke Rapids, passed away on Thursday, January 2, 2024 at her home. Mrs. Crisafulli was born on June 3, 1955 in Wake County, the daughter of Joyce Boyd and David L....

Carroll A. Beckelman Sr.

January 03 Hockaday Funeral Service 1213
Carroll A. Beckelman Sr. affectionately known as “Beck”, 85, of Roanoke Rapids, N.C. passed away peacefully in his home surrounded by family on December 31, 2024. Born on May 8,1939 in Washington...

Ronald Simon Dickens I

January 03 Hockaday Funeral Service 965
Ronald Simon Dickens I, 78, born December 18th, 1946, of Roanoke Rapids, NC formerly of Scotland Neck, NC passed away on December 31st, 2024. He is preceded in death by his parents Simon Noble...

Ruth Kay Beam

January 03 Wrenn Funeral Home 842
Ruth Kay Beam, passed away on December 16, 2024. She is preceded in death by her parents, David Samuel Beam and Lucille Carter Beam, sister, Rachel Vincent, brother, David Glenn Beam Sr., nephew,...

Jamison Carol Jones

January 02 Askew Funeral Service 2012
Jamison Carol Jones, 22, was born on February 27, 2002. She is the daughter of Dwayne Jones, formerly of Emporia, now in Washington, NC, and Sheryl and Joel Mayle of Pleasant Hill. On December 31,...

Krystina 'Krys' Reeve Grimstead

December 31 Askew Funeral Service 1125
Krystina “Krys” Reeve Grimstead, 53, of Littleton, NC passed away on Wednesday, December 25, 2024 at her lake home surrounded by her family. She was born in Columbus, GA on November 14, 1971 and was...