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September 12, 2024
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Askew Funeral Service

Franklin Delano Roosevelt 'FD' Hubbard

09 September
Franklin Delano Roosevelt “FD” Hubbard 81, of Littleton, NC passed away on Sunday, September 8, 2024. FD was born in Northampton County to...
Askew Funeral Service

Bertha Davis Taylor

07 September
Bertha Davis Taylor 91, of Pendleton passed away on Thursday, September 5, 2024. She was born in Jackson on March 15, 1933 to the late...
Wrenn Funeral Home

Jacqueline Leigh Summers

05 September
Jacqueline Leigh Summers, 48, of Roanoke Rapids, NC, passed away on Saturday, August 31, 2024. She was born in Rocky Mount, NC in 1976 to...
Hockaday Funeral Service

Letitia 'Tish' Downing Ward

05 September
Letitia “Tish” Downing Ward, 81, of Roanoke Rapids, passed away on Wednesday, September 4, 2024 in her home. Mrs. Ward was born on May 12,...
Hockaday Funeral Service

Ronald Mack Rhea

03 September
Ronald Mack Rhea, 77, of Roanoke Rapids, passed away on Saturday, August 31, 2024 in Emporia Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center. Mr....

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Edmond Forrest Jones

August 27 Askew Funeral Service 1424
Edmond Forrest Jones passed away peacefully at his home on August 26, 2024. He was born on June 9, 1936, in Duplin County, NC to Issac Edmond Jones and Jabez Mobley Jones. He is preceded in death by...

Glenn Edward Garner Sr.

August 27 Hockaday Funeral Service 1683
Glenn Edward Garner Sr., 74 of Halifax, NC passed away peacefully at Signature Healthcare on Monday August 26, 2024, surrounded by family. Glenn was born on June 25, 1950, in Halifax County. He was...

Carrie Ann Haislip Copeland

August 27 Hockaday Funeral Service 1307
Carrie Ann Haslip Copeland, 83, of Roanoke Rapids, passed away on Tuesday, August 27, 2024 in her home. Mrs. Copeland was born on January 4, 1941 in Plymouth, NC, the daughter of the late Carrie...

Zetta Addie Davis

August 27 Wrenn Funeral Home 958
Zetta Addie Davis 66, passed away on August 23, 2024. She is preceded in death by her father, James Allen Tilley and brothers, Johnny Tilley and Timothy Tilley. Addie is survived by her partner of...

Joyce B. McClarnon

August 26 Hockaday Funeral Service 1180
Joyce B. McClarnon, 81, passed away peacefully at her home on August 25, 2024, surrounded by her family. A proud native of Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, Joyce was born on November 25, 1942, to the...

William Allen Greenlee

August 22 Wrenn Funeral Home 1232
William Allen Greenlee, 63, passed away at his residence with his family by his side on Wednesday, August 21, 2024. He is preceded in death by wife Winifred Madacie Riley, his parents, Clarence...

Billy Joe Edmondson

August 21 Hockaday Funeral Service 1804
Billy Joe Edmondson 65 of Roanoke Rapids, NC passed away peacefully at home on Sunday August 18, 2024. Billy was born on April 14, 1959, in Roanoke Rapids. He was preceded in death by his parents...

Gregory Marshall Blanton

August 20 Askew Funeral Service 1677
Gregory Marshall Blanton, 59, born April 2, 1965 in Roanoke Rapids, NC passed away peacefully into the arms of his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on August 19, 2024 surrounded by his family in his...

William Herman Conwell

August 20 Hockaday Funeral Service 1503
William Herman Conwell, 83, of Roanoke Rapids, passed away Tuesday, August 20, 2024 in his residence. Mr. Conwell was born in Halifax County on October 21, 1940, the son of the late Leatha Della...

Barbara Jean Lassiter

August 20 Askew Funeral Service 1059
Barbara Jean Lassiter, 75, passed away on Monday, August 19, 2024 surrounded by her family. She was born in Halifax County on April 22, 1949 to the late John Dalton Taylor and Effie Beatrice Davis...

Herbert 'Bert' Edward Perdue

August 20 Hockaday Funeral Service 1167
Herbert “Bert” Edward Perdue 82 of Roanoke Rapids, NC passed away peacefully at ECU-North surrounded by family on Tuesday August 20, 2024. Herbert was born on November 30, 1941, in Roanoke Rapids....

Stanley Warren Glover

August 19 Hockaday Funeral Service 1169
Stanley Warren Glover, 85 of Greenville was born in Bailey, North Carolina in 1939 to the late Percy Warren Glover and Lola Honeycutt Glover. He passed away at home on August 18, 2024 after a...

Cedric Scott Forsyth

August 13 Hockaday Funeral Service 1911
Cedric Scott Forsyth 62 of Roanoke Rapids, NC passed away on Monday August 12, 2024. Cedric was born on October 22, 1961, in Louisburg, Franklin County. He is preceded by his parents Charlie and...

Mary Nell Bennett

August 13 Hockaday Funeral Service 1877
Mary Nell Bennett, 76, of Roanoke Rapids passed away August 12, 2024, at ECU North Hospital. Nell was born February 2, 1948, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia to the late Eddie Lee Hall and Mabel...

Joyce Arnette Tanner

August 12 Hockaday Funeral Service 2060
Joyce Arnette Tanner, 69, of Roanoke Rapids, passed away on Monday, August 12, 2024 in her home. Mrs. Tanner was born in Halifax County on July 29, 1955, the daughter of the late Ina Mae Hux and...

Desiree Lynne Barnes Bass

August 10 Hockaday Funeral Service 4756
Desiree Lynne Barnes Bass, 53, of Halifax passed away on Wednesday, August 7, 2024. She was born in Chesapeake, VA on January 24, 1971, the daughter of Dreama Barfield Barnes and David Ray Barnes....

Mary Stasia Andrel

August 09 Hockaday Funeral Service 1337
Mary Stasia Andrel, née Witowski Passed peacefully to her heavenly home on Monday, July 29th 2024 surrounded by the love of her family. Mary would have been 100 years old this December first. She...

Drusilla Spence Porch

August 09 Wrenn Funeral Home 1972
Drusilla Spence Porch, 75, passed away on August 8, 2024. She is preceded in death by her husband, Walter Keeter Porch, parents, Hansel and Dorothy Spence, brother, Ricky Spence and sisters, Linda...

Massey services to be held in Wrenn chapel

August 08 Wrenn Funeral Home 1156
Funeral services for Willard Alvin Massey , 99, will be held in the Wrenn Funeral Home Chapel at 1 p.m. today.

Lloyd Edward 'Bubba' Seymour

August 07 Hockaday Funeral Service 1647
Lloyd Edward “Bubba” Seymour, 85 of Roanoke Rapids, NC, passed away peacefully at Bayberry Retirement Home on Tuesday August 6, 2024. “Bubba” was born on June 29, 1939, in Petersburg, Virginia. He...