Mr. James Dickens Obituary Tarboro, North Carolina Mr. James Allen Dickens, 70, died Thursday, October 19, 2017 at Vidant Edgecombe Hospital in Tarboro, N.C. Funeral services will be held 1:00 p.m. Saturday, October 28, 2017 at Pines Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, with Rev. E. Ray Bynum officiating. Burial will follow in Pineview Cemetery in Pinetops, N.C. He is survived by three brothers Edward (Betty) Dickens, Willie Maurice (Janet) Dickens, Calvin (Lisa) Dickens of Pinetops N.C., three sisters Dorothy Gray Dupree, Clara Dickens Cobb (Charlie), Delores Williams (Thomas) of Pinetops, N.C. A viewing will be held from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Friday, October 27, 2017 at Dickens Funeral Service, Inc. These services have been entrusted to Dickens Funeral Service, Inc. of Tarboro, N.C.