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Obituaries
Barbara Hill Roberts
Jul 20, 2020
Barbara Roberts Obituary Mrs. Barbara Hill Roberts, 64, of Tarboro, North Carolina died Monday, July 20, 2020 at Vidant Edgecombe Hospital of Tarboro, North Carolina. Graveside services will be held on Saturday, July 25, 2020 at 10:00AM at Eastlawn Memorial Gardens, Tarboro North Carolina with Rev. Tommy King officiating. This service will be Live Stream She is survived by one...
Odell Higgs
Jun 18, 2020
Odell Higgs Obituary Ms. Odell Higgs, 95, died Thursday June 18, 2020 at Prodigy Transitional Rehab of Tarboro, North Carolina. Services for Ms. Higgs will take place on Sunday June 21, 2020 in the chapel at Dickens Funeral Home with Rev. Roosevelt Higgs, officiating. Burial will follow at the Eastlawn Memorial Gardens, Tarboro, North Carolina. We will be adhering to...
Eddie Lee Meeks
Jun 17, 2020
Eddie Meeks Obituary Mr. Eddie Lee Meeks of Bethel North Carolina died Thursday June 17, 2020. A Chapel Service will be held on Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 11:00 AM at the funeral home with Rev. Roy Gray officiating. Burial will follow in the Council Cemetery on Highway 13, Bethel North Carolina. He joined the United States Army in 1965...
Cornellous Sherrod
Jun 9, 2020
Cornellous Sherrod Obituary Mr. Cornellous Sherrod, 70, of Tarboro, North Carolina died Tuesday, June 09, 2020 at Vidant Pitt Memorial hospital, Greenville, North Carolina. A graveside service will take place on Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 11:00 AM at Gardens Of Gethsemane, 13670 US Highway 64 Alt. Rocky Mount, North Carolina. We will be adhering to COVID-19 restrictions for this...
Fraley Ingram
Jun 3, 2020
Fraley Ingram Obituary Mr. Fraley Ingram Jr. of Princeville, North Carolina died Wednesday June 3, 2020 at home. Life Celebration service will take place for the immediate family on Monday June 8, 2020 at 12 noon at Dickens Funeral Service Chapel, Tarboro, North Carolina. He is survived by his wife, Rene Arnold Ingram of the home, one son Sharron Walker,...
William Earl Parker
Jun 2, 2020
William Parker Obituary Mr. William Earl Parker, 74, of Tarboro, North Carolina died Tuesday, June 02, 2020 at Vidant Edgecombe Hospital, Tarboro, North Carolina. Life celebration Services will take place for the immediate family at 1:00P.M. on Sunday, June 7,2020 in the Dickens Funeral Service Chapel with Rev. William McKinley Parker officiating. He is survived by his sons, Larry Darnell...
Charles Henry Worsley
May 12, 2020
Charles Worsley Obituary Mr. Charles Worsley, 86, of Tarboro, North Carolina died Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at Edgecombe Health & Rehabilitation Center of Tarboro, North Carolina. Grave side services will take place for the immediate family only at 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, May 16, 2020 at Eastlawn Memorial Gardens, Tarboro, North Carolina. He is survived by two sisters, Ann Roundtree...
Delorise Powell
May 10, 2020
Delorise Powell Obituary Mrs. Delorise Powell, 53, of Tarboro, North Carolina died Sunday, May 10, 2020 at Vidant Inpatient Hospice of Greenville, North Carolina. Life Celebration Services will take place for the immediate family only at 1:00 PM on Friday, May 15, 2020 at Batts Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Tarboro. North Carolina. She is survived by her husband, James Clifton...
Don Christopher Pollard
Apr 27, 2020
Don Pollard Obituary Don Pollard, 69, of Tarboro, N.C. died Monday, April 27, 2020 at his home. A graveside service will be held on Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 1:00 P.M. at East lawn Cemetery for the immediate family, with Elder Robert Williams officiating. He is survived by his wife Priscilla W. Pollard of the home, one son Don R....
Edna H. Sessoms
Apr 13, 2020
Edna Sessoms Obituary Mrs. Edna H. Sessoms, 98, died Sunday, April 12, 2020. A graveside service will be held at Dancy Cemetery for the immediate family and will take place on Thursday April 16, 2020 at 11:00 AM with Rev. Wayne Hines officiating. She was married to the late Rev. Arthur Sessoms and a member of Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church....
Demetrius Dickens
Apr 3, 2020
Demetrius Dickens Obituary Mr. Demetrius Dickens, 43, of Rocky Mount died Friday April 3, 2020. Life Celebration Services will take place on Sunday at 2:00 PM for the immediate family only . A walk-through visitation will take place two hours prior to the service at Dickens Funeral Service Chapel on Sunday. Demetrius attended Edgecombe County Public School and graduated with...
Mary Smith Dickens
Mar 25, 2020
Mary (Lena) Dickens Obituary Ms. Mary (Lena) Smith Dickens of Tarboro, North Carolina, passed on Wednesday March 25, 2020. Life Celebration Services will take place for the immediate family only at Weeping Mary Missionary Baptist church with Rev. Glascoe Mercer officiating. She is survived by two daughters, Ethel Williams of the home, and Elizabeth Jones (Melvin) Winterville, North Carolina. One...
Gleenreus 'Glen' Leual Hart Sr.
Mar 13, 2020
Gleenreus 'Glen' Hart Sr. Obituary Gleenreus "Glen" Leual Hart, Sr. was born on February 11, 1946 in Edgecombe County, North Carolina to the late Mable Hart Joyner and Paul Baker. He passed away March 13, 2020 at Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro, North Carolina. Funeral Service will be held on Thursday, March 26, 2020 at 1:00 PM at Blackwell Funeral...
Jamal Sherrod
Mar 10, 2020
Jamal Sherrod Obituary Mr. Jamal Sherrod, 27, of Speed, North Carolina died on March 10, 2020. Life Celebration Services will take place for the immediate family only. He is survived by his parents Paul and Adell Gary of Speed, North Carolina and Annie McDowell and James Sherrod, Tarboro, North Carolina. Two brothers, Derrick McDowell, Joel McDowell, of Speed, North Carolina....
Ta'Nautica Mcdowell
Mar 10, 2020
Ta'Nautica McDowell Obituary Ta'Nautica McDowell 17, of Speed, North Carolina, died Tuesday March 10, 2020. Life Celebration Services will take place for the immediate family only. She is survived by her mother Katrina McDowell and father Christopher Lyons, four sisters Taraji Otwan Parker, Taziya Unique Hyman , Speed, North Carolina, Krishonna Lyons, Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Krishcarday Lyons, Detroit Michigan....
London Mcdowell
Mar 10, 2020
London McDowell Obituary London McDowell, 1, of Speed, North Carolina died Tuesday March 10, 2020. Life Celebration Services will take place for the immediate family only. She is survived by her grandmother Katrina McDowell , Speed, North Carolina, great grandparents, Ernestine McDowell, Hobgood, North Carolina, Pamela and James Pettaway , Speed, North Carolina and Gregory Lyons, Tarboro, North Carolina. Two...
Nannie Rodgers
Feb 22, 2020
Nannie Rodgers Obituary Ms. Nannie L. Rodgers 86, of Tarboro, North Carolina died on Saturday, February 22, 2020 at Rocky Mount Rehabilitation Center, Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Services will be held on Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 1:00 PM at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church with Rev. Wayne Hines, Sr. officiating. Burial will follow in the Eastlawn Memorial Gardens, Tarboro, North...
Judy Bellamy Gray
Feb 17, 2020
Judy Gray Obituary Mrs. Judy Elizabeth Bellamy Gray 56, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina died February 17, 2020 at her home. Funeral Services will be held at 1:00 P.M. on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at Dickens Funeral Service Chapel, 3690 highway 111 North, Tarboro, N.C. with Rev. Roy Gray officiating. These services have been entrusted to Dickens Funeral Service Inc....
Rilynn Ky' Year Roberson
Feb 13, 2020
Rilynn Roberson Obituary Infant Rilynn Ky' Year Roberson passed away on Thursday, February 13, 2020 at Edgecombe Vidant Hospital, Tarboro, North Carolina. Graveside service will be held on Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 2:00 P. M. at Wilson Community Cemetery, Princeville, North Carolina with Rev. Roy Gray officiating.
Earlene Jones
Feb 13, 2020
Earlene Jones Obituary Ms. Earlene Delois Jones, 63, of Tarboro, North Carolina died Thursday, February 13, 2020 at home. Services will be held on Wednesday February 19, 2020 at 11:00 AM at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church with Rev. Wayne Hines, Sr., officiating. Burial will follow in the Eastlawn Memorial Gardens, Tarboro, North Carolina. She was a member of His Majesty's...
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