Waitt Brantley Best, 85, of 250 Slapout Road, peacefully passed away on Saturday, April 13, 2024, at Genesis Skilled Nursing and Rehab Center of Mount Olive, N.C.

Mr. Rodney Harris, 59, passed away on Saturday, April 13, 2024, at UNC Health Wayne, Goldsboro, N.C.

Jimmie Edward Best, 73, Mount Olive, died Sunday at home.

Wanda Kay Person Westbrook, 67, died Sunday at home.

Calvin Lee Rouse Jr., 73, Mount Olive, died Friday at ECU Health Duplin.

Judith Fay Shumate Herlihy, 61, died April 12 at Kitty Askins Hospice Center.

James Woodall, Kenly, died Tuesday.

Joy “The Duchess” Charmayne Howard, nee Joy Charmayne Tillman, passed away on April 9, 2024, in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the age of 66.

Kenneth Alan Gardner, 68, died Wednesday at Kitty Askins Hospice Center.

Sylvia Grady Pilkington, 73, died Tuesday at PruittHealth, Farmville.

Peggy Page Mooring Jones, 82, died Tuesday at Kitty Askins Hospice Center.

Robin Susan Sutton, 59, Mount Olive, died Tuesday.

Royce G. Davis, 89, it is with tender hands of compassion and genuine hearts of love that his family announce that he has joined his lovely wife Evangeline Bunn Davis in peace and rest in heaven.

Bettie Carol Davis Barber, 85, Princeton, died April 7 at Moses Cone Hospital, Greensboro.

Jonathan Eric Woods, 63, died Wednesday.

James Lee "J.L." Oliver, Seven Springs, died Monday at the N.C. Veterans Home, Kinston.

Joseph Crocker, Kenly, died Friday.

James Whitley “J.W.” Grant, 87, died April 8 at UNC Health Wayne.

Carrie Belle Worrell, 77, died Monday at UNC Health Wayne.

Araceli Hernandez Sanchez, 79, Seven Springs, died Monday at SECU Jim and Betsy Bryan Hospice Home, Pittsboro.

Norma Boyles Kornegay, 85, died Sunday at UNC Health Wayne.

Frances Woodard Lynch Deans, 93, died Sunday at Brookdale Country Day Road.

Faye Hall, Kenly, died Saturday.

Mrs. Josephine Powell Stephenson Johnson, Mount Olive resident, passed away Saturday, April 6, 2024, at Kitty Askins Hospice.

Margaret Martin Cekada, 80, Mount Olive, died Wednesday.

Faye Goff Sauls, 75, Fremont, died Saturday.

Ella Jones, Snow Hill, Wednesday

Tyrann Morrocco Artis, 48, died Monday at Kitty Askins Hospice Center.

Evelyn Jean Moler, 82, Pikeville, died Thursday.

Ann White Knowles, 86, of Wilmington, was ushered by angels into her eternal home on March 25.

It was about dawn on Easter Monday morning, April 1, 2024, that Gary Stephen “Steve” Herring peacefully passed away at his home in Calypso. Many loved ones were close at hand when he went to his eternal rest.

Lillian Phyllis Kannan Radford, 74, died Sunday at home.

Grover Clifford Owens Jr., 92, of Goldsboro, N.C., peacefully went to be with his Lord and Savior surrounded by family on Monday, April 1, 2024, at Kitty Askins Hospice Center.

Irene Robinson Alford, 82, died Sunday at Kitty Askins Hospice Center.

Mamie Louise Mitchell Connor Norris, 93, Snow Hill, died March 25 at home.

Huron L. “Ron” Grimes Jr., 70, Faison, died Sunday at Sampson Regional Medical Center.

George David “Dave” Bizzell, 80, died Saturday.

Pauline Flowers, 89, New York, died Sunday at Richmond University Medical Center.

Janet Hutchinson Clayton, 75, died Saturday at Brookdale Country Day Road.

Joseph Aumen, Smithfield, died Sunday.

George Sutton Atkinson III, 80, passed away on Thursday, March 28, 2024, at his home. He gained his independence from the cares of this world to find rest and peace. He was preceded in death by his parents, George Sutton Atkinson Jr. and Geraldine Dawkins Atkinson, and his sister, Nancy A. Brenner.