Charlie Temple

Charlie Wilson Temple, 91, of 473 Crooked Run Road, Elizabeth City, NC died Thursday, September 29, 2011 at the Albemarle Hospital. Born in Pasquotank County, Newland section, he was son of the late James Henry and Mrs. Essie L. Forbes Temple and the husband of Nellie Forbes Dunwell Temple. He was retired Civil Service with the US Coast Guard ARSC and was an avid hunter. Mr. Temple was a veteran of World War II having served in the US Navy and a Pearl Harbor Survivor. He also survived the sinking of four ships and received the Philippine Liberation Accommodation Medal.

Besides his wife, he is survived by one daughter, Donna Milke and husband Ronald of Beatrice, NE; a son, Paul F. Dunwell III and wife Carolyn of Leland, NC; a sister, Barbara Jean Davis of Elizabeth City, NC; four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two sons, Charles Temple and Terrance “Dill” Temple.

Graveside services will be conducted on Monday, October 3, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. in West Lawn Cemetery with the Rev. Garry Mickey officiating. Military honors will be provided by William Clarence Jackson Post 6060 Veterans of Foreign Wars. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Sunday evening from 6:00 until 7:30 p.m. Twiford Funeral Home, Memorial Chapel, 405 East Church St., Elizabeth City, NC is serving the Temple family. Online condolences may be expressed to the family by visiting www.twifordfh.com.

Walter Boyd

Kill Devil Hills, NC
Walter Earl “Freight Train” Boyd, 57, of Kill Devil Hills, NC died Monday, September 26, 2011 at his brother’s home in Nags Head, NC, after fighting a long battle with heart disease. He is the son of Iris June Perry and the late Earl Boyd. He was also preceded in death by a brother, Wilton J. Boyd.
Walt was a truck driver his whole life. He loved the road, his family and friends. He loved to talk and tell stories. He will be greatly missed by all.
He is survived by one aunt, Lynn Jackson of Elizabeth City, NC, three sisters, Ann Morris and husband, Dave of Washington, NC, Valerie Gray Daniels and husband, Bobby of Wanchese, NC, and Susan Perry of Kill Devil Hills, NC; eight brothers, Travis Boyd and Linda of Washington, NC, Milton Boyd and wife, Diane of Nags Head, NC, Michael Merrell and wife, Pam of Grandy, NC, Ronnie Merrell and wife, Patti of Kill Devil Hills, NC, Glenn Perry of Ocala, FL, Brian Merrell of Kill Devil Hills, NC, Rupert Perry, Jr. and wife, Margherita of Ocala, FL, Doug Merrell of Kill Devil Hills, NC; nine nephews, eight nieces, two great-nephews and one great-niece.
A Memorial Service will be held at the Whole Ministry Center, 826 E.R. Daniels Rd., Wanchese, on Thursday, September 29, 2011 at 7:00 pm, with Rev. Travis Boyd and Rev. Jeff Gray officiating. In lieu of flowers the family request that donations be made to Twiford Funeral Home to help cover expenses. The family will receive friends at the home of Milton and Diane Boyd, Nags Head, following the service.
Twiford Funeral Homes’ Colony Chapel, Manteo, NC is assisting the family with arrangements.

Louis (Bud) Buttke

Louis Martin Buttke (Bud), 83, husband of Karen Ann Buttke, son of the late Louis Francis Buttke and the late Helen Gould Buttke, passed away on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at his residence in Frisco. Born in Edgewater, New Jersey, Bud served in the U.S. Maritime Service before moving to Bay Shore, New York where he owned an auto body repair shop for over 20 years. He also was a member of the Bay Shore Fire Department, serving as Captain of the Hook and Ladder Co. After moving to Frisco in 1972, Bud opened Hatteras Originals cabinet shop and became well known in the community for his skill and passion with woodworking. He later became affiliated with the Hatteras Island Marlin Club, where he served for many years on the Board of Directors.

Bud is preceded in death by his sisters, June Ballarine and Violet Ghostlaw, a brother, James Buttke, his former wife, Marjorie Connolly Buttke, and also his former wife, Dorothy Wicks Buttke.

In addition to his wife, Karen, Bud is survived by his sister Elizabeth Buttke of New York, his daughter Maureen Kuretich of New York and his sons, Dr. Thomas Buttke and wife Mary of Kitty Hawk, NC and Timothy Buttke of New York. Also surviving are his stepchildren, Linda Roth and Terry Kogot.

Left to cherish his memory are his grandchildren, Kristin Buttke, Kimberly Long, Tammy Tressler, Christopher Kuretich and great-grandchildren, Daniel Tressler and “CJ” Kuretich, along with his step grandchildren, Alison Raver and Gregory Roth, and a step great-grandson, Benjamin Raver.

The funeral will be held at 12:00 noon on Saturday, October 1, 2011 at Twiford Funeral Home on Kohler Road in Hatteras, NC. Visitation will be from 11:00 –12:00 prior to the service and Friday evening from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, also at Twiford Funeral Home in Hatteras. Following the service, Mr. Buttke will be cremated, in accordance with his wishes. In addition to flowers, donations can be made in honor of Mr. Louis M. Buttke to the NC Disaster Relief Association by visiting their website www.ncdisasterrelief.org.

Twiford Funeral Home, Island Chapel, Hatteras, NC is assisting the Buttke Family.

Pernie Vessey

Pernie Dulaney Vessey, 92, of 336 South Rhodes Avenue, Windsor, NC died Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at Windsor House, Windsor, NC. Born April 14, 1919 in Floyd, VA, she was the daughter of the late Ephriam and Aurora Reed Dulaney and the wife of the late Donald Franklin Vessey Sr. Mrs. Vessey was a graduate of Radford State Teachers College and had worked for the War Department in Washington DC during WWII. She met and married Donald F. Vessey Sr., a Navy Hospital Corpsman, in 1945. Together they raised two sons, Donald and Robert, in a military family moving from various duty stations throughout the country and overseas. Those stations included: Bethesda Naval Hospital, 16th Fleet (Ghost Fleet) Portsmouth, VA, Naval Air Station Chincoteague, VA, USMC Base Kaneohe, US Territory, Hawaii, United States Naval Training Center Bainbridge, MD, Naval Medical Research Unit 2 (NAMRU-2) Pacific, Taipei, Taiwan, USMC Camp Lejeune NC. While they were stationed in Taiwan for three years, Mrs. Vessey taught Practical English to Taiwanese students. Following her husband’s retirement from the Navy in 1967, they moved to Orlando FL. Mrs. Vessey was a deeply religious woman. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother and will be immeasurably missed by her family and friends.

Survivors include her sons, Robert Vessey and wife Margaret of Elizabeth City, NC, and Donald Vessey Jr. and wife Mary Ann of Staunton, VA; four grandchildren, Scott Vessey and wife Angel, Heather Matthews and husband John, Dulaney Zullig and husband David, and Julia Vessey; and two great grandchildren, Sydney Wilkerson and Elizabeth Vessey. In addition to her parents and her husband, Mrs. Vessey was preceded in death by her brothers, Lincoln G. Dulaney and Leslie L. Dulaney.

A funeral service will be held on Friday, September 30, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at Twiford’s Memorial Chapel with Rev. F. Joe Griffith officiating. Burial will be in West Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends immediately following the service in the lobby of the funeral home. Twiford Funeral Homes, Memorial Chapel, 405 East Church Street, Elizabeth City, NC is serving the Vessey family. Online condolences may be expressed to the family at www.twifordfh.com.

Joseph White

Joseph Judson White, 88, of 1213 Riverside Avenue, Elizabeth City, NC died Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at Guardian Care Nursing Home. Born in Pasquotank County, NC, he was the son of the late Julian Josiah and Leta Andrews White and was the husband of the late Lillian Graham White. Mr. White was a veteran of the United States Navy, having served during World War II. He later worked for VEPCO for forty years until retirement. Mr. White was a member of The First Baptist Church, the VFW, the Elks Club and the Jaycees.

Survivors include two daughters, Leta Anderson and husband Mike of Elizabeth City, NC and Mary Jo Worrell and husband Flint of Fayetteville, NC; a son, Judd White and wife Janie of Pinehurst, NC; eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. In addition to his parents and his wife, Mr. White was preceded in death by a sister and two brothers.

A graveside funeral service will be conducted Friday, September 30, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. at Old Hollywood Cemetery. The family will receive friends Thursday evening from 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Twiford Memorial Chapel. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations to the American Heart Association, C/O Brenda Dail, P.O. Box 220, Elizabeth City, NC 27909. Twiford Funeral Homes, Memorial Chapel, 405 East Church Street, Elizabeth City, NC is serving the White family. Condolences may be expressed to the family by visiting www.twifordfh.com.

Mark Wales

Mark Bennett Wales was born November 28, 1952 in New London, CT and died September 20, 2011 in Hatteras, NC after a mercifully short battle with pancreatic cancer. He grew up on the Princess Anne Country Club golf course, behind the Old Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach but settled in Frisco where he was well liked and fit right in with the Outer Banks people.

He was a muscular, weathered 6’5” carpenter that built and repaired many homes during his nearly 40 year career. He built them of a very high quality, with the integrity to withstand many Nor’easters and more than a few hurricanes. He built them on slab, block and more often pilings, some four stories tall. And he was a craftsman as well as a Framer that weatherized the exteriors & finished the interiors.
He inherited the love of reading, fishing & the Outer Banks from his grandfather, Louis Charles Ganzel, Jr, who taught him to fish as a young boy, and read to him nightly until he became an avid reader for himself at a very young age. Sadly, Louis passed suddenly when Mark was 11. Mark became a voracious reader and enjoyed everything from Mark Twain and Teddy Roosevelt to Dostoyevsky and the Dalai Lama. He also enjoyed Music and developed over many years an almost encyclopedic knowledge of rock and roll & the blues. Some of his favorite artists were Elvin Bishop, Robert Plant, Jimi Hendrix & B. B. King to name a few.

He was an expert salt water sport fisherman, on and off shore with many citations for Red Drum or Channel Bass, Speckled Trout, Dolphin, Blue Marlin, White Marlin and Sailfish, most of them released. His favorite fishing holes were the Point and the Gulf Stream on the Continent’s edge at Hatteras. He was honored to have been a mate on the Bullfrog for Capt Bob Eakes and on the Albatross fleet for Captains Ernie and Bill Foster. One mid-winter he helped bring Capt. Eakes 35’ boat to Hatteras from it’s birthplace in Maine. The Fosters started the blue water charter boat fishing industry on the Outer Banks. Mark was a crackerjack first mate for them for several years.

Everyone that knew Mark knew he had a big heart. He was deeply loved and survived by his wife Lori Wales and their son Beckett, who will cherish his memory; his mother Nancy G. Wales, who adored him, and father Lawrence B. Wales, Jr, his aunt “Teedie” Ganzel, who loved him dearly and his younger brothers and their families, The Hon. Peter G. Wales, Capt. Larry B. Wales, III and David H. Wales, that all naturally looked up to him.

Mark’s son is as tough as he was. He has been on full scholarship for the Syracuse University football team for two years and is a tight end. Mark’s admiration for Beckett knew no bounds.
A description of the character of the Outer Banks people from the book Hatteras Blues, by Tom Carlson fits Mark, pretty well too.

“They are hard working and loyal and patriotic and stunningly selfless when such is called for. But, at the same time, these same people are fiercely headstrong, independent, mistrustful of authority, wildly inmpatient with bureaucracy, and often sleeve- rolling angry with unethical bullshit. What’s right is right. Pay a man back what you owe him, in money or labor. Run another man’s nets if he’s sick and his family needs the money.

A short funeral service will be held at Galilee Episcopal Church sometime during the Syracuse University Football Team bye-week and a gathering of his friends will be on the south beach in Frisco later.
Twiford Funeral Homes’ Colony Chapel, Manteo, NC is assisting the family with arrangements.

Russell Nesseltree

Russell Clayton Nesseltree, 35, of Kill Devil Hills died September 25, 2011. Born in North Tonawanda, NY, he was the son of the late Danny Dee Yendes and is also preceded in death by his wife Tina Marie Taylor.
He is survived by his mother, Susan Louise Thiele of Kill Devil Hills, NC; one son, Justin Nesseltree of Richmond, VA; one sister, Margo Tucker of Cleveland, OH.
A memorial service will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to New Horizons, P.O. Box 1000, Manteo, NC 27954

Edward Evans

Edward Sylvester Evans, 92, of 1045 Highway 158, Elizabeth City, NC died Friday, September 23, 2011 at Albemarle Hospital. Born in Pasquotank County, NC, he was the son of the late Cary S. Evans and the late Hattie Ballance Evans. Mr. Evans was a Methodist, retired from the construction business, and a veteran of the U.S. Army.

He is survived by daughters, Faye Spolarich of Eveleth, MN and Cathy Vogel of Indianapolis, IN; a son, Alan Evans of Elizabeth City, NC; a sister, Marie Mitchell of Portsmouth, VA.; eleven grandchildren, and numerous great grandchildren. Besides his parents, Mr. Evans was preceded in death by an infant daughter and two sons, William E. Evans and Marvin N. Evans.

Funeral services will be held on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. in Twiford Memorial Chapel with Rev. Toni Wood officiating. Burial will be in West Lawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends in the lobby of the Funeral Home immediately following the service. Twiford Funeral Home, Memorial Chapel, 405 East Church Street, Elizabeth City, NC is serving the Evans family. Online condolences may be expressed to the family by visiting www.twifordfh.com.

Johnny Rayburn,Sr

Johnny Pete Rayburn Sr, 68, of Manns Harbor, died Friday September 23, 2011, in Norfolk, Va. Mr. Rayburn was born in Black Mountain, NC and was a heavy equipment operator and served is country honorably in the U.S. Army.

He was the son of the late Sam and Hazel Rayburn and the husband of Priscilla Beasley Rayburn of the home.
Besides his wife surviving are his son, Johnny P. Rayburn, Jr of Manns Harbor and his sister, Elizabeth Privett of Monks Corner, SC. Four grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

A celebration of life will be held at the graveside in Mount Carmel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Sunday September 25, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. by Rev. Edwin Basnight. Twiford Colony Chapel Manteo, NC is assisting the Rayburn Family.

Emory Stafford

Kill Devil Hills, NC

Emory Junius Stafford, 80, husband of Christine Stafford, resident of Truxton Street in Kill Devil Hills passed away at his residence Thursday Evening, September 22, 2011. Born in Erwin, NC, he was the son of the late Arnold Daane and the late Fannie Greene Allen Daane. Also preceding him in death are his grandparents, Hugh Luther Allen, Eleanor Greene Allen, brother, Hugh Allen Stafford, and his daughter, Virginia McGuire.

Mr. Stafford spent his childhood years in North Carolina and Cambridge, Maryland. He served in the U.S. Army with the Army Language School. His golf career brought him to Virginia, where he lived until moving to the Outer Banks in 2000. He was the former City Editor of the Daily Banner in Cambridge, Maryland and a Retired PGA Professional. He was the head Professional at Fredericksburg Country Club, Eastern Shore Yacht and Country Club, and retired from Elizabeth Manor Golf and Country Club.

He had a life long love of sports, music, and the outdoors. After retirement, he spent his time sailing, reading, gardening, coaching golf, playing golf, and enjoying his friends and family.

In addition to his wife, Christine, he is survived by his children, Jay Stafford and wife Suzanne of Lunenburg, VA, Cathy Hawkins and husband, David of King George, VA and Jenny Mark of Virginia Beach, VA. Also left to cherish his memory are his six grandchildren, Brian Plum, Katie Plum, Kirstin Overton, Kyle Stafford, Cayley McGuire, and Liam McGuire.

The family will honor his wishes to be cremated and a Celebration of Life will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the North Carolina Coastal Federation, P. O. Box 475, Manteo, NC 27954, The Elizabeth River Project, 475 Water Street, Suite 103A, Portsmouth, VA 23704 or Beach Food Pantry, P. O. Box 1224, Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948.

Twiford Funeral Homes’ Colony Chapel, Manteo, NC is assisting the family with arrangements.