Eva Elaine Lee, 76, passed away Saturday, March 21, 2020 at Kitty Askins Hospice Center in Goldsboro.   A private graveside service will be held Friday, March 27, 2020 at Patetown Cemetery.  The family will greet friends following the service.   She was born in Wayne County on June 9, 1943 to the late Earl and Alma Johnson Lee.   She is survived by her sister, Carol Maxine Person and husband, Jack of Pikeville and a host of nieces, nephews and other relatives...

Fremont-Ramona “Boots” Jane Lamm Pitts, at age 83, of 291 Old Black Creek Road, peacefully went to be with her Lord and Savior Monday, March 16th, 2020 in her home surrounded by her family.   A private visitation will be held Thursday, March 19th, 2020 at Shackleford-Howell Funeral Home.  Graveside service will follow at Elmwood Cemetery in Fremont with Pastor Barry Stallings and Derek Limbaugh officiating.   Ms. Pitts was born in Wilson County, NC to the late...

Arnold Clay Bizzell, 56, passed away Saturday, March 14, 2020 at home. A private service will be held at a later date. He was born in Wilson County on October 15, 1963. He is survived by his mother, Doris Edmundson Gurganus of Lucama; one brother, Terry Bizzell and wife, Julie of Mt. Olive and a nephew, Jackson Bizzell. He was preceded in death by his father, Arnold G. Bizzell.   Arrangements by Shackleford-Howell Funeral Home in Fremont.

Jewel was a truly beautiful woman with a genuine, kind spirit. She loved well and she will forever live on with Christ and in the hearts of all she cherished. She lived through tremendous, incredible things that people half her age might wince at. At the end of her life, she fought illnesses that debilitated her but they were never her, just a part of her story. In spite of all she had been through, in her moments of peace, she'd say "Gods been good to me". Life was never...

Madison Mergl of Sayville, New York passed away suddenly on Friday, March 13, 2020 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Mt. Olive.   Madison was a freshman exercise science major and a member of the Women's Lacrosse team at the University of Mount Olive.   Services will be private.  A Memorial Service will be held at a later date. Beloved daughter of David and Joan. Loving sister of Kayla, Lucas and Devin. Adored granddaughter of...

Billy Ray Howell, 81, of Goldsboro went to be with his Lord and Savior Thursday evening, March 12, 2020 at Kitty Askins Hospice Center.   Homegoing service will be held Sunday, March 15, 2020 at 3 p.m. in the chapel of Howell Funeral Home & Crematory in Goldsboro.  The family will receive friends following the service and other times at the residence.  A graveside service will be held Monday, March 16, 2020 at 11 a.m. at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in...

Ronald Allan Reese, also known as “Bootsie, Sarge, Pa Pa, and “Reese”, was born on September 6, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York to the late Robert Jackson Reese Sr. and Cora Byrd Reese. He was the youngest of five. Three siblings proceeded him in death: Robert Jr, Emmet and Annie.   Ronald quietly and peacefully transitioned from a physical life of labor to reward on Thursday, March 5, 2020 at home surrounded by his loving family.   Ronald was educated in Brooklyn,...

Naomi Mapp Kiser, 54, of Goldsboro passed away suddenly on Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh. A celebration of her life will be held Thursday, March 12, 2020 at 4 p.m. in the chapel of Howell Funeral Home & Crematory in Goldsboro.  The family will receive friends following the service. Mrs. Kiser was born in Japan on December 01, 1965 to the late John Mapp and Setsuko Ogawa Mapp. She is survived by her husband, Carl Kiser;  three...

(Retired) MSgt Dennis Ray Deans (Air Force), 67, of Goldsboro passed away Monday, March 2, 2020 at Wayne UNC Health Care in Goldsboro.   The family will receive friends Friday, March 06, 2020 from 10:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. at Howell Funeral Home & Crematory.  A graveside service will follow at Eastern Carolina State Veterans Cemetery in Goldsboro with full military honors.   Mr. Deans was born in Wilson County, NC on July 9, 1952 to the late Donald and Ellen Louise...

Betty Lee Holt, 80, of Goldsboro passed away Sunday, March 1, 2020 at Kitty Askins Hospice Center in Goldsboro.   A graveside service will be held Wednesday, March 4, 2020 at 3 p.m. at Wayne Memorial Park in Dudley.  The family will receive friends following the service.   Mrs. Holt was born in Johnston County on October 22, 1939 to the late James “Jim” and Flossie Belle Hayes Peacock.  She attended Tabernacle Pentecostal Holiness Church while...