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Leah M. Jonson
Norma Jean Godwin Jenkins
HERTFORD - Leah Mason Jonson, 78, of 109
Yeopim Circle, died Friday, February 9, 2018 in her
home.
Born March 25, 1939
in Lancaster, PA, she
was the daughter of the
late Dudley Mayo and
Marjorie Cook Mason.
A graduate of Manheim
Township High School,
she attended Pennsyl
vania State University,
and then pursued a ca
reer in medical adminis
tration in which she had
been employed with
Scripps Clinic and Re
search Foundation in La Jolla, CA, University of
California-San Diego Medical Center in San Diego,
CA, and Georgetown University Medical Center in
Washington, D.C. A member of Holy Trinity Epis
copal Church where she was active with the Epis
copal Church Women and sang in the choir, she
also enjoyed membership in the Daughters of the
American Revolution, the George Durant Chap
ter of the National Society of Colonial Dames XVII
Century, the Swing and a Prayer Trio, and was a
founding member of the Albemarle Chorale.
Surviving are her husband of 33 years, Carl
Egerton Jonson; children, Jon James, Jr. of Pen
sacola, FL, Janelle James of Nashville, TN, Karen
Fioramonti and husband William of Boone, Chris
tine Pierce and husband Roger of Richmond, VA,
and Craig Jonson and wife Nina of Raleigh; sisters,
Suzanne Butler of Aurora, CO and Fay Morton and
husband James of Lincoln, AL; and grandchildren,
Daniel Fioramonti of Greensboro, David Fiora
monti of Ellicott City, MD, Kiera Jonson of Raleigh,
and Michael Koehnen of Yakima, WA.
A memorial service will be held Friday, February
16, at 11:00 a.m. in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church
and will be conducted by The Rev. Robert W. Beau
champ. Inurnment will follow in the church ceme
tery. Friends may join the family in the parish hall
of the church immediately following the service on
Friday.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in her
memory may be made to the choir fund of Holy
Trinity Episcopal Church, 207 South Church St.,
Hertford, NC 27944 or to the Albemarle Chorale,
121 Windsor Lane, Edenton, NC 27932.
Miller & Van Essendelft, Funeral and Cremation
Providers, 1125 Harvey Point Road, Hertford, is as
sisting the family with arrangements, and online
condolences may be made by visiting www.miller-
fhc.com.
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WINFALL - Norma Jean Godwin Jenkins, 84, of
Ashburn, VA, returned to her Heavenly Father on
Thursday, February 8, 2018. Her passing was un
expected.
Jean was born in Perquimans County, NC and
was the daughter of the late Archie and Bessie
Cartwright Godwin, formerly of Winfall. In addi
tion to her parents, she was preceded in death by
her brothers, Archie Godwin, Jr. and James God
win.
A 1951 graduate of Perquimans County High
School, she went on to become a devoted educa
tor. First, she earned a B.A. in Education from East
Carolina, and then went on to receive two Masters
degrees; one in Elementary Guidance Counseling
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and one in Elementary Education from The
University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Jean
was a school teacher in Moore County, NC for thir
ty years, most of which she taught fourth grade in
Southern Pines.
Jean retired to the coast of North Carolina and
worked as a guide on Portsmouth Island on the
Outer Banks. She loved the beach and could often
be found boating, fishing, shell hunting or teaching
her grandchildren how to water ski. She loved to
travel and visited her daughter on her numerous
assignments around the world including Paraguay,
Brazil, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Thailand, Hong Kong,
England, Belgium, and Panama. Jean settled down
on her beloved old family farm near Hertford in
2008 where she especially loved the now magnif
icent magnolia trees she had planted on the farm
decades ago. After suffering a stroke in 2010, she
moved to Ashburn.
Left to cherish her memory are her daughter,
Becky Bruton and her husband Brad of Ashburn;
three grandchildren, Derek Bruton and wife Amy
of Ashburn, Sarah Peterson and husband Ryan of
Bucharest, Romania, and Eythan Bruton and wife
Liz of Herndon, VA; and two great-grandchildren;
James and Charlotte Peterson of Bucharest. Also
surviving are three nieces, Suzette Romer and hus
band Rob of Alpharetta, GA, Tammy Gibbs and
husband Dave of TV ly, GA, and Melanie Gibbs and
husband Eddie of Tifton, GA; two nephews , Kev
in Godwin and wife Christie of Enigma, GA; and
Bill Godwin; and a sister-in-law, Katherine Godwin,
both of Alapaha, GA.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, Feb
ruary 15, at 10:30 a.m. with visitation and view
ing from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. in The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ashburn.
Another service will be held on Saturday, Febru
ary 17, at 10:00 am in the Miller and Van Essendelft
Funeral Chapel, 1125 Harvey Point Road, Hertford.
Burial will follow in Cedarwood Cemetery. Friends
may join the family in the funeral home the half
hour prior to the service on Saturday.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may
be made either to the Perquimans County Res
toration Association, PO Box 103, Hertford, NC
27944, or to the ASPCA.
Online condolences may be made by visiting
www.millerfhc.com.
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for fictitious car tags as well
as resisting, delaying or ob
structing an officer
The big agenda items
Monday were utility bills
and the lack of minorities
on the Hertford Volunteer
Fire Department, which
Jackson has tried to join.
His previous bushes with
the law have ruled him in
eligible based on the fire
department’s bylaws.
The meeting started over
an argument between Jack-
son and Mayor Horace Reid
over something as seem
ingly as simple as the agen
da itself. Jackson wanted
to amend it, and Reid said
the agenda was already set.
Jackson appeared to want
more discussion on utilities
“I want to give people
what they want,” Jackson
said. Several people did talk
about utilities during the
public input section, and
several others talked about
Jackson and how since he’s
been elected town meetings
have grown ugly and com
bative.
Jackson countered that
people have disrespected
him at meetings, alluding
to a disagreement the week
before with former Council
man Lane. Jackson claims
Mayor Reid did not use his
gavel to try and stop it, but
Reid did use it to silence
him. At one point at the Feb.
5 meeting Jackson told Lane
to “sit down and shut up”
and also pointed that Lane
never graduated from high
school.
Jackson also asked for
the town attorney to be pres
ent at all town board meet
ings, something he said he’s
asked for in the past and it
never happened.
When the audience got
up, Danny Gregory said it
troubles him when town
board meetings have turned
into the “Jackson Dog and
Pony Show”
“You need to lead by ex
ample,” Gregory said to
Jackson.
William Eure, a local con
tractor, said Hertford is get
ting a bad reputation since
the last election.
“I would love to build
more homes left and right
here, but for the last few
weeks it’s been an em
barrassment. Enough is
enough.”
Tony Riddick, a business-
The Perquimans County Planning
Board will hold a public meeting on
Monday, February 26, 2018 at 7:00 PM
in the Commissioners' Meeting Room on
the 1st floor of the Perquimans County
Courthouse Annex Building located at
110 North Church Street, Hertford, NC, next door to the
Historic County Courthouse, to consider Conditional Use
Permit No. CUP-18-01, requested by Chowan Baptist
Association, to expand bunkhouse facilities at 377 Camp
Cale Road (Cale Camp and Conference Center). Property
is zoned RA, Rural Agriculture District and known as Tax
Parcel No. 4-0063-0003.
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Property owners, residents and other
interested parties may review this item during normal
business hours before the public meeting at the
Perquimans County Planning & Zoning Office, at 104
Dobbs Street, Hertford, NC, or call 252-426-2027 or
email rhondamoney@perquimanscountync.gov for
more information. You may make comments at the
meeting and/or provide written comments. If you
are unable to attend the meeting but wish to make
comments for the Board's consideration, please do so
in writing by 12 noon the day before the meeting.
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said. “She was asking people
to bring chili from home, an
unapproved food source.
Moving forward we decided
they could do it legally.”
Morgan said the health
rules that govern food ser
vice at private venues like
The Crawfish Shack are
designed “to protect the
public’s health and protect
the owners.” The rules don’t
apply to churches and civic
groups, he noted.
Hunter said the last thing
she wanted to do was create
a problem for The Crawfish
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for the machines.
“We’re at a standstill,”
Hunter said.
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Bill Jennings
Perquimans County
Tax Administrator
man said there has been dis
respect “on both sides.”
But Riddick, who is black
and coaches a rec league
team said when somebody
told him “Hertford is going
downhill,” he questioned if
he meant that was because
for the first time ever, Hert
ford has a majority black
town board. Sid Eley is the
only white member on the
board five members.
There was progress. May
or Pro Tern Archie Aples
said he’d offered to sit down
with Jackson and talk about
utility issues but Jackson
didn’t respond and when
Jackson brought it up at the
meeting, Aples was clear
that wasn’t right to throw
it out into the audience if it
wasn’t exactly true.
“I called the next day
and said let’s try and fix it,”
Aples said.
Fire Chief Drew Woodard
also said he was willing to sit
down and talk about the fire
department. Jackson said
he’s asked for records from
the fire department that ap
parently aren’t available.
Jackson claimed he’s be
ing made out to be the “bad
guy” because he’s trying to
make Hertford’s govern
ment more diverse. The
town is half white and half
black.
Eley spoke up in defense
of the fire department. In ad
dition to being a long-term
council member, he’s been
on the fire department for
48 years and his father be
fore him. He said even with
a volunteer squad, at a Class
5 insurance rating, some
body with a $100,000 home
pays about $500 a year in
fire insurance. Without the
fire department, the insur
ance would be $1,700.
He said as to racial di
versity, while Hertford may
have one black firefighter,
Elizabeth City has seven
even though it’s had a black
fire chief and their depart
ment is paid. Edenton has
two black firefighters.
Eley said he’s sad to see
the way the council works
now since the election.
“I have to apologize more
than I ever want to,Eley
said.
Councilman Frank Nor
man said Hertford can use
Edenton and Elizabeth City
as guides, but he wants to
see Hertford do better.
“We want to be better, to
the best Hertford can be.
We can and should address
diversity,” Norman said.
Shack.
“I said, ‘Look if there is a
problem with the path we’re
going on, I will cancel the
damn thing right now,’” she
said.
Morgan said the issue of
Hunter’s fundraiser came
up during a meeting of re
gional health officials. He
said after he mentioned that
The Crawfish Shack was
a nice place, one of his fel
low health officials pulled
the facility’s website up on
the internet. The discussion
about Hunter’s fundraiser
started after officials saw
the chili cook-off fundraiser
being advertised on the site,
he said.
She said she enjoys work
ing in the elections office.
“There is a lot to do and
it can be stressful, but I like
it,” Hunter said.
Hunter got more time
adjusting to life in the elec
tions office than her prede
cessor did.
Banks was hired August
2014 in preparation for the
retirement of Eula Mae
Reid. When Reid retired
the next month, Banks took
over the job as director.
In her resignation letter,
Banks recommended Hunt
er for the job
“I would like to fully rec
ommend that Holly Hunter
be my replacement. She has
been working with me for
over a year and in prepara
tion for my departure, I have
already begun her training.”
Banks also thanked the
county for the opportunity.
“I have gained valuable
knowledge, experience and
several great relationships
while I have been here,”
Banks wrote. “For that I
could not be more grateful.”
The first election this year
is the primary set for May 8.