Obituaries

Islander Bill Jones, 78, died on Jan. 28 in Vidant Hospital, Greenville, after suffering a fall on Ocracoke Island. His wife and sons were with...

Longtime music man on Ocracoke Willis Gupton, 67, of Louisburg died April 16. He was married to Dana Collette Gupton. Born Oct. 24, 1956, he was...

A memorial service for Soren Arn-Oelschlegel, 41, who was killed Oct. 8 by a fatal gunshot wound, will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday,...

John Ivey Wells, 76, of Ocracoke died at home May 24 after a long fight with cancer.

Al Scarborough has sailed on. Stories, no doubt, will continue to be told. Some of them will even be mostly true. Al died at home on Ocracoke on Saturday, May 2, 2026. Ocracoke was where he chose to be. Born on April 14,...

An undated photo of Kathy O'Neal. Doris Katherine Hoggard O’Neal, 66, of Ocracoke, died on June 15. She was the wife of David Farrow O’Neal Jr. Born,...

Karen Mary Lovejoy died at age 71 on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, in her home on Ocracoke, after one last family road trip brought...

Editor's note: This story corrected Mr. Fletcher's place of death, which was in Greenville and not at his home on Ocracoke. Ocracoke Islander John S....

Captain Reid William Robinson, 67, of Ocracoke, died at his home Saturday, Oct. 9. Born Sept. 16, 1954, in Baltimore, Maryland, he was a son...

Ocracoke native Ellen Marie (Fulcher) Cloud, 76, of Morehead City, died Saturday, Dec. 3, in Carteret Health Care. A celebration of life will be held...