Obituaries

By Connie Leinbach Islander  Gisela Agnes Zastrow, 76, died Saturday, Aug. 1, in the Outer Banks Hospital in Nags Head.  Born in Ruhland, Germany, in 1939,...

Tammy Marker Finch of Raleigh, died on Friday, March 4. Born Dec. 26, 1958, in Lodi, Ohio, she was a daughter of Larry and Phyllis...

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...

Note: This is a French translation of an obituary published by the Ocracoke Observer. To read the English click here: Par Peter Vankevich Leonard Carpenter Meeker,...

By Connie Leinbach A beloved off-island artist, Douglas W. Hoover, 52, of Archdale, Guilford County, died Aug. 14 of natural causes in the Hospice Home...

Note this is a Spanish translation prepared by Alfredo Contreras of an obituary published by the Ocracoke Observer. To read the English, click here Por...

Rudy Leroy Austin, 83, a cherished native son of Ocracoke, North Carolina, peacefully passed away on April 17, 2025. He was the husband of Patricia...

By Philip Howard My brother, Lawton (Bud) Howard Jr., a recent resident of Ocracoke who had moved to Virginia after Hurricane Dorian, died unexpectedly Thursday...

Edward Eugene Johnson, 92, of Galax, VA & Ocracoke, NC, passed away on June 25, 2015 in Galax. Born on October 5, 1922 in Galax,...

Editor's note: The Observer posted an obituary for Ken Gordon in December (click here), but since then, the family discovered another side to their...