May 27, 2025, 83, Goldsboro —
Just moments after midnight which ushered in Tuesday, May 27, 2025, Faye Kornegay Coward, resident of Albertson, passed away at UNC Lenoir Hospital in Kinston. She was 83.
Faye was raised in the Pleasant Grove section of Duplin and was a member of the 1959 graduating class of B. F. Grady High School. She had enjoyed a long tenure of employment with the East Carolina Vocational Center where she was a departmental administrator.
After Faye relocated to the Vanceboro area, she became a member of West Vanceboro Church of God. Upon her return to the Albertson area, she attended Tanglewood Church of God in Kinston, and more recently, she worshipped at Mount Zion Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church at Pink Hill.
Faye is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Theressa Grady Joyner and Kevin Joyner, of Ahoskie, and Frances Anne Grady Wallace and Tommy Wallace of Jefferson; a daughter-in-law, Angela P. Grady of Beulaville; grandchildren, Ashley Brown and husband, Willie, Jeffery Rhodes and wife, Cynthia, Angela Bailey and fiance, Darrel Jones, Heather Fairless and husband, Adam, Emily Grady, Kara Parker, and Cody Howard; honorary grandson, Anthony Bailey and wife, Gayle Bailey; great-grandchildren, Noah Harmon, Isla Brown, Andrew Morton, Brianna Bailey, Faith Bailey, and Charlotte Fairless; a great-great-grandson, Levi Gomez; a sister-in-law, Rhoda Kornegay of Albertson; a brother-in-law, Hubert Radford of Kinston; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her son, David Allen Grady; her husband, James Ray “Dick” Coward; two grandchildren, Eliza Brown and Morgan Thompson; her parents, Allen and Nellie H. Kornegay; a sister, Anne K. Radord; and a brother, Randall “Rank” Kornegay.
A service for which to remember Faye’s life will be held Friday, May 30, at 2:30 p.m. at Greenleaf Memorial Park in New Bern at the outdoor service pavilion, after which she will be entombed in the cemetery’s Floral Garden mausoleum. Officiating at the service will be the Rev. Brent Manning. The family will greet friends and relatives at the cemetery after the service.
