July 25, 2026, 87, Mount Olive – Peggy Wells Whitted, 87, of Harkers Island, passed away peacefully at home, Saturday morning, July 25, 2026.
She grew up in the Rones Chapel Community and later resided in the Mount Olive and Calypso areas before retiring at Harkers Island. She worked many years in the Wayne County School district and later owner and operator of the Mount Olive Florist with her husband. Although she had a love for nature including flowers, butterflies and birds, her greatest love was for her Savior, Jesus and her husband, children and grandchildren. In her later years, she loved to “minister” to others through phones calls and sending them books from some of her favorite ministers. Her Harkers Island home was always full of pictures of all her family and a yard full of flowers. She was a member of Smyrna Pentecostal Holiness Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband and lifelong sweetheart of 63 years, Neville Ormond Whitted, Sr., her parents, Johnny Mac and Sadie Dixon Wells; sisters, Winnifred Wells, Shirley Wells Ellis and husband, Fred Ellis, Beverette Wells Davis and husband, Williams Davis; sister-in-law, Evelyn W. Wells; and brothers, J.W. Wells, McCray “Crow” Wells, Everette “Shorty” Wells, and Cecil Wells.
She is survived by her son, Ormond Whitted, Jr and wife, Lori of Mount Olive and daughter, Ann W. Lewis and husband, Mike of the home at Harkers Island; , grandson, Graham Whitted and wife, Amber and their children, Avery, Taylor, Rowen, Luke and Devon of Mar Mac, grandson, Cody Whitted of Scotts Store, granddaughter, Annsley Brazelton and husband, Nick of Williston. She is also survived by her sisters, Linda Kay Wells of Rones Chapel and Betty Wells Reaves and husband, Jimmy of Little River, SC, brother-in-law, Leslie Ray Whitted of Mount Olive and several special nieces and nephews.
Services will be held by the graveside at Wells-Southerland Cemetery in the Rones Chapel community, Mount Olive, at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, August 2. Officiating will be Pastor Jeffrey Dail of Mount Olive Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Arrangements are by Noe’s Funeral Service in Beaufort and Tyndall Funeral Home in Mount Olive.
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