Mr. James William Jenkins, age 83 died at the Roanoke Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie on Thursday, February 21, 2008. He was a native of Northampton County and worked as a carpenter until retirement. He made his home in Scotland Neck where he dappled in the used car business. He is preceded in death by his daughter, Alisa Hope Jenkins and his mother and father, Daisy Jones Jenkins and John Jenkins. Also preceding him in death is his sister, Pearl Burns.
Survivors include his wife, Jessie Mae Jenkins of Woodland, NC and his daughter Patricia Ann Rodriguez of Burlington, NC.