Emma Ella King Peterson,101, of Vanceboro was called to enter the Heavenly Gates on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.

Services arrangements are pending. Her entombment will be held Greenleaf Memorial Park.

She is survived by her daughters, Gloria Peterson of the home; Willie Mae Moore (Linwood), Dover, Doris Richards (Waldo), Havelock, Barbara Burke (Dion) Boston, MA, Emma Gatlin (Craig), New Bern; sons, Clinton Peterson, Vanceboro and Leo Peterson (Dora), Boston, MA; twenty-two grandchildren and a host of great-grandchildren.