SPRING HOPE - Ashton Lee Duke, 23, passed away Saturday, May 9, 2020. A graveside service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Evergreen Memorial Park, Wilson.

The family will receive friends Tuesday evening from 6 - 8 p.m. at Joyner's Funeral Home, Wilson, and other times at the home of his aunt, Elaine and husband, Dennis Raper.

He is survived by his mother Patricia Sawyer of Spring Hope; father, Ronnie Duke of Spring Hope; sister, Sierra Duke of Spring Hope; brothers, Travis Duke of Spring Hope and Tyler Hansen of Middlesex; maternal grandmother, Juanita Williams of Windsor, Maine; maternal grandfather, Robert Rackliff of Rockland, Maine and many aunts, uncles, and cousins and a niece and nephew.

He was preceded in death by his girlfriend, Mandy Hall and his paternal grandparents, Larry James and Betty Sue Duke.

Flowers are welcome or memorials may be directed to Sudan Shriners Hospital, 403 East Front Street, New Bern, North Carolina 28560. Condolences directed to Joyner's Funeral Home and Crematory at www.joyners.net.