Rocky Mount, NC Mrs. Annese Pittman Farmer, 57, of Rocky Mount, North Carolina transitioned on April 9, 2021 at Vidant Edgecombe Hospital, Tarboro, NC. A Visitation will be held for Mrs. Farmer on Friday, April 16, 2021 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm at the Chapel of H.D. Pope Funeral Home. Graveside services will take place on Saturday, April 17, 2021 in the Gardens of Gethsemane beginning at 2:00 pm These professional services have been entrusted to H.D. Pope Funeral Home, 325 Nash Street, Rocky Mount, NC. Share your favorite memories, offer words of sympathy, light a candle, or leave a memento on the Tribute Wall. Due to COVID-19, H.D. Pope Funeral Home requires that all attendees to any service or visitation wear a face covering and practice social distance at all times. H.D. Pope Funeral Home staff has been trained to properly disinfect our chapels, lobbies, and restrooms after each service or visitation using state of the art Fog Sanitation.