Heritage scholarship was the overarching theme of this year’s Kegley Preservation Awards, presented by the Roanoke Valley Preservation Foundation in an evening ceremony at the Gainsboro Branch Library.
Saturday night, a mysterious bronze figure appeared outside the Roanoke Natural Foods Co-op on Grandin Road, seated on a curbside bench. It’s a life-size rendition of the late James Tarpley, self-appointed handyman/watchdog of the Grandin Village business district.
Pfc. Edward Hewitt Pete Benson was laid to rest Saturday in his family’s plot at Evergreen Burial Park, 77 years after he died during a Japanese airstrike on a U.S.
Pfc. Edward Hewitt Pete Benson was laid to rest Saturday in his family’s plot at Evergreen Burial Park, 77 years after he died during a Japanese airstrike on a U.S.
Pfc. Edward Hewitt Pete Benson was laid to rest Saturday in his family’s plot at Evergreen Burial Park, 77 years after he died during a Japanese airstrike on a U.S.
JONESBOROUGH - Gilbert Gray Rosenberger, Jr., 80, of Jonesborough, Tennessee, passed away on Sunday, January 24, 2021, at the Johnson City Medical Center. He was a native of Roanoke, Virginia, son of the late Gilbert Gray Rosenberger and Odelle Bean Rosenberger. He was also a 1958 graduate of Jefferson High School in Roanoke. Gilbert is an alumnus of Davidson College where he majored in Physics, and also attended graduate school at University of Virginia and at Lynchburg College. He served his country on active duty in the Army for two years and in the Army Reserve for twenty-six more years. He also worked at Nuclear Fuel Services as a health physicist until his retirement.