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Almost a quarter-century ago on a breezy hilltop in northeast Roanoke two questions were posed: Whatâs in the box? Who wants to open it to find out? The questions were part of an archaeological examination that accompanied the moving of a historic graveyard in order to make way for a construction project. The 1997 exhuming and re-interment of the Oliver family cemetery from the shadow of Read Mountain to Mountain View Cemetery in Vinton was recapitulated here earlier. Not presented then were details of the event that arrived subsequently by telephone call. Now available is testimony from a participant who was the first to answer both of the questions presented at the start of the current discussion. ....
Janette Kingery Gibson was a fixture at the historic downtown Roanoke farmers market. She and twin sister Janice Beheler started helping their family sell produce at the market in 1945, when they were just 6 years old. Itâs where they learned to make change, using nickels. Gibson kept coming back to the market for decades. When their family members retired from the market, Beheler said, the twins joined a friend there, vendor Debbie Guthrie. Janette Kingery Gibson Courtesy of Gibson family Gibson was last at the market on Nov. 14. Later that day, family members said, she suffered a stroke. After weeks in the hospital, she died Feb. 3 at 81 years old. ....