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Janette Gibson, who with her twin sold produce and fried pies on the Roanoke farmers market, dies

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. It’s 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.

Woman who survived Spanish flu and COVID-19 turns 102

ROAN MOUNTAIN — Carter County’s oldest COVID-19 survivor celebrated her 102nd birthday on Saturday. Helen Fetzer is a retired educator with the Carter County School System and a World War II veteran. Last year was one of the more difficult years in her long life. Not only did she get the novel coronavirus, she tested positive for over 100 days. Her son, Bob Fetzer, reported that his mother is currently negative and COVID free and is rehabbing at the Roan Highlands facility in Roan Mountain. Fetzer said “the sad part, the VA would not accept COVID patients at their community living center. Her options for care were very limited and the Roan Highlands was the only facility that would accept patients at the time. You would think a WWII veteran would have preferential treatment. We were very lucky to find the Roan Highlands rehab facility.”