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Maidie Louise Gibbs is listed as a missing person (NamUs MP13707), identified as an 89-year-old White/Caucasian female last seen in Rochester, Vermont, on August 28, 2011. Physical details are sparse: hair and eye color unknown, height estimated between 5 feet and 5 feet 6 inches, weight 100 to 150 pounds. The case is associated with the Vermont State Police and the Vermont Intelligence Center and remains unresolved in the database.

Her disappearance is tied to the catastrophic flooding from Tropical Storm Irene. Maidie was reported missing from Woodlawn Cemetery after Nason Brook swelled, washing away soil, graves, caskets, vaults, and in some cases human remains. News reports at the time and afterward described roughly 50 graves damaged at Woodlawn; about half the remains had been recovered by a 2013 reburial, while more than two dozen sets of remains were still unaccounted for and some were believed to have been carried into the White River.

This entry appears to be one of several NamUs records tied to the Woodlawn Cemetery losses rather than a conventional missing-person disappearance. Does anyone have information about Maidie Gibbs, Woodlawn Cemetery, or recovery efforts after the 2011 flood?