Maidie Louise Gibbs is listed in NamUs as a missing person under case MP13707. Online case listings identify her as an 89-year-old White/Caucasian female who was last seen in Rochester, Vermont, on August 28, 2011. Her listed physical description is limited: hair and eye color are unknown, her height is estimated between 5 feet and 5 feet 6 inches, and her weight between 100 and 150 pounds.
The case is associated with the Vermont State Police and the Vermont Intelligence Center, and the provided case data does not indicate a resolution status of Alive or Deceased; based on the available information reviewed, this remains listed as an unresolved missing-person case.
The circumstances of Maidie Gibbs’s disappearance are tied to the catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Irene, which struck Vermont as a tropical storm in late August 2011. Rochester was among the communities deeply affected, with roads, bridges, homes, and public spaces damaged by flooding. Contemporary reporting described Vermont’s Irene flooding as severe and historic, with state officials warning that roads and infrastructure had been eroded and destabilized.
Maidie was reported missing from Woodlawn Cemetery in Rochester during the flood. The cemetery was devastated when Nason Brook swelled into a destructive torrent, clawing away soil and washing out graves. Reports from the years after the storm described caskets, vaults, and human remains being carried from the cemetery area by floodwaters, leaving families and local officials with the painful task of recovering, identifying, and respectfully reinterring the dead.
The scale of the cemetery loss was significant. News accounts reported that approximately 50 graves at Woodlawn Cemetery were washed away, with only about half of the remains recovered by the time families gathered for a reburial ceremony in 2013. Other reporting stated that more than two dozen sets of remains remained missing, some believed to have been washed downstream into the White River. In later coverage, cemetery officials said active searches had stopped, while the community continued repairing the cemetery and honoring those whose remains had not been recovered.
Maidie Gibbs’s case appears to be one of several NamUs missing-person records connected to the Woodlawn Cemetery disaster rather than a conventional missing-person disappearance involving a living person last seen leaving a home or public place. SpotCrime’s NamUs-derived listing shows multiple people last seen in Rochester on August 28, 2011, including several Gibbs family members, reflecting how many graves and remains were affected by the same flood event. Maidie’s entry specifically lists her as missing at age 89, with case number MP13707.
At the heart of Maidie Gibbs’s case is a profound loss shared by families and the Rochester community: the storm not only damaged the town, but also disturbed the resting places of loved ones. Available online sources do not provide a confirmed recovery for Maidie or an exact date of resolution, and the attached case data leaves the resolution field blank. In the absence of a confirmed Alive or Deceased resolution, her case should be treated with care as an unresolved record connected to the Woodlawn Cemetery flooding, with compassion for the relatives and community members still affected by what Hurricane Irene took from them.Last Seen: Aug 28, 2011
