Ruth Ellen Gibbs is listed in NamUs as a missing person, case MP13715, associated with Rochester, Vermont. She was 74 at last contact and described as a White/Caucasian female with red or auburn hair; eye color is unknown. NamUs gives her date of last contact as August 28, 2011, and lists the Vermont State Police – Vermont Intelligence Center as the investigating agency.

Her disappearance is tied to catastrophic flooding at Woodlawn Cemetery during Tropical Storm Irene. Nason Brook surged, washing out about 50 graves; some remains were recovered while others were carried downstream toward the White River and never found. Reporting from the period said more than two dozen sets of remains were still missing in the year after the storm, and the public NamUs entry for Gibbs does not show a resolved status of Alive or Deceased.

If anyone has information about Ruth Gibbs or the Woodlawn Cemetery recoveries, please share it with the Vermont State Police.