Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, April 2, 1995 TAG: 9503310109
SECTION: HORIZON PAGE: G-1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: MARY BISHOP
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
He served in World War II and didn't get home for years.
When he got off the train near the Hotel Roanoke in 1951, he walked to his father and stepmother's home on Rutherford Avenue Northeast. He couldn't find them anywhere.
Meadows found some old neighbors, though. "I just went around looking and they told me they moved up to Southwest and I found them," says Meadows, now retired and living in the apartments over the Harrison Museum of African American Culture in Northwest Roanoke.
He said his parents had heard the city was planning to tear down their block and moved out before they were forced to.
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