ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) – Claudia Whitworth, the civic leader and longtime publisher of the Roanoke Tribune, has died.
Members of her family confirm she passed away Thursday at the age of 98.
Whitworth spent most of her 98 years in the newspaper business, and more than 50 at the helm of the paper started by her father, Baptist Minister Fleming Alexander, in 1939…