Roy L. Webber

{{notability|Biographies|date=February 2014}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Roy L. Webber | image = | caption = | office = 33rd & 40th [[List of mayors of Roanoke, Virginia|Mayor of Roanoke, Virginia]] | term_start = September 1, 1968 | term_end = October 18, 1975 | predecessor = Benton O. Dillard | successor = [[Noel C. Taylor]] | term_start1 = September 1, 1949 | term_end1 = August 31, 1954 | predecessor1 = Williams P. Hunter | successor1 = Robert W. Woody | birth_name = Roy L. Webber | birth_date = November 7, 1904 | birth_place = | death_date = October 1975 | death_place = }} '''Roy L. Webber''' (November 7, 1904–October 1975)<ref>[http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?001+ful+HJ50ER Virginia House Joint Resolution No. 50, 21 January 2000]</ref><ref>[[Social Security Death Index]]</ref> served twice as the [[mayor]] of the [[United States|U.S.]] city of [[Roanoke, Virginia]]. He was mayor from 1949 to 1954 and from 1968 to 1975.

Webber was a [[florist]] and the business he established in Roanoke carried his name until its closure in 2008. [[U.S. Route 220 (Virginia)|U.S. Route 220]] from the end of [[Interstate 581 (Virginia)|Interstate 581]] at [[State Route 24 (Virginia)|State Route 24]] (Elm Avenue) through the road's interchange with [[State Route 419 (Virginia)|State Route 419]] was named the '''Roy L. Webber Expressway''' in his honor.

Webber appeared in a scene in the 1972 [[Elvis Presley]] documentary film ''[[Elvis On Tour]]'', greeting Presley on board his private jet upon arrival in Roanoke on April 11, 1972. At the meeting Webber also presented Presley with the key to Roanoke and a guitar shaped bouquet of flowers made especially for the occasion by his own company.

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