Sibby LeBeau Memorial Service
Channel: Lawrence Molczyk
Date: 2014-10-28

Sibby Edmund Johnson LeBeau, 91 of Grand Island died Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, at his home.
Memorial services Monday October 27, 2014 at Grace Baptist Church in Grand Island. The Rev. John Hayes officiated at th service. Internment took place at the Greenwood Cemetery in Newcastle, Wyo. As per his wishes,Sibby was cremated.
Mr. LeBeau was born Aug. 12, 1923, at Promise, S.D., to Johnson A. and Eudora Ann (Travestie) LeBeau.
He was preceded in death by his first wife, Mae; an infant daughter, Linda; and two sons, Terry and Larry LeBeau.
Survivors include by his wife, Marilyn LeBeau of Grand Island; one son, Randy LeBeau; one daughter, Sherrie Bone; six grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, 10 stepchildren, 31 step grandchildren, 41 step-great-grandchildren and one step-great-great-grandchild.
He attended the St. Joseph Indian School and then St. Mary’s Preparatory School where he graduated. Sibby entered the U.S. Navy in 1941 serving as a frogman with an underwater demolition team in both the European and Pacific Theaters of Operation. He received his honorable discharge in June of 1946.
Sibby did various jobs following his military service including ranch work in Cheyenne, S.D., working on shrimp boats in Georgia and then as a mechanic in Edgemont, S.D.
He was introduced to Mae Clauson by Mae’s brother, Marvin Williams, who was Sibby’s fishing buddy. Sibby and Mae were married on May 28, 1948.
Sibby worked and attended night school to pursue his degree as a mechanical engineer. He moved his family to Bremerton, Wash., in 1963, where he worked in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. Beginning in 1980, he ran the Indian Center in Bremerton until 1984. They moved to Newcastle, Wyo., in 1985. Following Mae’s death, he moved back to Bremerton, then later to Trail City, S.D.
Sibby met Marilyn (Gilligan Pascoe) Roy and they were married on Aug. 9, 2000, at Grand Island, where they made their home.