Leibrock, LeRoy 1882-1954
LEIBROCK, STEVENS, BAILEY, MORE, MORSE
Posted By: Ken Johnson (email)
Date: 1/17/2016 at 09:52:22
[from the Thurs., 1 April 1954 issue of the “Clayton County Register” (Elkader, IA), page 5, columns 5 and 6]
LEROY LOUIS LEIBROCK
LeRoy Louis Leibrock was born October 18, 1882 in Elkader, Iowa. He was the son of Louise and Frank Leibrock. He graduated from the Elkader high school at the age of sixteen, then attended and graduated from the Iowa State college school of engineering in 1909.
In 1915 he married Ann Stevens who died in 1919. In 1920 he was united in marriage to Susie Elizabeth Bailey More. As the step-father of James Kent More he was wise, kind, sympathetic to a boy who had lost his father in early infancy.
Mr. Leibrock held engineering positions in Arizona before returning to Iowa where he held mining and highway engineering jobs, he being a resident engineer for the Iowa Highway commission for several years and also district engineer for P. W. A.
Poor health forced his retirement from that strenuous life, and in 1939 he purchased the Plaza Theatre at Olin which he operated until his death.
During his active years he gave much time to Boy Scout work, having organized a troop in a Presbyterian church in Des Moines, and for eight years was its Scoutmaster. In the Congregational church in Elkader, he organized a troop of Scouts. Also, in Olin he assisted in organizing a local troop of Scouts.
In 1920 he joined the Masonic fraternity in Des Moines. Later on he was master of the Masonic lodge in Elkader. He was district lecturer for many years. He was an active member of Ancient Landmark Chapter in Olin.
He was a member of the Olin Methodist church.
Surviving him are one sister, Mrs. Grace Leibrock Morse of Elkader, a brother Fred of Milwaukee, Wis., his wife and son, James Kent More of Chicago, and other relatives and many friends.
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Note: The obituary in the Clayton County Register does not give his death date or place, or burial date or place.
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