At 12:48 PM 10/29/2010, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax wrote:
His nephew, Phillip Lebid, was a Secret Service agent and
sacrificed himself at age 30 to save a bus load of kids. Phillip
was very behind what we are doing and we miss him greatly.
In this case, this was literally true.
http://www.policespecial.com/inthelineofduty/2004/04-143-Lebid.htm
However, about to put this down entirely, I realized something. The
article doesn't mention relatives. So I started to look for a sign of
them. I searched for "sergio phillip colleen lebid", Colleen,
Phillip's mother, being mentioned in a story about the guy driving
the car that Phillip ran into.
First I found an obit:
Lebid, Valentina
VALENTINA LEBID, 82, beloved wife of Ivan (deceased); loving mother
of Lilia (deceased), Nadia Barthol (Herbert, deceased), Nicolas
(Colleen) and Sergio (Lucya); dear grandmother
<http://obits.cleveland.com/Cleveland/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=95847096>(more)
This could be the family, I assume, without paying for the detailed
obit, that a Phillip is mentioned as a grandchild, and that Serge may
be named after an uncle, Sergio.
http://obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary-preview.aspx?n=valentina-lebid&pid=95847096&referrer=258
It costs $2.95 to read the obit. Tempting....
Looking further, I found this:
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/27/271611/tampa-man-sentenced-15-after-probation-violations/
From the article:
"I agreed with the probation before. I figured he needed a chance,"
said the Secret Service special agent's mother, Colleen Lebid. "He
really has insulted us terribly. Not by the first time but by the
second time. His attitude is cavalier."
David Lebid, Phillip Lebid's brother, said he still misses his
brother greatly.
"He loved me, and I wanted to be in his life for a long time," David
Lebid said. "I can no longer do that."
Not conclusive. There could be another brother. If I had some money
to spend, I'd buy the right to read the whole obit. Since it lists
deceased relatives, it would certainly list Serge. Except the name is
actually Sergio. David Lebid is 28 years old. I forget how old Sergio
is, but he could indeed be the brother of Colleen, not her son (or
did I read that obit correctly -- what do the parentheses mean).
Sergio Lebid (principal in NanoSpire) attended Cleveland State
University, starting in 1972, after high school in Brooklyn. So the
latest he'd have been born, unless quite unusual, would be roughly
1954, making him 53 in 2007. While it's remotely possible that
Valentina, who died at 82 in 2007, was his grandmother, it seems more
likely that she was his mother. To be the grandmother, the average
age at birth of the mothers involved would be 14.5. Very, very thin.
Or I've misread something....
Someone who needs to know might look at that obit.... But if it turns
out that there was a small error in what Mark wrote, so what? He'll
just say, "Oops! I got that not quite right." If it turns out that
Sergio Lebid of NanoSpire is not a close relative of Phillip Lebid,
it would look pretty bad.
