Joan C Lebeter

Joan C Lebeter from Beecher, IL, crafted herself a stairway to heaven on January 25, 2025, due to her frequent health issues. Joan was born February 8th, 1949, to parents Joseph and Catherine McTiernan in Boston, Massachusetts After graduating in 1966 from St. Mary's Prep high school in Brookline, MA, she went on to study business in Boston. Several years after leaving business school, she met her husband, Seaman 3rd class Richard Lebeter, at a Military social function. Richard and Joan married on November 16, 1969. They raised three children —Christine, Kevin, and Brian, residing on the Southside of Chicago then spending many years in Riverdale, IL. During their years in Riverdale, Joan volunteered to help in multiple youth organizations including Pop Warner football, little league baseball, Boy Scouts, and many community events. Joan retired from the Village of Riverdale in 2012 after serving 28 years in the clerk’s office. After retirement, Joan and Rich traveled throughout Illinois and Indiana promoting her craft business, pursuing Joan's passion of making flowers from seashells, designing art in her books, and her many woodworking projects. Joan and Rich were also world travelers, seeing the US from coast to coast and visiting Europe on multiple cruises. Her loving family, as well as her love of crafting and travel, helped fulfill her final years of life. Joan is proceeded in death by her mother and father Joseph and Catherine McTiernan and brothers Kevin and Leo McTiernan. Joan is survived by her sister Judith McTiernan and brother Paul McTiernan, husband Richard, children Christine Batson (Jason Batson), Kevin Lebeter (Bridget O'Leary), and Brian Lebeter (Jamie Conley). Grandmother to Dean, Jack, Luke, Reilly, Craig, Kyle, Brandon, Mystery, Jacob, Liam and Journey, and Great Grandmother to Jordan, Luca, and Violet. We will always love you to the moon and back.