Mrs. Nancy Jo Spratt Lebeck

A memorial visitation for Mrs. Nancy Jo Spratt Lebeck, 80, of Henderson, will be held from 6-8 PM on Friday, January 12, 2024, in the chapel at Crawford-A. Crim Funeral Home. A private, family memorial service will be held at a later time. Mrs. Lebeck passed from this life on December 29, 2023, in Longview, Texas. She was born on June 16, 1943, in Bloomington, Illinois to Floyd and Marion Spratt. She graduated from LeRoy High School in LeRoy, Illinois in 1961. While attending the University of Illinois as a vocal music major, she sang in a rock-n-roll band, The Sterlings. They released a record and were the entertainment on the train to and from the Rose Bowl in 1964. Nancy met Thomas Paul Lebeck while working at Admiral Corporation in Bloomington, and they married in 1965. In 1979, they were tired of the cold weather and moved their family to Henderson, Texas. Nancy was a member of the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority in Henderson. She sang in the choir and was in the bell choir at the First United Methodist Church for several years. She worked for Rusk County in several capacities as a clerk in the Rusk County Clerk’s office, Justice of the Peace Bob Richardson, and was also an election clerk for the county. She was preceded in death by her husband Thomas Paul Lebeck, parents Floyd Francis and Marion Kelley Spratt, sister Maxine Spratt Hillard and husband Richard, and father and mother-in-law Ray William and Wilmah Jeisey Lebeck. Survivors include her children, Christopher Paul Lebeck and wife Cindi of Henderson, Amy Lynn Lebeck Heim and husband Michael of Kilgore, Matthew James Lebeck of Henderson, and Chris Osback of Bourbonnais, Illinois; siblings, Linda Sue Spratt Wagers and husband Richard of LeRoy, Illinois, and David Spratt and wife Debbie of The Villages, Florida; grandchildren, Cullen Michael Heim and wife Morgan of Longview, Brandon Lee Heim of Gladewater, Holly Lynn Heim Alvis and husband Austin of Mt. Pleasant, Jason Paul Heim and wife Breanna of White Oak, Laci Brooke Lebeck of Henderson, and Kole Ray Lebeck of Henderson; great-grandchildren, Brooklyn Hudspeth Heim, Thomas Allen Heim, Evelyn Ray Heim, and Nellie Jo Heim; as well as several nieces and nephews. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be sent in honor of Nancy to the National Kidney Foundation at National Kidney Foundation, Finance Department, 30 East 33rd St., New York, NY 10016 or online at www.kidney.org/donate. Words of comfort may be shared with the family at www.crawfordacrim.com.

Mrs. Nancy Jo Spratt Lebeck

June 16, 1943 - December 29, 2023