Mead Kibbey died last month at age 96.  He was Sacramento’s colorful and philanthropic historian, and part of the “Greatest Generation.” Mead Kibbey served as a Navy Lieutenant in World War II.  

Beth Ruyak interviewed him in 2013 when he was honored as a Knight in the French Legion of Honor for his wartime service on a minesweeper boat. His crew prepared the English Channel before the D Day invasion.