Lawrence "Larry" Leon Tibben, age 73, went home to be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on March 2, 2018.

Larry was born on July 3, 1944, at Seaside Memorial Hospital in Long Beach, California, to Dorothy Geraldine Tibben (Scriven) and Raymond Wallace Tibben.  He grew up in a house that his dad had moved from Los Angeles to Redondo Beach in 1949.  He and his older brothers helped pull nails and refurbish the home they lived in.  Larry grew up with two older brothers, Frederick and Richard, and two younger siblings, Thomas and Jane.  They were a close-knit family, and his mother Dorothy was the glue that made it so.

Growing up Larry had many interests and was often found at Lion's Drag Strip with his brothers racing his old 1959 Ford A Gasser.  It was a passion he and his brothers shared along with the love of baseball which they all played from Little League through high school and beyond.  Besides baseball, Larry was a champion wrestler and excelled at the rings in gymnastics.  He dreamed of working on cars and even built a green Henry J car with orange wheels which he took many a time to the beach where he indulged in another love, surfing.

After Larry left high school, he spent time working as a Butcher.  For most of his life, though, he worked as a Master Carpenter, and he was a Master.  God gave him the gift of creation for the houses, churches, and hospitals which he built with caring hands, perfectionism, and excellence.  For Larry, there would have been no other way to do it, and he instilled his strong work ethics and maybe a touch of his OCD in his children.  He loved camping with his family and best friends, Ted and Pete, playing Yahtzee, the harmonica, dancing and listening to music at a very loud decibel!

Larry is survived by his children, daughter Holly Kay Steinbach (granddaughter Brieanna Taryn and great grandson Jameson Dean), daughter Tasha Lanetta Bukowski, and son-in-law Allan Bukowski (granddaughter Amara Elisabeth and grandson Beau Jacob), son Tyler Leon and fiancée Walnetta Jones (granddaughter Ty'Leiyah Leona), his brothers Fred, Dick and Tom, several cherished nieces and nephews and his ex-wives, Wilma Bradberry and Annette Beck.

Larry wished to be cremated and have his ashes spread at the beach in Palos Verdes where he had so many happy memories of his time spent there surfing and hanging out with his friends, back when life was simple.  He always said he was a striped-assed ape, and his son and daughters know he is in Heaven now creating a ruckus and bathing in the joy of being with his sister Jane and Mom and Dad who preceded him in death.