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 1928 - 2012 (84 years) Submit Photo / Document
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| Name |
Cecilia Rose Bibby |
| Nickname |
Cece |
| Born |
1928 |
California  |
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Cecilia Rose Bibby Birth.
Cecilia Rose Bibby Birth. |
| Gender |
Female |
| Census |
1930 |
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1930 Bibby.
1930 US census, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, enumeration district 19-476, Family Number 103, Bibby. |
| Biographical Information |
1937 |
| At the age of nine along with her brother Frank, Cece was turned over to the Masonic Home For Children in Covina, California by their widowed mother Mary. After losing her husband Mary struggled with alcoholism. The children remained at the home until they reached legal age. They never saw their mother again. |
| Census |
1940 |
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1940 Bibby.
1940 US census, San Antonio, Los Angeles, California, enumeration district 19-627, Family Number 236, Bibby. |
| Census |
1950 |
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1950 Bibby.
1950 US census, Covina, Los Angeles, California, enumeration district 19-683, Line Number 1, Bibby. |
| Occupation |
Cece was an artist. She worked for Chrysler who at the time was a NASA contractor. She was the only woman in the art department at Cape Canaveral. Her time was taken up doing drawings for instruction manuals, art for presentations, and even illustrations for the Nasa employee's magazine.
Her real claim to fame was when John Glenn recruited her to paint the "Friendship 7" mission logo on his Mercury space capsule. She went on to paint the logos for Scott Carpenter's "Aurora 7" and Wally Schirra's "Sigma 7" capsules. To do her job, Bibby became the first and only woman to ascend the Mercury launch gantry and go inside the "white room" that surrounded the vehicle. This created quite a bit of friction with the pad boss who was quite the male chauvinist.
The painted panels still exist but, for the most part reentry erased her work. |
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Cece Bibby & Scott Carpenter Aurora 7.
Cece Bibby & Scott Carpenter with "Aurora 7". |
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Aurora 7 & Logo Before & After.
Aurora 7 & Logo Before & After. |
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Bear-Pumpkin
The space art came to an end when she relocated to California. Her art continued. She now focused on folk art, usually with animals and often with teddy bears. |
| Died |
14 Nov 2012 |
 Siblings |
2 siblings |
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| 2. Frank Bibby, b. 24 Sep 1930, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California |
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| Person ID |
I56322 |
Nagel |
| Last Modified |
15 Dec 2020 |
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 | Born - 1928 - California |
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| Photos |
 | Cece Bibby.
Cece Bibby is standing by a U-2 spy plane. The pilots hated it because it always seemed to be having mechanical problems so they got Cece to paint this lemon logo on it.
Every time the plane was sent back to the Lockheed corporation for repair they would fix the problem and paint over the artwork. Every time the plane was returned to the squadron the pilots would get her to repaint it. |
 | CeCe Bibby
Cece was an employee for Chrysler Corporation, which was a sub contractor for NASA. She was the only woman artist in the graphics department at Cape Canaveral. Her claim to fame came when Astronaut John Glenn recruited her to paint the Friendship 7 logo on his space capsule. She went on to paint the logos for Scott Carpenter's "Aurora 7" and Wally Schirra's "Sigma 7" capsules.
To do her job, Bibby became the first and only woman to ascend the Mercury launch gantry and go inside the "white room" that surrounded the vehicle. |
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