Ramon Arthur Roubideaux

Ramon Arthur Roubideaux, 82 years old, died on July 10, 2007, in Tucson Arizona. He was born November 15,1924 at Rosebud, South Dakota, in the
Indian Hospital on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation.

He is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and also has Omaha and French ancestry. He is a direct descendent of Chief War Eagle, who was prominent in the Sioux City, Iowa area in pioneer days. He went to school first in Lead, South Dakota when his father, Roy Roubideaux worked in the Homestake Mine. After his parents divorced in 1933, he went to the St. Francis Mission, a Catholic-Indian school in St. Francis, South Dakota and graduated from the eighth grade at the age of 12. He attended the first two years of high school at St. Francis and then transferred to Stephan Mission near Fort Thompson, South Dakota in 1939, where he was active in sports,
dramatics, music and painting. He graduated from high school in 1941 at the age of 16.

He then attended a commercial business course at Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas and graduated in 1942. He initially worked at Sunflower Ordinance works, a defense plant, at Eudora, Kansas. He enlisted in the Army in December of 1942, and he was called to active duty in the Air Force in April 1943. He shipped overseas in October
1944 as a Radar-observer-navigator with the 416th Nightfighter Squadron to Italy. He completed 24 missions in combat in northern Italy during World War II. He was Commissioned 1st Lieutenant, awarded the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and three battle stars. He returned to the United States in June of 1945 as only one of two
in his squadron to return alive from their tour of duty. In February, 1946, he was honorably discharged from the Air Force. He was a member of the American Legion Post and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

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