Shannon Fielding Gibbs (born May 29, 1955 – died February 25, 1991) was the only child of Joann and Mac Fielding. She was also the first wife of Leroy Jethro Gibbs and the mother of Kelly Gibbs.
Biography
Pre-Series
Shannon was born in May 29[1], 1955[2] to Mac and Joann Fielding. Some point she and her family resided/lived in the small town of Stillwater, Pennsylvania.
During summer before her senior year of high school, she worked at Ellen’s Dress Shop. Despite being from the same town, Shannon only properly met Leroy Jethro Gibbs, although she saw him around while working in a dress shop and it was clear they found one another attractive, while waiting for a train in summer of 1974 on the way out of town. The two quickly started talking and became good friends, eventually dating.
In 1980, she and Gibbs briefly broke up because Gibbs feared losing her because of his Marine status. Taking advice from Ducky, Gibbs reconciled with Shannon and they got engaged. The pair married in late November/early December of 1981 and had a daughter they named Kelly in 1982. They were a happy family and loved each other dearly. It is also shown and said by Jackson Gibbs that Shannon was the main point of contact between Gibbs and his father as they men had a complicated relationship, and Jackson adored her and Kelly.
When Kelly was young toddler, her husband was transferred to new base (MCB Camp Pendleton), she witnessed argument between her mother and her husband about that, then Gibbs took her and Kelly in truck and he draw away them from Joann. They had been living in Alexandria, Virginia at the time.
Three years later, they moved back into their Virginia home, Gibbs transferred to MCB Quantico. They family lived there until Gibbs was transferred to MCB Camp Pendleton in late 1990/early 1991, they followed to live with him and they bought the house there and shortly after that he got deployed as part of Desert Storm.
On February 14, 1991, as her husband was fighting in Desert Storm in Kuwait, at the same time, in Oceanside she and Kelly witness a shooting of a Marine Sergeant Tanner and she identified the killer as Pedro Hernandez, a Mexican drug dealer working out of Camp Pendleton. Shannon and Kelly agreed to testify against him and they were scheduled to testify. On February 25, 1991 NIS agent Kurt Mitchell was assigned to protect her and Kelly, but Hernandez shot the agent in the head while he was driving. Special Agent Mitchell was killed instantly. Shannon and Kelly were both killed in the following car crash. Shannon passed away at thirty-five years old alongside her daughter who was 8 at the time.
=NCIS: Origins Season 1
She is shown in flashbacks and is mentioned in the series.
NCIS Season 3
She is shown in flashbacks and is mentioned in the series.
NCIS Season 5
She is shown in flashbacks and is mentioned in the series.
NCIS Season 6
She is shown in flashbacks and is mentioned in the series.
NCIS Season 7
She is shown in flashbacks and is mentioned in the series.
NCIS Season 9
She is shown in flashbacks and is mentioned in the series.
Personality
Shannon appears to be a warm and kind woman. Gibbs and her fall for each other immidiately and it is revealed she helped him straighten out his life when he was going through a rough time and making bad decisions and she also helps him mend his relationship with his father. This speaks to her loving and empathic character. She is shown in flashbacks to be happily horseback riding with her husband Leroy and daughter Kelly on the beach, doing other family activities with them. She is the inspiration for Gibbs' list of rules, having created a set of her own prior to meeting Jethro, which shows how she inspires him as a person.
Physical Appearance
Shannon was a woman of above average height, standing at 5'7". She had red hair and blue eyes.
References
- ↑ As seen on her MCB ID card in Hiatus. Part 2)
- ↑ As seen on her gravestone when her husband/widower visits her grave on her birthday in Date With Destiny