When Libby Bebinger's friends left her at Methodist Hospital
early Sunday, she was perhaps the only one who did not realize
that her long struggle with the cruel affliction known as Lou
Gehrig's disease was coming to an end.  “When that horrible
storm blew in a few hours later, my first thought was, that's
Libby. We were joking that it was the chariots coming to get
her,” recalled Haley Beckel, 41, who met Bebinger in the sixth
grade at Alamo Heights.  “St. Peter better watch out. He's met
his match. She was the most dynamic person you'll ever meet,”
she added.  Bebinger, 41, died 19 years after being stricken
with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which often claims its
victims in a few years.  The wasting disease steals almost all
motor functions, while leaving the mind intact.  A cheerleader
and track star at Alamo Heights, Bebinger attended Southwest
Texas State University in San Marcos, where she was president of
her sorority.  She became ill in her senior year.  For the last
seven or eight years, she lived