Homedale
High School
Class of 1965
Parents of Vicki Nation
Owyhee
Avalanche
January 10, 2007
Lawrence
L. ‘Toby’ Nation
Lawrence L. “Toby” Nation, 90, of Gering, Nebraska,
died Wednesday, January 3, 2007, at Heritage Estates in Gering.
A memorial service was held 2:30 P.M., Sunday, January 7, 2007, at Heritage
Estates Chapel in Gering with Pastor Jon Heatwole officiating.
Cremation was at Sunset Memorial Park Crematory in
Scottsbluff,
Nebraska. A memorial has been
established to Prairie Haven Hospice and Scottsbluff Church of Christ
Non-Instrumental.
Toby was born August 13, 1916, in
Warren, Oklahoma, to Henry and Vina (Bailey) Nation.
He grew up and attended school in Oklahoma and
moved to California
in 1936. He served in the United States Navy from October 2, 1942 to November 2,
1945. He married Byrna Lou Hutchinson in 1943. They had two children, a daughter
Vickie and a son Danny. They moved to a farm near Homedale, Idaho,
in the late 1950s, where they farmed for a number of years. They later divorced.
In 1979, he married Myrtle (Mitchell) Clements and moved to Gering where he
resided until his death.
Survivors include his wife, Myrtle Nation of Gering, daughter, Vickie White of
Worland, Wyoming; stepchildren Mary Kirstine of Garden Valley, Idaho and Elsie
Sprague of Richland, Missouri and Jim Walker of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and son Danny Nation.
Byrna Lou Hutchinson Nation
Byrna Nation was born in 1920 and was last known to reside in Worland,
Wyoming.