Luke Gordon Nash

Luke Gordon Nash, 56, of Mantorville, MN passed away on Sunday, February 7, 2021 at Mayo Clinic Saint Mary's Campus in Rochester, MN.

Luke was born May 5, 1964 in Red Wing to Luke M. Nash and Muriel (Haas, Nash) Weber.  He was baptized and confirmed at St. John’s Evangelist Lutheran Church in Red Wing, MN. He graduated from Red Wing High School in 1982, being active as a lifeguard and in football, wrestling, and chess club. In addition, he was on the Olympic powerlifting team. Luke joined the United States Army in 1982, as a MP in the Old Guard stationed in Washington, DC.

After his career in the military, Luke started his law enforcement career in Goodhue County, thereafter, joining the Dodge County Sheriff’s Department, starting as dispatcher, and ending his career as a sergeant. During this time, he married his wife Lynnette (Kenworthy) Nash, and they had two children, Alexa and Luke B. Nash. He retired from the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office in 2012, but continued to be active in the community as a member of the Mantorville City Council, having once served as Mayor, and in his church as a deacon, as well as a moderator at the First Congregational Church in Dodge Center. Luke also continued to work at the family business, the Chocolate Shoppe, as head cook. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, gardening in the church food shelf garden, and riding motorcycle with his son. As a final act of generosity, he donated his organs to others with Life Source, continuing to give to others and help anyone who needed it, whether it was his family, his friends, or even those he never got to know.

Luke is survived by his wife Lynnette; children, Alexa and Luke B.; mother, Muriel Weber; siblings, Jody Nash and Scott Nash; mother-in-law, Lynne Kenworthy; father-in-law, Forest (Kay) Kenworthy; brothers-in-law, Scott (Amy) Kenworthy, Matthew Kenworthy, and David (Wendy) Kenworthy; along with numerous nieces, nephews, and extended family.

Luke Nash is preceded in death by his maternal and paternal grandparents; father, Luke M. Nash; stepfather, Bill Weber, and brother-in-law, John Kenworthy.

Visitation will be from 4:00-7:00 p.m. Monday, February 15, 2021 at Czaplewski Family Funeral Homes, 801 7th St SE in Kasson. A private family service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at First Congregational Church in Dodge Center, MN, with Pastor Keith Mosier officiating. Inurnment will be in Concord Cemetery with military honors.

You are invited to join a live stream of the memorial service on the Czaplewski Facebook page starting at 12:50 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/Czaplewski-Family-Funeral-Homes-Crematory-336420016774213/ .

To share a special memory or condolence, please visit www.czaplewskifuneralhomes.com, 801 7th Street SE Kasson, MN 55944 (507)634-6510. Blessed be his memory.