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Jock Nysoe, 65, passed away January 23, 2016, at Providence St. Mary’s Medical Center in Walla Walla.

Jock was born April 14, 1950 in Dayton to Glen and Janis (Donohue) Nysoe, and was the third of four children. Jock grew up in Dayton; attend Dayton Elementary School and graduated from Dayton High School in 1968. He then attended Western Washington University, and in 1971, attended The Evergreen State College in Olympia, before returning to Dayton to help out with the family’s farming operations, which at the time included wheat, peas, an apple orchard on the Tucannon, and a small cattl...