Robert "Bob" J. Nash was born on September 17, 1936 in St. Louis, Missouri to John and Mary (Harris) Nash. He grew up in St. Louis County and graduated from Normandy High School in 1954. In 1958 Bob received his degree as an air craft mechanic from Parks Air College in East St. Louis, Illinois. During that same year on December 20 at a Lutheran church in Ferguson, Missouri he married Elizabeth "Liz" Rollhaus.  

From 1961 to 1963 Bob served in the United States Army. In 1963 he began working as an air craft mechanic for Ozark Airlines which later became Trans World Airlines. Thirty-two years later he retired in January of 1995.

Bob was very mechanically inclined and with the right amount of time could figure out how to fix or solve anything. He was a perfectionist who kept all of his equipment no matter how old looking and running like new. He enjoyed music of all types and was a member of the Lionel Train Colleting Club of America.

           
He passed away on December 30, 2010 at the Ashland Care Center in Ashland, Nebraska at the age of 74. He is survived by his children, Bob and his wife Tammy Nash  and their daughter Madison, daughter Sandra Nash, and sister, Judy Byrd. Bob was preceded in death by his parents and his wife.