Nona Evelyn Camp passed away at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center in Colfax, WA, September 28th, 2016. She was born August 13, 1916 to Grace and Oral Duncan in Baker City, Oregon.

Nona Duncan left Baker City after the third grade when she and her parents moved to Spokane, Washington. She attended grade school and high school in Spokane where she graduated from North Central High School in 1934. She went to work for Brown Johnson Electric Company where she helped spray thousands of light globes and shades the "peachy glow" that eventually covered the light fixtures in the Davenport Hotel. She went to many dances in the hotel and enjoyed describing those long ago events to her kids and grandchildren. She later became a telephone operator.

Nona soon met Donald Camp, and they were quite a pair on Don's shiny motorcycle. On Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1937, Nona and Don were married in Saint Paul's Methodist Church and then moved to LaCrosse, Washington. She recalled that when she moved to LaCrosse there were thirty-two businesses in town, three grain dealers, three grocery stores, and two car dealerships. She often told stories about LaCrosse in those days. She recalled summer Saturday nights as big events with the streets crowded and parking spaces filled. Neighbors gathered to visit and sometimes take part in the street dances while children attended movies. People came in from the surrounding farms and many were from out of town looking for harvest work. Harvest time at the Camp Farm was sometimes a month long. Nona came from the city, but started out as a bride feeding many farm hands. In those days cooking involved creating three full meals daily, sometimes taken to the field wrapped in newspaper and blankets in the back of a pickup. She cooked for harvest on the farm until she was eighty-three years old. Then she taught the grand kids to make orange rolls and it was someone else's turn!

She and Don remained friends with so many people who had worked on their farm and received Christmas cards and pictures from many of them for years. Nona told about the fun they had playing tricks on one another throughout the summer. Nona and Don lived on the wheat farm near Pampa and were married for sixty-four years. Nona continued to live in her home until 2015.

Nona was a member of the LaCrosse Methodist Church, a lifetime member of the Washington State Grange, a member of the Washington Association of Wheat Growers, The Historical Society, WSU Cougar Club, and the LaCrosse Farm Women's Club. She loved sports, especially basketball, and up until the end of her life could tell you details about the games she had watched. She loved to travel and cook and spend time with her many friends.

Nona recently celebrated her 100th birthday and she loved every moment of the party. She relished the cards and greetings, and knew every person there.
Nona is survived by her sons, Merrill and Morris, daughter-in-law, Gloria, and grandchildren, Melinda Beazer and Cathryn Camp, Loren Camp, Jillian Camp Sparkes (Mike), and Andy Camp (Betsy), great grandchildren Sierra and Cheyenne Jochec, Braiden and Camden Sparkes, Olivia Hjort, and Miles, Piper, Mattie, Josie, and Carson Camp.

Nona's parents, her husband, Donald Camp, and her grandson, Daniel Camp, preceded her in death.

Her family and friends will dearly miss her wonderful upbeat attitude and infectious laugh. She is our inspiration.

A service to celebrate Nona's life will be held at 1:00 p.m. at the LaCrosse Methodist Church on Saturday, October 8th. A dinner in the church dining room will follow the service. A graveside service will be held at the LaCrosse Cemetery at 11:30 a.m.

The family requests that any memorial contributions be made to the LaCrosse Methodist Church or the LaCrosse Scholarship Foundation: P.O. Box 258, LaCrosse, WA 99143, or charity of choice.