Lasca Jackson Beck, 83, passed away May 16, 2019. Lasca earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Texas Women's University in Denton. She completed her Student Nurses Training at Parkland Hospital, receiving the classification as Registered Nurse in 1958. She returned to Mt. Pleasant and worked at Titus County Memorial Hospital from 1958 to 1968 as Head Nurse and then as Director of Nurses. Lasca began her career in Education as a professor in the School of Nursing at Texarkana Junior College from 1968 to 1984. She taught at ASU School of Nursing from 1984 to 2002, then Adams State College School of Nursing and Trinidad Junior College in Alamosa, Colorado from 2005 to 2007. She was a member of several professional organizations including the National Society of American Nurses to which she was a delegate in Washington D.C. Lasca was preceded in death by a brother and her husband, Buddy Beck. A graveside service was held o