Field house at Marshall White Center dedicated to fallen Ogden police officer Lyday
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- Andrew Lyday speaks at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Nathan J. Lyday Field House at Ogden’s Marshall N. White Community Center on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025.
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- Ogden Police Chief Jake Suber and Ashley Lyday cut the ribbon on the Nathan J. Lyday Field House during a ceremony at Ogden’s Marshall N. White Community Center on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025.
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- Attendees salute the flag during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Nathan J. Lyday Field House at Ogden’s Marshall N. White Community Center on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025.
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- A crowd gathers prior to a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Nathan J. Lyday Field House at Ogden’s Marshall N. White Community Center on Friday, Aug. 15, 2025.
OGDEN — City leaders, law enforcement officials and community members gathered at the new Marshall N. White Community Center on Thursday evening to dedicate the facility’s Nathan J. Lyday Field House.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the indoor field house — named in honor of Officer Nate Lyday of the Ogden Police Department, who was killed in the line of duty in May 2020 — was held prior to the department’s annual Night Out Against Crime event.
Several members of the Lyday family were in attendance for the dedication, including Lyday’s father, Andrew, who thanked the greater Ogden community for supporting the construction of the revamped Marshall N. White Center, completed earlier this year.
“Thank you to the citizens of Ogden who have supported this project with a lot of money, a lot of time, a lot of inconvenience for the neighborhood,” Andrew Lyday said. “They were willing to put forth the effort, the money to make this happen and rebuild this center better and bigger than it was before.”
The suggestion to name the field house after Lyday came from Ron White, the son of Marshall White — the community center’s namesake — who was also killed in the line of duty while serving with the Ogden Police Department in October 1963. However, Ogden Police Chief Jake Sube asserted that the names affixed to the center and its field house aren’t meant to commemorate tragedy but to celebrate community.
“This is not a memorial. The Marshall N. White Center and the Nathan J. Lyday Field House are not somber tributes to tragedy. They are living legacies — spaces filled with movement, joy and community connection,” Sube said. “These halls will echo not with silence and mourning, but with laughter, sports, the cheering of children and the energy of families coming together.”
The dedication occurred on what would have been Lyday’s 30th birthday. As the ceremony culminated, the Lyday family was surprised with the presentation of a birthday cake, after which attendees sang “Happy Birthday” in honor of the fallen officer.
Also speaking prior to the ribbon-cutting were Ogden Mayor Ben Nadolski, Ogden City Council member Marcia White and Lyday’s brother, Cody.
Said Nadolski: “I just want to say how proud I am to be associated with the department. It’s built by men and women of the caliber of Nathan Lyday. I didn’t know him personally — I don’t have to know him personally to see him, to feel him, to benefit from him, from who he was and what he gave to us. I see it lived in the men and women of this department every day.”
Lyday’s widow, Ashley, assisted Sube in cutting the ribbon. After the ceremony, students from Ogden High School, Ben Lomond High School and Ogden police officers participated in a soccer scrimmage in the field house.
