About Us

In 1971, while still working for NCR he co-founded Lubbock Lock and Key with his wife, Nancy. Larry has only had three jobs since high school, USAF, NCR and Lubbock Lock and Key. The electronics and mechanical training provided by the previous two employers was a great basis for learning the lock and safe business. He has completed dozens of classes, courses and CEU units in the 44 + years he has been the owner of Lubbock Lock and Key.

Larry spends most of his time now managing the business, but is still actively involved in the safe cracking and safe moving portion of the business.

His outside interests include motorcycling as a member of the Christian Motorcyclists Association as well as church activities and playing with grandchildren. He is soon to be a great-grandfather.

A fun fact is that Larry and Nancy rode their motorcycle on a 1,053 mile trip for their 40th anniversary (almost 10 years ago) traveling from Lubbock to Amarillo to Oklahoma City to Little Rock, AK to Memphis, TN to Jackson, MS – all in one day (about 18 hours) Why, you ask? He doesn’t know, it was Nancy’s idea.

She specializes in several areas such as access control, CCTV, masterkeying and customer service. She currently runs our dispatch computer and she says she can tell other employees where to go and what to do with the best of them. We really appreciate her empathy with our customer as well as her ability to rearrange the schedule to accommodate as many customers as possible. In the rare case when we ruffle feathers, Vicki is likely the one that can make things right again with the customer. She will be the one you talk to when you want to schedule a call.

Vicki worked on an oil rig for a while before entering the security business but says she left that job in order to keep all her fingers.

Her outside interests are varied and include animals, gardening, camping (but not roughing it), boating and going to the deer lease with her husband. Vicki’s fun fact is that she builds birdhouses (and puts them on long poles). She is taking classes this year to become a master gardener.

Toby is usually the first one you meet when you walk in our door. Other than his long experience in general locksmith work, Toby specializes in interchangeable core locks, masterkeying, automotive work and is especially adept at “wafer reading” which is a method of making a key simply by looking inside the lock without taking it apart.

Somewhere in the past 25 years or so, Toby also worked for Frito Lay for a year and a half. We don’t know where he came to love Dr. Thunder (Walmart brand Dr Pepper), but we bet it goes good with Frito Lay products. He not only loves Dr. Thunder, but says it goes well with a good James Bond movie.

He says he learned from his family to be reliable and work hard when he is at work and that is very true. The energizer bunny has nothing on him. When he’s at work, he is always finding something beneficial to do.

Toby’s interests outside work include church, walking (several miles a day) along with movies, games and spending time with his family.

Kevin works as a general locksmith and is specializing in access control and will be taking safe opening and repair courses in 2016. He currently does a great job on residential and commercial calls.

He is a veteran of the U.S. Army and has served in Iraq. He enjoys camping, hiking and fishing.

A fun fact is that Kevin actually enjoys jumping out of perfectly good planes while they are in the air.