- Date Of Birth: September 9, 1942
- Date Of Death: July 10, 2018
- State: Montana
James A. “Jim” Moe, 75, passed away July 10, 2018, in Fort Benton, Montana after a heroic battle with a chronic illness. He was born on September 9, 1942, in Bozeman to Audun and Carol Moe, raised on the family ranch near Two Dot, and attended schools in Two Dot and Harlowton. He studied at Northern Montana College in Havre and spent six years in the National Guard before returning home to a lifetime of ranching.
Jim married Rosita Diekhans of Shonkin on May 24, 1965, in Fort Benton. They lived on the family ranches at Two Dot and Martinsdale for the next 36 years until a stroke forced his retirement in 2001. Jim and Rosita spent their post-work years at the new ranch near Vaughn before moving to Fort Benton in 2014.
Jim was an avid sportsman who loved hunting and fishing. He took several hunting trips to Canada and regularly fished for Pike and Catfish on Fort Peck reservoir.
Jim was a lifelong Republican who was active in the Farm Bureau, Montana Stockgrowers, and Wool Growers Associations. Throughout the 1980s he was a Meagher County Republican committeeman. He loved to talk politics and enthusiastically studied current events and history.
Jim’s survivors include his wife, Rosita and his five children, James Audun (Woo) Moe of Seattle, Stevie (Ted) Jones of Martinsdale, Kari (Alex) Ceaicovschi of East Helena, Nels (Sadie) Moe of Vaughn and Dana (James) Gallaher of Fort Shaw. His sister Sonja Frampton of Glade Vallley, NC and his brother Richard Moe of Two Dot also survive as do numerous nieces and nephews. He has nine grandchildren: Cooper (TJ) Paulsen, Peyton Jones, Kendel Jones, Duel Jones, Evan Ceaicovschi, Simon Ceaicovschi, Christian Sprague, Brayden Moe, and Tannah Moe. He was excited to meet his first great-grandchild, from Cooper, expected on his birthday.
