James R. 'Jim' Clegg, 70

James R. "Jim" Clegg, 70, "passed on to the Lord" on May 9, 2006, at Kalispell Regional Medical Center in Kalispell.

He was the oldest of three boys born to Delbert and Alice Clegg of Portland. Jim was born in Medford, Ore., and he fished the ocean in California in his younger days.

He moved to Whitefish in 1972, opened the Snowbird Laundromat and Clegg Insurance Agency, and retired from the U.S. Postal Service as a rural route carrier.

Loving Montana, Jim always said, "We live where people come to vacation; it's the best."

He graduated from Portland State College in Oregon with a Bachelor of Science in history, playing football there as well.

He was a veteran of the Korean War.

Jim loved the outdoors, ocean and fly fishing, hunting and his hunting dog, Hobbes. He loved flowers and gardening and people. He would help anyone when he could.

Jim will be dearly missed.

He is survived locally by his wife, Nancy, of Bigfork. He is also survived by his son, Bob and wife, Laurie, and their son, Alex; son, Jeffrey; daughter, Carrie Achilles; brother, Terry Clegg; and his niece, Alana, and her husband, Ewan Campbell, all from Washington.

He was preceded in death by his brother, David Clegg.

Cremation has taken place. Services will be held at 10 a.m. May 27 at Pope John Paul II Catholic Church in Bigfork with a reception following.