Robert "Bob" Ritchey was born on April 1, 1949, and passed away on September 27, 2019, at the age of seventy years old. He enjoyed music, playing both acoustic and electric guitars. He loved the outdoors planting a garden every spring and fishing all year long and hunting in the fall. He never married but enjoyed my kids and grand kids, teaching them how to shoot bows and arrows and .22 rifles. He spent most of his life having people trying to "April fool" him every year. He spent two years at Moorhead State University, taking basic classes. Then he decided he would be and "honest" car salesman. He did well in that occupation in Pennsylvania, Montana, and Colorado, but it seemed that was not quite enough. So he moved to Shawmut, Montana, Buying property next to our parents. He went to work for the Lewis & Clark Forest Service in Harlowton as a wildland firefighter and EMT. As he worked in the forest service, he discovered this was his niche in life where God wanted him. With our dad being a preacher of God's word, we learned to put God first, family second, and job and everything else third. Bob learned to do all three in the forest service. He was working in  God's country, the firefighters became his family, and he loved being able to help by fighting fires. His family is proud of him.