JEFFREY BOE obituary

Jeffrey Layfette Boe, 82, passed away peacefully at 8

a. m. May 12, 2010, after telling Betty Jane that it really made his day to see her.

Jeff was born and raised in the Harlem and Fort Belknap area, the 10th of 11 children born to Henry and Maude (Healy) Boe, on Sept. 15,

1927.

Jeff served in the military for two years stationed at Fort Benning in Georgia. Jeff later worked for the Miller Brothers in the Bear's Paw Mountains south of Chinook.

On July 3, 1953, Jeff married Janet Rattey in Chinook.

To this marriage seven children were born at Fort Belknap. Jeff Jr., the oldest, died in a car accident in June 1975.

Surviving are Henry of Great Falls, Clinton, Cody, Sheldon and Larry of Havre and Meldonna of Minnesota. The marriage dissolved in 1964.

He later married Betty Wilson.

Jeff was the world's No. 1 cowboy as far as working with horses and cattle. He was an excellent horse shoer, roper, horse breaker and rider and considered himself one of the best horsemen in the country.

Jeff also served as a police officer in Harlem in the early 1970s and later worked for the Fort Belknap Tribal Police before going to Fort Hall, Idaho. He later returned to Montana, moving to Billings.

He lived there for the last 35 years of his life working for the Billings livestock yard, shoeing horses for various people, catching wild horses and cowboying like it was nobody's business.

He was preceded in death by nine of his 11 siblings, Milo, Nellie, Bill, Tommy, Margie "Dove," Rita, Anita, Vernal "Putt" and Monte. One brother of the family, Vernon, remains along with three step children Lyle, Twila and Frank Wilson of Oregon, and his second wife, Betty Jane Wilson of Billings.

Services are Saturday, May 22, at 2 p.m. at Havre Assembly of God at 901 9th St.

W. in Havre. Memorials can be made to the donor's choice.