Saturday, January 9, 2021
Joseph “Joe” John Hartman, 90, passed away peacefully on Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, in Lewistown, Montana. His illness was quick and he died without long-term suffering. There will be no memorial services per his wishes.
Joe was the son of John Hartman and Olga Hartman, who moved to Central Montana in the early 1900s, along with other Czech homesteaders to build their own small family farms from scratch.
Joe was born “at home” on Christmas Day, 1930, in the original family home 23 miles northwest of Lewistown, on Plum Creek Road. Joe would spend his entire life in that home. Along the way, he would watch his parents take a small plot of land and turn it into a successful farm using little money, but a lot of hard work and many handyman skills.