Sept. 17, 1926 – Feb. 13, 2012

James T. Pancake, 85, long time resident of Powell Butte, died Feb. 13, in Grants Pass.

He was a native of Eastern Montana, where his parents, George and Alvina Pancake, homesteaded near the town of Malta.

He was a paratrooper in WWII. After the war, he married Jeanne Kenny and they operated the family cattle ranch while raising their four children.

They moved to Central Oregon in 1965, where Jim worked as an Agricultural Representative for U.S. National Bank.

He was a talented musician, and his family treasures memories of him playing his saxophone and clarinet and singing ”Old Man River”.

In his retirement years, he and his wife, Glenda, enjoyed gardening and ”snowbirding” in Parker, Arizona.

He is survived by daughter, Jeni Foster of Grants Pass; sons, James and KC of Powell Butte and Mark of Missoula, Montana; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; his wife, Glenda, of Powell Butte; and brother, Richard of Bigfork, Montana.