James "Jim" G. Satake

James "Jim" G. Satake passed away Wednesday afternoon, January 15, 2020. His 90th birthday would have been in February. Jim was born to Sichiro and Fudeo Satake on February 19, 1930, in Harlowton, Montana. He was the 9th of 10 children. A proud Harlo Engineer, Jim earned the right to play in the third Montana East-West Shrine Football game in 1949. He then began his career with the Milwaukee Railroad, a relationship that forged his identity, and initiated him into a fraternity of railroaders that defined him for the rest of his life.

While he was a young Milwaukee railroader in Harlowton, he f...