Joaquin 'Jack' Rivera, 64

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:24:03 +0000

Joaquin “Jack” Rivera arrived in Bozeman in March of 2003 with a tool belt, a beat-up Subaru, and a plan to stay six months. He was still here twenty-three years later, which he attributed to the fishing and which everyone else attributed to the deck he built on Peach Street that started it all.

He bought the little yellow house on West Babcock in 2006 for what he called “a normal amount of money” and what the assessor now calls “significant appreciation.” He brought it up at every potluck, usually while grilling carne asada on the very deck that started the conversation. The house backed to a ditch that ran clear in June; he taught three generations of neighborhood kids to catch crawdads there.

Carpentry on The Bozeman Daily Bee

Joaquin 'Jack' Rivera, 64