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Montie’s daughter, Cornelia "Ninia" Bivins, the former wife of Texas state Senator Miles Teel Bivins (1947-2009) of Amarillo, himself a rancher, carried the JA into a relatively brief fourth generation. On Montie’s retirement in 1993, Ninia formed a partnership with Jay O’Brien of Amarillo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ranches.org/JayOBrien.htm|title=Jay O'Brien|publisher=Ranches.org|accessdate=September 20, 2019}}</ref> The ranch consisted predominantly of black Angus and Charolais bulls. In 2005, a fifth generation took charge when Andrew Montgomery Bivins (born 1979), son of Teel and Ninia Bivins, joined the JA management team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ranches.org/ninia_Bivins.htm|title=Ninia Bivins|publisher=Ranches.org|date=no longer on-line.}}</ref>​

Montie’s daughter, Cornelia "Ninia" Bivins, the former wife of Texas state Senator Miles Teel Bivins (1947-2009) of Amarillo, himself a rancher, carried the JA into a relatively brief fourth generation. On Montie’s retirement in 1993, Ninia formed a partnership with Jay O’Brien of Amarillo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ranches.org/JayOBrien.htm|title=Jay O'Brien|publisher=Ranches.org|accessdate=September 20, 2019}}</ref> The ranch consisted predominantly of black Angus and Charolais bulls. In 2005, a fifth generation took charge when Andrew Montgomery Bivins (born 1979), son of Teel and Ninia Bivins, joined the JA management team.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ranches.org/ninia_Bivins.htm|title=Ninia Bivins|publisher=Ranches.org|date=no longer on-line.}}</ref>​

Montie Ritchie attributed the success of the ranch to its employees, whom he described as “men of imagination, men of skill, men of courage, men who braved the elements day or night, men who took pride in their crafts, loved their horses and understood their cattle, and were eager to enhance the reputation of the JA and proud to be a part."<ref name=JA/> Other than Montie Ritchie, the longest-serving JA employee as of 1940 was J. W. Kent, who retired that year after having worked a record fifty-seven years for the company.<ref name=hbook/> Ritchie was the manager for fifty-eight years until his retirement in 1993. However, in 1989, [[Tom Blasingame]], known as the "oldest working cowboy in the West," died after seventy-three years in the saddle, mostly at the JA.<ref name=PPHM/>​ Still another JA Ranch employee, [[Clarence Hailey Long]], was the inspiration for the "Marlboro Man" advertising blitz by the Philip Morris Company in the 1960s.

Montie Ritchie attributed the success of the ranch to its employees, whom he described as “men of imagination, men of skill, men of courage, men who braved the elements day or night, men who took pride in their crafts, loved their horses and understood their cattle, and were eager to enhance the reputation of the JA and proud to be a part."<ref name=JA/> Other than Montie Ritchie, the longest-serving JA employee as of 1940 was J. W. Kent, who retired that year after having worked a record fifty-seven years for the company.<ref name=hbook/> Ritchie was the manager for fifty-eight years until his retirement in 1993. However, in 1989, [[Tom Blasingame]], known as the "oldest working cowboy in the West," died after seventy-three years in the saddle, mostly at the JA.<ref name=PPHM/>​ Still another JA Ranch employee, [[Clarence Hailey Long]], was the inspiration for the "Marlboro Man" advertising blitz by Philip Morris International in the 1960s.

Montie Ritchie assembled an [[art]] collection which was donated to the Dixon Museum in [[Memphis]] [[Tennessee]].<ref name=JA/>​

Montie Ritchie assembled an [[art]] collection which was donated to the Dixon Museum in [[Memphis]] [[Tennessee]].<ref name=JA/>​