R.I.P.: Longtime ND Broadcaster Jim Bollman

Jim Bollman

Longtime Grand Forks area personality Jim Bollman died Wednesday at 79-years-of-age

Bollman's daughter Lana Beaton said he "passed peacefully, surrounded by love" just after 6 p.m.

The news of Bollman's passing Wednesday evening came less than a day after his family announced cancer treatments had stopped and that he had started hospice care.

Bollman retired in 2012 after working for 55 years in radio, the last 45 in Grand Forks. At the time, he was working a morning shift at KNOX 1310 AM.