Paul Jim Sidebottom, 79, of Summersville, KY passed away on Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at Baptist Health Hardin Hospital in Elizabethtown, KY. He was born on May 18, 1945 in the house built by his 3rd great-grandparents on the family farm, the son of the late Loy and Maudie Jones Sidebottom.

Jim was a graduate of Green County High School and attendee of Campbellsville College. Having said, farm boys needed to find trainable city girls because farm girls already knew how hard farming could be, he found one of his own in 1967. On November 29, 1968, Ona Raye Buckner became his bride and forever life companion. Their first year together was spent in Europe courtesy of the US Army, after which they returned home to start their own family with the birth of son Paul Stacy in 1970, followed by daughters Anna Maude in 1976 and Laura Raye in 1985. After years running a floor covering business, Jim decided to return to the family blood of farming in late 1981, purchasing a small Green County dairy and steadily growing it into a successful, family-run enterprise.

Jim served as President of the KY Dairy Development Council; member of Governor Steve Beshear’s Agriculture Development Board; and a board member of various other committees. In 2011, Kentucky Farm Bureau bestowed him the honor of KY Farmer of the Year. In his scant spare time, Jim enjoyed working on farm vehicles and classic cars, specializing in 1965-67 Ford Mustangs and 1929-31 Ford Model A’s.

In addition to his parents, he was also preceded in death by his siblings: Duval and Philip Hay, Harold and Wheat Sidebottom, David Sidebottom, Betsy & Dale Shuffett; and a granddaughter, Grace Sidebottom.