{"id":107582,"date":"2025-07-17T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/07\/17\/jeffrey-ricker-20250716-0338-531310\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-07-17T05:05:28","modified_gmt":"2028-01-03T05:05:28","slug":"jeffrey-ricker-20250716-0338-531310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/07\/17\/jeffrey-ricker-20250716-0338-531310\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Ricker"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Jeffrey Allen Ricker, Wiyaka  Hanska Najin, Tall Standing  Feather, 53, of Wolf Point, died June 29, 2025.<br \/>\n\t  He was born April 29, 1972, in Portland, Ore., to Ronald and Katherine (Riley) Ricker.  He was raised in Portland along with his six siblings, known as \u201cThe Ricker 7.\u201d During his childhood days spent in St. Johns, he could be found cruising the neighborhood  on his bicycle with his brothers, sneaking into Blazer  games with his best friend Ty, learning new wrestling moves from his big brother and practicing those moves on his younger siblings.<br \/>\n\t  He moved to Wolf Point in the summer of 1988, where he began work at Buttreys Foods. It was here where he met Cody Reum, whom he married in the summer of 1992. From this union, they welcomed Courtney, Tyler, Brandon, Spencer and Cassandra.  During this 23-year marriage, he formed a lifelong  family with the Reums, who notoriously nicknamed him \u201cFeffy\u201d and with whom he enjoyed working, joking, 4-wheeling and riding horses.<br \/>\n\t  He married Janette Whitehawk  in the winter of 2014 and remained married until her death in 2022. From this 8-year union, he gained another  daughter, Sheray.<br \/>\n\t  His passion for fixing things began at a young age and continued throughout his life. He became a talented and skilled mechanic, dedicating  most of his time to getting his hands dirty working  at a multitude of automotive  shops or helping friends and family repair vehicles in his free time. Over the past decade, he developed another  family with the men he laughed and worked with at Northern Prairie Auto Sales.<br \/>\n\t  Thinking about him, it\u2019s hard not to hear the heavy metal and rock music that was his world. If he wasn\u2019t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107826,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107582\/revisions\/107826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107582"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=107582"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=107582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}