{"id":108297,"date":"2025-07-31T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/07\/31\/sandra-birthmark-20250730-0327-266043\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:05:30","modified_gmt":"2028-01-17T05:05:30","slug":"sandra-birthmark-20250730-0327-266043","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/07\/31\/sandra-birthmark-20250730-0327-266043\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Sandra Birthmark"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Sandra Birthmark, \u201cMedicine  Helper Woman\u201d, 70, of Poplar died July 19, 2025.<br \/>\n\t  She was born to Eunice Alfrey  and Clarence Birthmark on Aug. 26, 1954, in Poplar. She was raised in Fort Kipp, and later moved to Brockton, then Poplar. She was a part of the Bad Temper Bear Clan.<br \/>\n\t  She loved attending church, pow-wows and family  gatherings. In her early  days, she sang with her mother and two sisters with their drum group. She loved to travel and meet new people  and have a good conversation.  She loved to visit on the phone and pray for relatives  and friends. She liked to make a joke here and there. She was always ready to listen  and give advice where she could and brought comfort  to those in need.<br \/>\n\t  She is survived by numerous  grandchildren and great-grandchildren.<br \/>\n\t  She was preceded in death by her step-father, Lavern Alfrey; siblings, Charon Owens, Diane Chase, Lynn Birthmark, Darryl Birthmark, James Birthmark, Joyce Birthmark,  Clarice Birthmark, Sheldon Birthmark, Nolan Birthmark and Kermit Birthmark; and grandson, Scott Harrington.<br \/>\n\t  Her funeral service was held Wednesday, July 23, at the Assembly of God Church in Poplar. Interment was at the Poplar City Cemetery under the direction of Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel of Wolf Point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108292,"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\/108297"}],"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=108297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108525,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108297\/revisions\/108525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108297"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=108297"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=108297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}