{"id":112995,"date":"2025-10-16T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/10\/16\/crystal-bighorn-20251015-0340-326550\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:04:09","modified_gmt":"2028-04-03T05:04:09","slug":"crystal-bighorn-20251015-0340-326550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/10\/16\/crystal-bighorn-20251015-0340-326550\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Crystal BigHorn"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Crystal BigHorn, 77, of Brockton died Oct. 5, 2025, at St. Vincent\u2019s Hospital in Billings.<br \/>\n\t  She was born in Poplar on Feb. 5, 1948, to Florence Mae Weinberger \u201cBighorn\u201c and Ernest Clark Bighorn Sr. Shel was third born amongst siblings: Ernie, Jackie, Sybil, Alda and James Bighorn.<br \/>\n\t  Her Indian name was Bear Woman, \u201cMat\u00f3 W\u00ed\u014bya\u014b,\u201d given  to her by her grandfather Maurice Bighorn.<br \/>\n\t  She attended school in Brockton and also got her associate degree. She looked out for the less fortunate and had a genuine soul. She was determined to accomplish her goals. She was an outdoorswoman  and loved hunting,  fishing and music.<br \/>\n\t  She was an honest person and was \u201ctough as nails,\u201d but gentle at her core. She loved cooking, baking, sewing, quilting, gardening and canning,  all whilst always sending  a prayer. She enjoyed going  to her \u201cranch\u201c to do daily chores, feeding and graining horses, watering and feeding her ducks and chickens, cats and dogs.<br \/>\n\t  Her house was the spot for pretty much everything, from family gatherings to holidays to Cat Creek jam sessions. She had a special way of creating  a space that unified and <\/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\/112995"}],"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=112995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113148,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112995\/revisions\/113148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112995"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=112995"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=112995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}