{"id":113739,"date":"2025-10-30T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/10\/30\/lori-lynn-bigleggins\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:05:42","modified_gmt":"2028-04-17T05:05:42","slug":"lori-lynn-bigleggins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/10\/30\/lori-lynn-bigleggins\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Lori Lynn Bigleggins"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Lori Lynn Bigleggins, , of Billings died Oct. 17, 2025.<br \/>\n\t  She was born Jan. 1, 1965. She lived in Norwalk, Calif., from the age of one through eight. She then moved to Frazer due to her grandma Laura (Bearcub) Bigleggins being sick. She attended Frazer School where she played basketball and was a cheerleader.<br \/>\n\t  At age 15, she had her oldest  daughter, Saya Lynette Bigleggins. Three years later, she met Roland Johnston Sr. and they had two children, Teela Rae Johnston and Roland  Johnston. Fifteen years later, she met Marion Ackerman  Sr., they then had three children, Marion Ackerman, Garriet Ackerman and Trevor Ackerman. She then moved to Great Falls for about four years. From there, she moved to Billings, where she lived for the rest of her life.<br \/>\n\t  She worked housekeeping but, due to illness, she no longer worked. Her hobbies were bingo and loving her children and grandchildren. She devoted her life to both her children and grandchildren.  She also raised Victor Jonston Garcia, her grandson.<br \/>\n\t  She is also survived by siblings,  Sarah Johnston, Vickie Bigleggins, Garriet Bigleggins  Sr. and Robert Bigleggins  Sr.; and 16 grandchildren.<br \/>\n\t  She was preceded in death by James Williams; son, Roland Johnston Jr.; granddaughter,  Alberta Johnston; and siblings, Tanya Bigleggins,  Juanita Jones, John Bigleggins  Sr., Lynnwood Bigleggins  and Shannon Bigleggins.<br \/>\n\t  Funeral services were held Friday, Oct. 24, at the Frazer Community Hall. Interment followed at the St. Joseph\u2019s Cemetery in Frazer. Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel of Wolf Point was entrusted with the arrangements. <\/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\/113739"}],"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=113739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113914,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113739\/revisions\/113914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113739"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=113739"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=113739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}