{"id":114798,"date":"2025-11-20T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/11\/20\/pastor-johnette-grefe-20251119-0415-193079\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:02:08","modified_gmt":"2028-10-05T05:02:08","slug":"pastor-johnette-grefe-20251119-0415-193079","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/11\/20\/pastor-johnette-grefe-20251119-0415-193079\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Johnette Grefe"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Johnette Whittaker Grefe died Nov. 7, 2024, in Billings Clinic Hospital.<br \/>\n\t  She was the eldest daughter of George and Hazel Wolter Whittaker and was born Aug. 18, 1938. She graduated as salutatorian  from Plentywood High School in 1956 and then attended nursing school for a time in Minot, N.D.<br \/>\n\t  She met and married farmer John William Grefe in Plentywood Lutheran Church on March 15, 1958. They lived on the Grefe farm west of Reserve, raising three children, chickens, cattle and crops. She was an accomplished  seamstress, sewing most of the family\u2019s clothing,  including special outfits for Easter and Christmas and even a suit for John. She would pack her trusty Bernina  to Plentywood\u2019s hospital and nursing home every few months to do their mending.<br \/>\n\t  Involved with Faith Lutheran  Church of Wanso, she played piano and organ. She also provided piano lessons  to her three children, neighbor children and some adults as well. She taught Sunday school, helped clean the church, readied food for <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114791,"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\/114798"}],"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=114798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114946,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114798\/revisions\/114946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114798"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=114798"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=114798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}