{"id":116291,"date":"2025-12-11T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/12\/11\/wayne-webster-jr-20251211-0727-066199\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:01:49","modified_gmt":"2028-10-26T05:01:49","slug":"wayne-webster-jr-20251211-0727-066199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/12\/11\/wayne-webster-jr-20251211-0727-066199\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Webster Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Wayne Webster Jr., 78, died Nov. 28, 2025, at Billings Clinic  Hospital  He was born on June 29, 1947, in Williston, N.D., to Wayne Sr and Lillian Webster.  He grew up on the family  farm west of Froid.<br \/>\n\t  He attended Froid School and graduated from there in 1965. The following summer, he entered into the Navy. He was a Vietnam veteran, traveling around the world to placed such as Japan and Korea. He was honorably discharged in 1968.  He worked his whole life working various jobs such as with railroad out of Harlowtown,  lumberjack, P&amp; P roustabout,  lawyer, custom combining,  ranch hand for Milo and Karen Stangeland, Larry Davidson, Tony Anderson and A.J. Johnson, bartender at Hey John\u2019s and The Mint Bar. He and his buddy Rod ran the Mint Bar by themselves the winter of 2019.<br \/>\n\t  He attended Fort Peck Community College. He was a candidate for justice of the peace in 2018. He was a member  of the Medicine Lake Legion  Club and the Rod &amp;  Gun Club.<br \/>\n\t  His hobbies and interests included hunting, fishing, collecting coolers, visiting <\/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\/116291"}],"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=116291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116398,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116291\/revisions\/116398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116291"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=116291"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=116291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}