{"id":116966,"date":"2025-12-25T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T12:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/12\/25\/david-brownlee\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-12-25T05:03:24","modified_gmt":"2028-11-09T05:03:24","slug":"david-brownlee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/12\/25\/david-brownlee\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"David Brownlee"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> David E. Brownlee, 79, of Wolf Point passed away Dec. 10, 2025.<br \/>\n\t  He was born Feb. 9, 1946, the youngest child of Helen  Louise (Styre) and James \u201cJim\u201d Brownlee. Attending school in Wolf Point, he received  awards for trampoline and swim teams and graduated  in 1965.<br \/>\n\t  From 1967 to 1970, David served his country in Viet Nam and was always proud of his time in the Army.<br \/>\n\t  After returning home, David  worked many jobs, including  Dad\u2019s Bar where he continued to \u201chelp out\u201d for many years. In 1985, he started  his career at the Montana Department of Transportation,  staying there until he retied 25 years later.<br \/>\n\t  In 1982, David married Valerie  Marquardt. He met the love of his life in 1983 when his only child, Jordanne, was born. He was a good dad and always made sure she had everything she needed (or wanted!).<br \/>\n\t  David always enjoyed time spent with friends and family, especially playing pool with \u201cthe guys\u201d or golfing with his <\/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\/116966"}],"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=116966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117223,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116966\/revisions\/117223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116966"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=116966"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=116966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}