{"id":118270,"date":"2026-01-15T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/01\/15\/tony-pedersen\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-01-15T05:02:21","modified_gmt":"2028-11-30T05:02:21","slug":"tony-pedersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/01\/15\/tony-pedersen\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Tony Pedersen"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Tony Pedersen, 75, died Jan. 4, 2026, in Alaska.<br \/>\n\t  He was born in Plentywood on May 27, 1950, to Clearence and Milly Pedersen.<br \/>\n\t  He and Karen Kurokawa were married in November 1974 and had five children, Tomi, Toni, James, Luke and Jiro.<br \/>\n\t  He was a Viet Nam War veteran, diesel mechanic and long-haul truck driver.<br \/>\n\t  He was preceded in death by a son, Jimmy; three sisters, Conny, Karen and Faith; and a brother, Art.<br \/>\n\t  He is survived by seven children, Tony, Tomi, Toni, Luke, Jiro, Brandy and Jody; a brother, Danny; and many nieces and nephews in Plentywood.<br \/>\n\t  Services are planned sometime in the summer in Plentywood. <\/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\/118270"}],"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=118270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118441,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118270\/revisions\/118441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118270"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=118270"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=118270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}