{"id":118606,"date":"2026-01-22T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/01\/22\/shirley-edwards\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-01-22T05:00:46","modified_gmt":"2028-12-07T05:00:46","slug":"shirley-edwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/01\/22\/shirley-edwards\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Shirley Edwards"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Shirley Ann Edwards, 86, of Whitetail died Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Billings.<br \/>\n\t  She was born July 23, 1939, in Scobey to Edward and Evelyn  Duval. She grew up in Flaxville, graduating valedictorian  in 1957 from Flaxville High School.<br \/>\n\t  She married her high school sweetheart, Frank Edwards,  in 1959. The couple began their life farming and living in the house that Frank lived in as a child, north of Madoc. They had two children,  Craig Steven (died in July 1978) and Grant Allan.<br \/>\n\t  She enjoyed gardening, her flowers and entertaining family and friends. She loved to cook and bake, especially pies for special functions and for her family and friends.<br \/>\n\t  For 43 years, she worked at Wolfe-Daniels Agency in Scobey. She enjoyed the work and her fellow employees.<br \/>\n\t  She was a member of the Catholic Church, working at various functions through her life.<br \/>\n\t After retiring in 2023, she started doing things that she had not had time for when working, especially reading a good book and crocheting or embroidering.<br \/>\n\t  She was preceded in death by a brother, Gary Duval.<br \/>\n\t  She is survived by her husband  of 66 years, Frank; son, Grant; two granddaughters; two great-grandchildren; and sister, Denise of Redmond, Ore.<br \/>\n\t  A funeral Mass will be held Saturday, Jan. 24, at 11 a.m. in St. Philip Bonitus Catholic Church in Scobey. <\/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\/118606"}],"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=118606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118730,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118606\/revisions\/118730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118606"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=118606"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=118606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}