{"id":121413,"date":"2026-03-12T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/03\/12\/marilyn-hunsucker-20260311-0408-532419\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-03-12T05:00:39","modified_gmt":"2028-08-28T05:00:39","slug":"marilyn-hunsucker-20260311-0408-532419","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/03\/12\/marilyn-hunsucker-20260311-0408-532419\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn Hunsucker"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Marilyn Dianne Hunsucker, 72, of Cordova, N.C., formerly of Wolf Point died Sunday, March 1, 2026, at Richmond Co. Hospice Haven.<br \/>\n\t  She was born Aug. 24, 1953, to Merlin and Lilian Sorenson in Williston, N.D. In 1969, her father transferred was transferred  to Wolf Point with Montana-Dakota Utilities. She graduated from Wolf Point High School in 1971.<br \/>\n\t  She worked at Faith Home in Wolf Point until going to Great Falls.<br \/>\n\t  In 1972, she went to Great Falls to further her education to become a nurse. This is where she met and married Richard \u201cRick\u201d Hunsucker who was stationed at the air base there.<br \/>\n\t  They settled in Cordova and the couple built their life together. They had three children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She enjoyed life to the fullest.<br \/>\n\t  She was a nurse for 28 years as well as a phenomenal  quilter. She spent a lot of time at the river camping and boating with her family.  She also enjoyed time at the beach, riding horses and loved spending time outdoors.<br \/>\n\t She was preceded in death by her husband of 49 years, Rick Hunsucker.<br \/>\n\t  She is survived by her children, Ricky Hunsucker of Laurel Hill, Chris Hunsucker  of Hamlet and Alicia Mae Lunceford of Cordova;  five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and siblings,  Linda Pfeiffer of Wolf Point, Beverly Haggerty of Edgar, Bonnie Loran of Lockwood,  Carmen Cleveland of Indianapolis, Ind., Ronald Sorenson  of Sidney and Donald Sorenson of Williston, N.D.<br \/>\n\t  A memorial service was held Wednesday, March 4, at Watson-King Funeral Home in Hamlet with Vernon Dye officiating. <\/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\/121413"}],"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=121413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121579,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121413\/revisions\/121579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121413"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=121413"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=121413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}