{"id":123026,"date":"2026-04-09T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/04\/09\/bruce-mahlen\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:00:35","modified_gmt":"2028-09-25T05:00:35","slug":"bruce-mahlen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/04\/09\/bruce-mahlen\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Mahlen"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> With heavy hearts, we announce  the passing of Bruce Garrett Mahlen, 71 years old, of Shoshoni, Wyo., who entered  eternal rest on March 26, 2026, surrounded by his loving family.<br \/>\n\t  Born on Jan. 16, 1955, to Ernest and Evelyn Mahlen, Bruce grew up with a competitive  spirit that defined his life. He was a man who worked hard so he could play harder.<br \/>\n\t  He is reunited in heaven with his beloved wife Pat Guidry-Mahlen, who passed away in 2010. He missed her dearly, and we take comfort in knowing they are together again.<br \/>\n\t  Bruce was a devoted father  to his children, Scott Mahlen, Jason Mahlen, Wendy  Nordtome, Kayla Mahlen and Summer Laven, and a proud Grandpa to all of his many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He was a presence you always felt when he was around.<br \/>\n\t  Bruce was always a man testing his luck at the local casino playing keno, almost always leaving with a win and a funny story. If it wasn\u2019t keno, it was most often a game of pool or bowling in <\/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":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123026"}],"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=123026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123323,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123026\/revisions\/123323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123026"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=123026"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=123026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}