{"id":123031,"date":"2026-04-09T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/04\/09\/christopher-granbois-20260408-0324-480077\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:01:42","modified_gmt":"2028-09-25T05:01:42","slug":"christopher-granbois-20260408-0324-480077","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/04\/09\/christopher-granbois-20260408-0324-480077\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Granbois"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Christopher Michael Granbois (Bighorn), 54, died March 30, 2026, in Billings.<br \/>\n\t  He was born on March 17, 1972, in Wolf Point to Erna Granbois and Dean Bighorn. He lived in Poplar until 1976 when he moved to Miles City with his mother. He lived there until 1978 and attended  kindergarten in there. He moved back and lived in Poplar  until 1992. He attended elementary school through high school in Poplar. He graduated from Poplar High School in 1991.<br \/>\n\t  He moved to Buffalo, Nev., in 1992. While in Buffalo, he worked at the Navel Park and attended the Ford Asset Program in Niagara Falls to become a Ford Master Mechanic.  He graduated from this program in 1995.<br \/>\n\t  He worked as a Master Mechanic  at the Rainbow Ford dealership for several years. During this time, he met and married Tin Krilokowski and his first daughter, Heather, was born.<br \/>\n\t  He moved to Wyoming in 1997 where he worked for Ford dealerships in Powell and Casper. He made his home in Casper with his wife and three children until <\/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\/123031"}],"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=123031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123407,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123031\/revisions\/123407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123031"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=123031"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=123031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}