{"id":125215,"date":"2026-05-14T05:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/05\/14\/maurice-draszt-20260513-0349-095631\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:08:17","modified_gmt":"2028-10-30T05:08:17","slug":"maurice-draszt-20260513-0349-095631","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/05\/14\/maurice-draszt-20260513-0349-095631\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Maurice Draszt"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Maurice \u201cJR\u201d Draszt Jr., 68, of Poplar died April 28, 2026, at the Poplar Hospital.<br \/>\n\t  He was born Sept. 16, 1957, to Maurice Draszt Sr. and Mercelline Draszt in Poplar. His Indian Name was Wicana Isnana (Man Stands Alone).<br \/>\n\t  He had quite the adventurous  life \u2014 he lived and traveled  all over the United States from Provo, Utah., where he attended BYU, Missouri to Washington and in his final years back to his hometown of Poplar. He loved to travel and would often head out on a whim to wherever he wanted,  often back and forth to Washington, California, Mexico  and Canada.<br \/>\n\t  Throughout the years, he worked for the City of Poplar, NAES College, YMCA and as an EMT. While he lived in Washington, he worked for the Tulalip Casino, Boeing  and also cooked in concession  stands around the Tulalip area. He was a bartender  at Depot, Log Cabin, Stockman\u2019s and Hey Johns. He also worked for Fort Peck Tribes in many departments with the last being the mailroom  clerk, a position he very much looked forward to returning to when he was healthy again.<br \/>\n\t  He was into many hobbies, but especially enjoyed baking.  Every gathering he came to, he made sure to bring some type of baked goods. He could write calligraphy <\/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\/125215"}],"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=125215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125329,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125215\/revisions\/125329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125215"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=125215"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=125215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}