{"id":125216,"date":"2026-05-14T05:01:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T11:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/05\/14\/katherine-talks-different-20260513-0349-105055\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:07:06","modified_gmt":"2028-10-30T05:07:06","slug":"katherine-talks-different-20260513-0349-105055","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/05\/14\/katherine-talks-different-20260513-0349-105055\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Talks Different"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katherine \u201cKathy\u201d Talks Different, \u201cShunga Wachi Dancing Dog,\u201d 70, of Frazer died May 5, 2026, at Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow.
\n\t She was the second child born to Ruby Mae Four Star Runs Through and Wallace Merle Runs Through Sr. and was born on July 14, 1955, in Poplar. She was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
\n\t She received her diploma through Frazer High School with the class of 1973. During her junior year in high school, she also participated in the Lamanite placement program and stayed with the Christianson family in Royal City, Wash. She worked for the Frazer School as a janitor when she was a senior through the youth program.
\n\t She met Sherman Joseph Talks Different Sr. at the Red Bottom Celebration and, five months later, they were married on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 22, 1973, at her family home in Frazer. She said it was love at first sight. Through this marriage, she gained eight children along with a step-son, as well as many sisters and brothers.
\n\t She attended college at Montana State University – Northern in Havre and worked as a teacher\u2019s aide at the Frazer Public School for a number of years. She also worked as a CNA at Faith Lutheran Home and Trinity Hospital. They later made their home in Hays.
\n\t She loved to sew and quilt. She made clothes for her children, doll clothes, patch quilts, star quilts and dance regalia. She was a really good artist and loved to create and make things. She liked puzzle books with cryptograms being her favorite. She loved to play Scrabble and Yahtzee. Her husband taught her to play whist and cribbage. She loved to sing and whistle a tune when she was busy cleaning or washing and hanging up clothes.
\n\t She is survived by her children, <\/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\/125216"}],"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=125216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125332,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125216\/revisions\/125332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125216"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=125216"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=125216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}