{"id":125747,"date":"2026-05-21T05:01:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/05\/21\/melvin-martell-20260520-0347-287003\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-05-21T05:06:43","modified_gmt":"2028-11-06T05:06:43","slug":"melvin-martell-20260520-0347-287003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/05\/21\/melvin-martell-20260520-0347-287003\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Melvin Martell"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Melvin Martell, 49, of Wolf Point died May 3, 2026, in Wolf Point.<br \/>\n\t  He was born on Aug. 1, 1976, to Mavis Martell and Victor \u201cKenny\u201d WalkingEagle  Sr. He attended school at Wolf Point High and was the \u201cking\u201d for Wolf Point prom \u2014 a moment he loved.<br \/>\n\t  He met Tonya Gallant and moved to Juneau, Alaska. From this union, they had two boys, Joshua Martell and Robert Martell, who he named after his best friend who was like a brother, Robert SwiftEagle. He later moved back home from Alaska  to be with his mother.<br \/>\n\t  He had a heart of gold and was always there if you needed  him. He would take the shirt off his back if you needed  it. He would always walk and make his rounds to check on his loved ones to make sure they were okay, especially  Brooke Lynn and Jennifer.<br \/>\n\t  He was in Blue Earth Boxing.  He liked driving around jamming out, playing basketball, <\/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\/125747"}],"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=125747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126008,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125747\/revisions\/126008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125747"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=125747"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=125747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}