{"id":126637,"date":"2026-05-28T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/05\/28\/gene-youngman-20260528-1637-111219\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-05-28T10:37:12","modified_gmt":"2028-11-13T10:37:12","slug":"gene-youngman-20260528-1637-111219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/05\/28\/gene-youngman-20260528-1637-111219\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Gene Youngman"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Gene Alfred \u201cBaby Gene\u201d Youngman, 50, of Poplar died May 4, 2026, in Poplar.<br \/>\n\t  He was born on June 27, 1975, to Bernadette \u201cLucky Duck\u201d LovesHim and Daryl \u201cKool Aid\u201d Youngman in Poplar,  where he lived his whole life. He graduated from Poplar  High School.<br \/>\n\t  He loved to cruise around and enjoyed hanging out with family. His favorite person was his mother. He enjoyed listening to AC\/DC and Motley  Crue while playing dice games. He is survived by his sisters, Zelda LovesHim and Margaret LovesHim; brother, Raymond LovesHim.<br \/>\n\t  He was preceded in death by his sisters, Rebecca and Florence LovesHim.<br \/>\n\t  Funeral services were held Friday, May 22, at the Poplar Cultural Center. Burial was at St. Ann\u2019s Cemetery in Poplar. <\/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\/126637"}],"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=126637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126637"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=126637"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=126637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}