{"id":126940,"date":"2026-06-04T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/06\/04\/dustin-kluth-20260603-0332-422719\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-06-04T05:07:05","modified_gmt":"2028-11-20T05:07:05","slug":"dustin-kluth-20260603-0332-422719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/06\/04\/dustin-kluth-20260603-0332-422719\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Kluth"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Dustin Lee Kluth, 60, of Vida died March 22, 2026, at McCone County Health Center.<br \/>\n\t  He was born in Wolf Point on March 9, 1966, to Robert \u201cBob\u201d Kluth and Betty (Remley)  Kluth. Hen was the third of six siblings, growing up on the family farm and ranch in Vida.<br \/>\n\t  He spent many of his formative  years attending Vida Elementary School, riding dirt bikes and horses, farming  with his parents and siblings,  working many an odd job over the summers and, of course, taking care of the cows.<br \/>\n\t  He made the move to attend  High School in Circle, where he met Sherry Evenson.  In 1989, they began their lives as one, marrying in Circle on Dec. 15. They then began their journey together with an adventurous move to Arizona, with a single cab pickup and a couple hundred dollars to their name they began  a new life. During their many adventures and 11 years in Arizona, they had a son, Justice Lee Kluth, in 1994. In 1997, they moved back to Montana to raise their family and be closer to their families.  They raised their son, Justice, on the family farm with family values, teaching him many skills such as carpentry,  proper animal care and the importance of a wellbuilt  fence.<br \/>\n\t  He spent several years working alongside his dad at Kluth Construction and working the family ranch, until  he settled into his career at Mid-Rivers Communications  in 1999. He was employed  with Mid -Rivers until 2026, over his many years <\/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\/126940"}],"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=126940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127224,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126940\/revisions\/127224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126940"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=126940"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=126940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}