{"id":128868,"date":"2026-07-02T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/07\/02\/heather-corey-friesen\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:03:39","modified_gmt":"2028-12-18T05:03:39","slug":"heather-corey-friesen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/07\/02\/heather-corey-friesen\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Heather Corey Friesen"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Heather (Leinani) Corey  Friesen, a beloved wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend, passed away at her home in Billings on June 3, 2026.<br \/>\n\t  Born on December 23, 1951, in Honolulu, Hawaii, she was preceded in death by her parents,  Jim and Jeanne Corey; her brother, Garth; and loving  grandparents, Emily and Russell Hansen.<br \/>\n\t  Heather is survived by her husband, Pat; son, Chase, and daughter-in-law, Heather;  treasured grandchildren, <\/p>\n<p>\tHenzlee, Daxton and Ryett; her twin sister, Shanon (Nanilei); sisters-in-law, Mary (Bob) Buckles and Cathryn (Ken) Wylie; and nephews, Tommy, Kyle and Louie (Mary D.).<br \/>\n\t  Heather was a loving wife, amazing mom, cherished sister, unbelievable grandma and a friend to so many. She touched countless lives with her kindness, strength, generosity,  compassion and unwavering  love. We will truly miss her. No services are planned.<br \/>\n\t(Paid Obituary) <\/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\/128868"}],"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=128868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129078,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128868\/revisions\/129078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128868"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=128868"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=128868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}