{"id":128871,"date":"2026-07-02T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/07\/02\/william-hubing-jr\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-07-02T05:02:20","modified_gmt":"2028-12-18T05:02:20","slug":"william-hubing-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/07\/02\/william-hubing-jr\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"William Hubing Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> William Jr. \u201cChuck\u201d Hubing,  101, of Miles City died June 17, 2026, at St. Vincent\u2019s in Billings.<br \/>\n\t  He was born Sept. 7, 1924, in Glendive, the son of Will and Daisy (Croatt) Hubing. He joined brothers, Lee and Greg, and sister, Lucille. The Hubings came to Montana from Wisconsin in the early  1900s and homesteaded in the Brockway (McCone County) area. Will and Daisy eventually moved their family  to Terry when Chuck was a young boy.<br \/>\n\t  He spent his early years traveling \u201cthe north side\u201d of the Yellowstone River with his father buying cattle and horses. He was fortunate to live in a time and place where the country was wide open and full of horses. He loved taking part in some of the big horse round-ups that occurred in eastern Montana. When he was in his early teens, he left school and went to work for Susan Haughian.<br \/>\n\t  In 1947, he married Marjorie  Chapman. To this union, three daughters were born. For the next two decades, he and boyhood friend, Art Reukauf, bought and leased land around eastern Montana and western North Dakota to run their livestock. In the late \u201860s and early \u201870s, he was involved in a cattle operation  in Australia. Referred to as \u201cThe Big 10,\u201d it consisted of 10 ranchers from eastern Montana who bought land and gathered wild cattle in the Outback along the Fitzroy  River and Alice Springs. He traveled to Australia several <\/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\/128871"}],"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=128871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129084,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128871\/revisions\/129084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128871"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=128871"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=128871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}