{"id":130218,"date":"2026-07-23T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/07\/23\/thomas-waller-20260722-0344-566854\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:01:29","modified_gmt":"2029-01-08T05:01:29","slug":"thomas-waller-20260722-0344-566854","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/07\/23\/thomas-waller-20260722-0344-566854\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Waller"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\n\t Thomas G. Waller, 75, of Nashua died July 1, 2026, at Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow.
\n\t Nobody loved life more than Tom Waller. His hearty laugh could be heard long before he could be seen and every day was an adventure.
\n\t He was born Sept. 5, 1950, the youngest of four and was raised on a farm near Froid, where he attended and graduated from Froid Public School. A brief sojourn to Denver, Colo., and airline school convinced him to return to country life. He fed his passion for animals by raising Maine Anjou cattle and eventually black Angus. He worked summers doing road construction for various companies but mainly Prince Inc. and a man he greatly admired was John Prince of Forsyth.
\n\t Hunting and fishing were more than hobbies for him. Every day was a good day to go fishing. He loved wildlife of all kinds and knew every Jeopardy question \u201cif\u201d that was the category. His dream of going to Alaska never materialized but one that did was living near Fort Peck Lake. The last 11 years of his life were spent on his boat, fishing with friends and family.
\n\t A real \u201cMr. Fix It,\u201d he was good at almost anything he set his mind to. He could fillet fish with the best of them. Cooking, canning, gardening, hunting, trapping and playing darts were some of his interests over the years.
\n\t He and high school sweetheart Linda raised three children in the country life near Froid: Russ, Shauna (Fettig) and Kyle.
\n\t He became ill in 2021 and was eventually diagnosed with myeloma. He fought hard with the help of a great care team at FMDH in Glasgow.
\n\t He was preceded in death by his parents, Halles Waller and Mary Waller; sons, Russell Waller and Kyle Waller; sister, Donna Scheibel and brother, James Waller.
\n\t He is survived by his wife, Linda of Nashua; daughter, Shauna Fettig of Laurel; two grandchildren; and sister, Sharon Harmon of Scranton, N.D.
\n\t Cremation has taken place and a celebration of his outdoor way of life will be at 2 p.m. on Friday, July 31, at the Froid Community Center and inurnment will be in Homestead Cemetery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130218"}],"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=130218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130307,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130218\/revisions\/130307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130218"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=130218"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=130218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}