{"id":130488,"date":"2026-07-30T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/07\/30\/dee-erickson\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-07-30T05:05:58","modified_gmt":"2029-01-15T05:05:58","slug":"dee-erickson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/07\/30\/dee-erickson\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Dee Erickson"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Dee would like to let you all know that her work here on earth is done. She recently received a call, let\u2019s just say it was an offer she could not refuse, for an appointment from which she will not be returning. This assignment comes with a reunion with family and friends; some she has not seen in a long time including her son Barry who was only on this earth for seven short days.<br \/>\n\t  No clocks where she is now \u2026 she will no longer have to wonder why she was the only one who shows up 30 minutes early. The food is delicious, and she will never gain an ounce plus nobody will question her decision to have cr\u00e8me brulee before the meal instead of after. She has also left detailed instructions for her children to celebrate her mission on earth, which has now been completed.<br \/>\n\t  Dee Delger Erickson came into this world on Feb. 5, 1939, in Fort Peck to parents Eddie and Louise Delger. Her father was one of more than 10,000 employed building the Fort Peck Dam as part of President  Franklin Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal.<br \/>\n\t  Our amazing mom learned a strong work ethic growing up in Wolf Point. She always had a job while attending high school. Soon after high school, she had another career  as a farm wife. Dee and Marvin were married on Aug. 24, 1957, in Wolf Point. They were married for 28 years until her husband, Marvin,  passed away in January of 1985.<br \/>\n\t  Nobody who knew Dee would ever call her just a farm wife. They would also say she sold Tupperware, <\/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\/130488"}],"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=130488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130604,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130488\/revisions\/130604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130488"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=130488"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=130488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}