{"id":131431,"date":"2026-08-13T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/08\/13\/michael-vandall\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-08-13T05:01:50","modified_gmt":"2029-01-29T05:01:50","slug":"michael-vandall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/08\/13\/michael-vandall\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Michael Vandall"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Michael Aaron Vandall, 41, of Wolf Point died Aug. 4, 2026 in Grand Forks, N.D.<br \/>\n\t  He was born in Wolf Point on Oct. 15, 1983. He spent his younger years in Wolf Point attending head start before his mother  moved the family to Portland, Ore. The family moved back to Wolf Point in 1992. As a child, he was the youngest sibling and would perform his spontaneous  \u201cperformances\u201d, singing, telling jokes and loving the attention he got from the entire family. He attended schools in Wolf Point, Chemawa and Riverside Indian Schools, then graduated from Kicking  Horse Job Corps with his diploma and a degree in facilities management.<br \/>\n\t  In 2025, he attended Fort Peck Community College.  Following school, he worked various jobs and was notorious for taking care of all his nieces and nephews. His passion was taking them fishing and giving all of them unconditional  love. He was known as the \u201cRiver Monster  Assassin,\u201d self-proclaimed,  of course. He was always known for his big smile, his offers of help and kindness.<br \/>\n\t  He had three daughters. He met Kaytlin Nation in 2007. Not long after that, in 2008, came his first daughter, Layla Marie Vandall. Daughter Vanessa Eileen Fatih Vandall was born in 2011 and, in 201, daughter Briana Lee Vandall  was born in 2023. His first grandchild is expected  in September. <\/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\/131431"}],"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=131431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131535,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131431\/revisions\/131535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131431"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=131431"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=131431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}