{"id":135888,"date":"2026-10-15T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/10\/15\/kevin-hentges\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-10-15T05:04:47","modified_gmt":"2029-04-02T05:04:47","slug":"kevin-hentges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/10\/15\/kevin-hentges\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Hentges"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Kevin Earl Hentges, 66, of Frazer died Sept. 28, 2026, at his home.<br \/>\n\t  He was born to Ed and Barbara (Wilkinson) Hentges  on Oct. 20, 1959. He was born the fifth of nine children, all of whom carried  the initial\u2019s KEH. He attended school in Frazer and graduated from Nashua  High School in 1978.<br \/>\n\t  He enlisted in the U.S. Army where he was awarded a letter of commendation  for the highest score on Soldier\u2019s Stakes in his platoon. His father, Ed, died in 1980 and Kevin  was let out of the Army on a hardship request to come home to continue the farm\/ranch operation for his mother and younger  siblings. He continued the operation for several years also running his own crop dusting business, Hentges Spraying. He took pride in buying his plane, his Super Cub, to learn how to fly from one of the best, Norman Sibley. He and his best friend Doug Long spent many hours together, learning everything  there was to know about planes and flying. He then used his plane to spray for many local farmers.  He was also a meticulous  mechanic who kept many machines in operation  at home and for the Fort Peck Tribal Ranch. He lived his later years as a self-employed rancher.<br \/>\n\t  He married Nadine Adams  in 1983. Together, they had Kayla and Kelley who joined older sister, Kaci. They later divorced, but remained friends. Later, he met Octavia Ackerman and their children, Zayden and Kassidy, were born. He treasured his children (his cows were a close second) and loved the fact that he had children later <\/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\/135888"}],"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=135888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136131,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135888\/revisions\/136131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135888"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=135888"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=135888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}