{"id":135890,"date":"2026-10-15T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/10\/15\/chris-martinez-20261014-0558-120173\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-10-15T05:03:32","modified_gmt":"2029-04-02T05:03:32","slug":"chris-martinez-20261014-0558-120173","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/10\/15\/chris-martinez-20261014-0558-120173\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Chris Martinez"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Chris Lionel Martinez, 54, of Wolf Point died Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, in Wolf Point.<br \/>\n\t  Born to Jose Albert Martinez and Alvina Emily  Reum, he was the first baby born in St. Anthony, Idaho, on Jan. 10, 1972. He was born on his parents\u2019 10th anniversary and was their fifth child.<br \/>\n\t  The family moved to Wolf Point in 1975 and he graduated from high school in 1990.<br \/>\n\t  In 1993, Chris and Nikki  Hammons had a son, Miguel. Although they moved to Glasgow, Chris attended his graduation and talked about him.<br \/>\n\t  He and Stacey Dewitt were together for over 20 years and raised three sons, Walker, Maestro and Slade. They were active in watching the boys in their sports and different activities,  including wrestling, baseball and basketball. He liked to take care of the Yellowjackets\u2019 baseball field.<br \/>\n\t  He graduated as valedictorian  at Fort Peck Community College in May 2005. He worked for the college before leaving to work as a fresh water treatment plant operating outside Wolf Point.<br \/>\n\t  He and Becky Stensland started dating in 2015 and were together for 10 years. They raised her daughter, Madison, and their beloved furbabies.  He could cook. With a towel on his shoulder, he <\/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\/135890"}],"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=135890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136126,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135890\/revisions\/136126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135890"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=135890"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=135890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}