{"id":136367,"date":"2026-10-22T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/10\/22\/mary-frances-black-dog\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-10-22T05:02:59","modified_gmt":"2029-04-09T05:02:59","slug":"mary-frances-black-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/10\/22\/mary-frances-black-dog\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Mary Frances Black Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Mary Frances Black Dog (Smith) was born September  29, 1974, to Frank Jorden Smith and Clairena Louise Smith (Andreasen) in Poplar, Montana. Mary passed away on October 10, 2026, in Murray, Utah.<br \/>\n\t  Mary grew up and spent most of her life in Poplar, MT. She attended and graduated from Poplar  Schools. Mary then went on to reside between Miles City, Brockton, Poplar,  and Billings.<br \/>\n\t  Mary\u2019s marriage to Carl Failing brought two children,  Isaac Mychael Anthony  Failing and Quentin Wayne Failing. Years after their divorce, she married William Black Dog, gaining  a daughter Chastity Black Dog. William and Mary later adopted Chastity\u2019s  daughter Jazmine Black Dog.<br \/>\n\t  Mary is survived by her children Isaac (Donna) Failing, Quentin Failing, and Jazmine Black Dog, grandchildren Kade, Liam, Rowan, Brooke, Justin, Marshall, Hiro, and Rayna,  her father Frank Smith, her older sister Theresa (Johnathan) Bailey, nephews  Brandon and Gregory Knoble, her brother Virgil (Michelle) Smith, nephews  Dakota and Kenshin Smith, and her younger  sister Suzann (Brian) Smith, nieces Tia Welzenbach  and Kaylee Kardell.<br \/>\n\t  Mary was preceded in death by her mother Clairena  Louise Smith, daughter  Chastity Black Dog, grandparents David and Frances Smith and grandparents  Virgil and Mary <\/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\/136367"}],"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=136367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136563,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136367\/revisions\/136563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136367"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=136367"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=136367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}