{"id":24582,"date":"2020-10-15T05:05:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T11:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=24582?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2020-10-15T06:41:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T12:41:22","slug":"alvin-talks-different","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2020\/10\/15\/alvin-talks-different\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"LaVal BigLeggins"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t LaVal Arnold BigLeggins, 60, of Poplar died Oct. 6, 2020.<br \/>\n\t  He was born on April 13, 1960, to Margaret and Donald  BigLeggins in Poplar. He spent most of his life in Poplar,  where he called home. He loved his music and driving around and hanging with his best friend Lester Menz and all his buddies.<br \/>\n\t  He liked cooking for his sister Brenda, who he was living  with, always wanting her to eat his cooking. His favorite  soup was hangover soup, which he was very proud of. When he lived alone, his nephew Robert Birthmark would check on him and bring him a hot meal.<br \/>\n\t  He was always happy and joking with everyone. Everyone  knew him by \u201cThe Rock.\u201d He loved his wrestling. His favorite one was \u201cThe Undertaker.\u201d  He would sit for hours, hollering and making everyone  laugh.<br \/>\n\t  He had three children, Nova BigLeggins of Billings, Lavia BigLeggins of Poplar and John Leggit of Wolf Point.<br \/>\n\t  He was preceded in death by his sisters, Rhonda BigLeggins,  Carla Olson and Davetta Lester; and one brother, Percy Lester.<br \/>\n\t  He is survived by his sisters,  Valerie White Hawk, Brenda Good Bird, Veronica  BigLeggin and Shannon White Hawk of Billings; two brothers, Richard BigLeggins and Curtis BigLeggins, both of Poplar; and three granddaughters.<br \/>\n\t  Funeral services were held Tuesday, Oct. 13, at the Brenda BigLeggins\u2019 residence. Interment  was in the Poplar City Cemetery. Clayton Stevenson  Memorial Chapel was in charge of the arrangements. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24737,"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\/24582"}],"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=24582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24738,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24582\/revisions\/24738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24582"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=24582"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=24582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}