{"id":35829,"date":"2021-06-10T05:02:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T11:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=35829?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2021-06-10T05:06:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T05:06:25","slug":"william-crowe-20210609034219","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2021\/06\/10\/william-crowe-20210609034219\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"William Crowe"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t William \u201cWillie\u201d \u201cStubbie\u201d Crowe, 38, died unexpectedly  on Saturday, May 29, 2021, at his home in Bainville.<br \/>\n\t  He was born on Oct 12, 1982, in Santa Cruz, Calif., and was adopted at one-day old by Fred and Sally Crowe. He spent his childhood in Bend, Ore., where he was a fun-loving and mischievous child who played soccer, swam on the local swim team and was active in 4-H.<br \/>\n\t  After high school, he volunteered  in the Navy as a fire control technician maintaining  the Close-In-Weapons-System on the USS Lincoln aircraft carrier and then did a tour of duty in Iraq maintaining  a Navy missile defense system.<br \/>\n\t  Upon leaving the Navy, he was a building contractor in and around Lewiston, Idaho, and worked as a welder of windmill systems in Dayton, Wash., before moving to Williston,  N.D., in 2008 to begin a career in the dynamic oil services industry.<br \/>\n\t  Following up on his love of the outdoors and working with his hands, he found his true calling as a cowboy in northern Montana. He became  the right-hand man for Dave Granley on his cattle ranch and grain farm, where he fully enjoyed his life until his death.<br \/>\n\t  His needs were simple \u2014 he loved his friends, his dog Heidi, his truck and helping others. He was a brilliant thinker with a love of reading. He had an honest personality that was huge.<br \/>\n\t  He is survived by his parents,  Sally Crowe of Bend, Ore., and Fred Crowe of Dayton,  Wash., and his sister, Cameron of New York City.<br \/>\n\t  He was preceded in death by his younger sister and best friend in life, Katherine. He was known for having a big heart and caring nature which he acquired by helping Katherine, who was quadriplegic  but very social. He is also survived by his family in Idaho: Lonna and Ron Bishop and their children; Katherine, RJ, Gene and Jacob.<br \/>\n\t  A memorial service was held in Montana at the Bainville Firehall on Saturday, June 5. Another service will be held near Lewiston, Idaho, at a later date. <\/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\/35829"}],"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=35829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35829"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=35829"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=35829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}