{"id":40334,"date":"2022-01-06T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=40334?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2022-01-06T05:07:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T05:07:37","slug":"manuel-melbourne-20220105161548","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2022\/01\/06\/manuel-melbourne-20220105161548\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Manuel Paul &apos;Manny&apos; Melbourne  Jr., 75, of Poplar died Dec. 18, 2021, in Poplar.<br \/>\n\t  He was born on July 12, 1946, to Lydia Cynthia Johnson  and Manuel Paul Melbourne  Sr. in Poplar.<br \/>\n\t  He was a tri-athlete, excelling  in basketball, track and football, leaving unbroken records  for Poplar High School. Because of his excellence in sports, he received a full ride scholarship to Northern Montana College. He attended  a trade school in California,  earning a welding\/machine tool degree.  He spent many years as an employee of Fort Peck Tribes, A&amp; S Industries and Fort Peck Housing Authority as a carpenter, building houses, performing machine maintenance,  as well as various office  positions.<br \/>\n\t  He enjoyed shooting pool, playing horseshoes, playing softball, hunting, trapshooting  and visiting with friends near and far.<br \/>\n\t  He was preceded in death by his wife, Aleta Archdale; son, Alex Stearns; step-son, Frederick Archdale; brothers,  Alfred Melbourne, Clifford  Melbourne and Lionel Johnson; and sisters, Beulah Melbourne, Arlene Johnson, Renee Melbourne, Paula Melbourne and Cheryl Melbourne.<br \/>\n\t  He is survived by his daughters,  Michelle Melbourne, Monica Melbourne-Franklin and Lorraine Hopkins; and five grandchildren.<br \/>\n\t  Funeral services were held on Wednesday, Dec. 29, at the Poplar Cultural Center. Interment  followed at St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery. Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel was entrusted with arrangements. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40331,"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\/40334"}],"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=40334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40350,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40334\/revisions\/40350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40334"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=40334"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=40334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}