{"id":40478,"date":"2022-01-13T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=40478?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2022-01-13T05:02:14","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T05:02:14","slug":"obituaries-20220112042642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2022\/01\/13\/obituaries-20220112042642\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Julie Howard"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Julie Ann Howard, 77, of Circle died Dec. 25, 2021, in Circle.<br \/>\n\t  She was born to Ed and Blanche Elverud of Circle on Nov. 11, 1944. She attended school in Circle, graduating as valedictorian of her high school class in 1962. While in school, she developed a love of music, learning to play the piano and the baritone saxophone  and it was that \u201cbarisax\u201d  that led her to Westmar College in Iowa on a music scholarship.<br \/>\n\t  While in college, she met her first husband, Vern Dockter, and together their journeys led her to Illinois, where, as a licensed teacher, she taught Spanish from 1966 through 1969. After a move to Denver, Colo., she earned a master\u2019s degree in library science  and earned the title of \u201cMom\u201d on April 12, 1971, welcoming  twins, Angela and Jeff Dockter, into the world. She returned to Circle in 1974 after a divorce.<br \/>\n\t  In 1976, she married Robert \u201cBob\u201d Thorgaard of Circle. She became a step-mother to Bob\u2019s three children and, together,  they welcomed eight grandchildren into the family during their 15-year marriage that ended with Bob\u2019s death in 1991.<br \/>\n\t  A long-time friendship culminated in a marriage to John Albert \u201cBub\u201d Howard on July 4, 1993. Soon after, they welcomed two grandchildren  into the family while he farmed and she worked for Circle Insurance Agency, where she sold insurance until  her retirement.<br \/>\n\t  In retirement, she devoted her time to playing the piano on Sundays at the Evangelical Church in Circle, serving on the board of the Circle Chamber  of Commerce, and starting  many numerous quilting projects that produced many beautiful quilts.<br \/>\n\t  She is survived by her husband,  Bub Howard; brother, Ed Elverud; and two children, Angela Harris and Jeff Dockter;  two step-children and numerous grandchildren.<br \/>\n\t  A celebration of life was held at the Evangelical Church in Circle on Sunday, Jan. 9. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40473,"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\/40478"}],"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=40478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40478"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=40478"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=40478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}