{"id":41439,"date":"2022-03-03T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=41439?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2022-03-03T05:04:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T05:04:29","slug":"alta-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2022\/03\/03\/alta-champ\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Alta Champ"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Alta Leah Champ, 57, of Billings died at home on Feb. 11, 2022.<br \/>\n\t  She was born on July 5, 1965, on Poplar. She attended  Poplar High School and continued her studies in Lawrence, Kansas, where she attended Haskell Indian Nations University.  In 2005, she married Melvin  Champ. They resided together in Billings after marrying.<br \/>\n\t  She worked as a home health aide. She was very loving  and generous. She helped those in need and loved to give back to others. She was well loved by everyone who had the opportunity to know her.<br \/>\n\t  One of her accomplishments  was being an ordained Pentecostal minister. Teaching  Sunday school to children was one of her great joys in life. She was great with children,  especially her grandchildren  who she cherished.<br \/>\n\t  Besides her love of spreading  joy to others and teaching,  she enjoyed arts and crafts. She had gifted hands and like to make Native beading  and sewing crafts.<br \/>\n\t  She was very fortunate enough to travel all over the country with her husband. Together, they took several trips a year to see new places. Alta&apos;s favorite place to visit was Nashville, Tenn.<br \/>\n\t  She was predeceased by her brother, Allard Savior.<br \/>\n\t  She is survived by her mother, Verbena Savior Jackson  and her husband, Royce, of Poplar; brother, Alfred &apos;Jr.&apos; Savior of Poplar; daughters, Cherish Gutierrez of Utah and Chance Robles of Billings;  six grandchildren; stepchildren,  Raymond, Johnalena,  Deborah, Joe, John, Issac and Deline; and four step-grandchildren.<br \/>\n\t  Cremation has taken place and a burial of cremains will take place later in the Poplar Cemetery. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41437,"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\/41439"}],"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=41439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41450,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41439\/revisions\/41450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41439"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=41439"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=41439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}