{"id":42048,"date":"2022-03-31T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps02.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=42048?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2022-03-31T05:02:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T05:02:18","slug":"carol-michels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2022\/03\/31\/carol-michels\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Carol Michels"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Carol Jean Michels of Medicine  Lake died March 22, 2022, at St. Vincent&apos;s Hospital in Billings.<br \/>\n\t  She was born May 14, 1945, to Jens and Marie Jensen in Plentywood. She was the last of six, following Ellen, June, Johnny, Shirley and Lillian.<br \/>\n\t  She married Gary Ereth in January 1961 and, together,  they had Craig, Wanda, Sandra, Timothy and Tasha. They lived in many places together, including southern California, Arizona, Wyoming,  western Montana and Medicine Lake before moving  to her family farm west of Medicine Lake. They eventually  divorced.<br \/>\n\t  She and Jeff Michels blended  their families into one in the early 1990s, living together  on the family farm raising their two youngest daughters, Tasha and Danielle.  They were later married  in March 2011. Together, they owned C&amp; J Automotive, where they worked together for many years.<br \/>\n\t  She was known by many for her excellent cooking due to her time working in area cafes and clubs. She also worked as a cook at Medicine Lake Schools for a time. Later,  she owned Carol\u2019s Cafe in Froid, where she shared her culinary skills with whomever  was lucky enough to stumble  upon it.<br \/>\n\t  She was an accomplished seamstress, sewing many of the suits and dresses for her older sons\u2019 and daughters\u2019 proms, special performances and sweetheart balls, as well as chic coats for her younger daughters. She even sewed clothing for others as a way to earn extra income in the early years. Upholstery became  another skill she mastered,  owning an upholstery shop in Medicine Lake in the early 2000s.<br \/>\n\t  She loved flowers and planted them to enliven the outside living spaces at her country home. She especially liked visiting the area nurseries  to find just the right varieties.  Her artistic side found expression in painting as <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42038,"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\/42048"}],"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=42048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42048"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=42048"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=42048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}