{"id":47683,"date":"2022-11-17T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-northernplainsindependent-com-uswp*.sitenm.com\/?p=47683?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:51:29","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:51:29","slug":"james-dillon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2022\/11\/17\/james-dillon\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"James Dillon"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t James \u201cJim D\u201d Wilbur Dillon,  67, of Brockton died Nov. 8, 2022.<br \/>\n\t  He was born in Boulder, Colo., Jan. 22, 1955, to Charles and Jean Dillon. He spent his childhood in Victor. He then moved to Concrete, Wash., in high school and graduated there. After high school, he attended Eastern Washington  University and earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in education.  Later in life, he continued  his education at University  of Montana in Missoula and received his master\u2019s degree.<br \/>\n\t  In 1978, he met and married  Marty. In 1980, they had their first child, a son, Chaz. Soon after, they moved to Brockton and had two more children, daughters Kari and Caitlin.<br \/>\n\t  He began teaching at Brockton School\u2019s in 1980 and spent the rest of his teaching career there until he retired in 2006. He took on various roles in his career such as assistant administrator,  junior high science, high school art and supervisor for student council. He was very interactive with his students and was always known for hanging out in the hallway at lunch taking the time to get to know each of his students. He loved rewarding his students  for their accomplishments,  which is why he invented  the infamous gold slip auctions. He also had a deep love for high school sports. He could be seen doing everything  from announcing the starting lineup, taking stats and even sweeping the floors. He loved chaperoning the high school basketball tournaments.<br \/>\n\t  Later in life, he enjoyed visiting with friends, attending  auctions and hanging out with and spoiling his grandsons.<br \/>\n\t  He had many close relationships  with families of the community. He was a pillar of the community and respected  by many for the work he did with the students of the Brockton community.<br \/>\n\t  He was preceded in death by his wife, Marty; sister, Colleen;  and adopted son, Sean Bighorn.<br \/>\n\t  He is survived by his son, Chaz; daughters Kari and Caitlin; five grandsons; sister, Shannon; and adopted sons, Joseph Chase Sr. and Adrien Spotted Bird Jr.<br \/>\n\t  Funeral services were held Saturday, Nov. 12, at Brockton  High School. Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel was entrusted with arrangements. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47683"}],"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=47683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47831,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47683\/revisions\/47831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47683"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=47683"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=47683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}