{"id":55195,"date":"2023-03-09T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=55195?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:48:38","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:48:38","slug":"james-simoneau-20230308-0454-439159","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2023\/03\/09\/james-simoneau-20230308-0454-439159\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"James Simoneau"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> James Michael \u201cJim\u201d Simoneau, 70, of Medicine Lake died March 4, 2023, at St. Patrick\u2019s Hospital in Missoula.<br \/>\n\t  He was the fourth son of George and Laura (Kelly) Simoneau and was born at Roosevelt Hospital in Culbertson  on Aug. 27, 1952.<br \/>\n\t  After graduating from Medicine Lake High School, he attended the University of Montana, graduating in December  1975, earning a bachelor  of arts degree in business administration &#8211; finance.<br \/>\n\t  After working for several years with forest management  for the State of Montana,  he returned to Medicine  Lake and worked for the Medicine Lake High School from 1981 until his retirement in 2017, many years as head custodian. He also was the golf instructor for several years at the high school.<br \/>\n\t  He was a kind and generous  man, full of optimism and good cheer. One could not find a more humble and genteel person. He quickly made friends with anyone he met \u2014 making many of those individuals lifelong and dear friends. He was very attached to his phone and was often the one to call family members  and friends to check how they were doing and ensure communication lines stayed open.<br \/>\n\t  He loved to play cards, especially  pinochle and cribbage.  He was an avid sports fan, especially playing golf and watching the Montana Grizzlies or the Pittsburg Steelers. He died with a blanket  for each team comforting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55139,"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\/55195"}],"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=55195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55312,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55195\/revisions\/55312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55195"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=55195"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=55195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}