{"id":57096,"date":"2023-04-06T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=57096?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:47:50","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:47:50","slug":"leonard-hustad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2023\/04\/06\/leonard-hustad\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Leonard Hustad"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Leonard Johann Hustad, 89, of Bainville, Mont., passed away on March 28, 2023, at Roosevelt Nursing Home in Culbertson, Mont., after a full and long life.<br \/>\n\t  Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral  Home of Williston is assisting the family. Friends may sign the on-line register and give their condolences at www.fulkersons.com.<br \/>\n\t  Born May 12, 1933 in Lustre, Mont., Dad grew up during the Great Depression and World War II. He was the third child of Norwegian immigrant  Anton and Alma (Kjensrud)  Hustad. He joined older brother Myron and sister  Doris, not long after, Russell  and Marlon were born. The five siblings filled their simple tar paper shack. Dad\u2019s simple up bringing played a large part of who he would be. He left school after the eighth grade, finding work on the Hustad farm, as a laborer  on the Glasgow Air Force base, as well as a delivery driver for a local gas company.<br \/>\n\t  On Oct. 20, 1957, Dad married  Betty Eschenbacher and together they raised two sons, Don and David, whom Mom brought into their marriage.  I was born in 1958 and the family was complete. In 1965, we moved back to Mom\u2019s family farm, north of Bainville, where they raised their family and continued to work the farm together. They truly were a great pair, working side by side, as they milked cows which they delivered  to local customers.<br \/>\n\t  Dad was a hard worker, a man of many trades and incredibly  stubborn. This was a testament to his strong Norwegian  heritage. When they moved to Bainville, he found his true passion for farming and ranching. He was known as a \u201cfrugal\u201d guy often going to auctions to buy machinery  and other things that he might need one day. Growing  up during the depression, he used what he had, fixed what was broken and saved \u201ceverything.\u201d If you didn\u2019t have the money to pay for it, you simply did without. He never found a used tire he didn\u2019t like. To our recollection,  he never once bought a new tire. He taught me to be self-sufficient and even made me fix my own bike tires. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57087,"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\/57096"}],"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=57096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57258,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57096\/revisions\/57258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57096"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=57096"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=57096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}