{"id":61362,"date":"2023-06-22T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=61362?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:46:17","slug":"rodney-turntoes-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2023\/06\/22\/rodney-turntoes-sr\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Rodney TurnToes Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Rodney Bryce TurnToes Sr., 58, died Thursday, June 15.<br \/>\n\t  He was born in Poplar to Bernice Smoker-TurnToes and Louis Melvin TurnToes (Cheetah). He grew up in Frazer for most of his years and attended Frazer School. While attending school, he played basketball and baseball,  ran cross-country and track.<br \/>\n\t  When he graduated high school, he met Anita White. Their children are Latoya TurnToes, Curtis Smoker, Sheldon Smoker and Shayna TurnToes. They later separated,  but remained friends.<br \/>\n\t  Then, he met Ronna LaMere.  They were together 30+ years. During those years, they married and had four children, Rodney TurnToes Jr., Ronni Jo LaMere, Isaiah TurnToes and Lane Turn-Toes.<br \/>\n\t  He was a firefighter for the Fort Peck Tribes and Rockyboy.  He and his wife, Ronna, would cut wood for the elderly  in Rocky Boy.<br \/>\n\t  He is survived by his brothers,  DeWayne Bigleggins of Frazer, David Bigleggins of Frazer and Franklin TurnToes of Frazer; special sister, Adeline  Rose White of Frazer; daughters, Latoya LaRoque of Frazer, Ronni Jo LaMere of RockyBoy, Shayna TurnToes of Wolf Point; sons, Curtis Smoker of Frazer, Sheldon Smoker of Frazer, Rodney TurnToes Jr. of Rocky Boy, Isaiah TurnToes of Rocky Boy, Lane TurnToes of Box Elder; stepson, Lionel White of Wolf Point; and 17 grandchildren.<br \/>\n\t  He was preceded in death by his brothers, Harold, Eugene,  Dwight, Sherwin Bigleggins,  Louis and Melvin; and sister, Babygirl BigLeggins.<br \/>\n\t  His funeral was held Tuesday,  June 20, at 29 South Frazer  (Westland) Road. Interment  followed at Saint Joseph Cemetery. Clayton Stevenson Memorial Chapel had charge of the arrangements. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61359,"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\/61362"}],"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=61362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61534,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61362\/revisions\/61534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61362"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=61362"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=61362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}