{"id":62112,"date":"2023-07-06T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=62112?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:45:59","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:45:59","slug":"agnes-johnston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2023\/07\/06\/agnes-johnston\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Agnes Johnston"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Agnes M. Johnston, 75, of Frazer died Tuesday, June 27, 2023  She was born Feb. 11, 1948, in Wolf Point to Savannah E. Sweeny and Raymond Johnston.  She was their only child.<br \/>\n\t  She is a member of the Hude\u2018sana (Red Bottom) Clan of Nakota and was an active Red Bottom Celebration  committee member for many years. She grew up in the Wicohan religion, attending  ceremonies and rituals all of her life. She was an ambassador  of culture and was an Oil Celebration Princess and traveled with her parents to many celebrations\/powwows representing the Fort Peck Tribes.<br \/>\n\t  Her early years were spent in Wiota at her mother\u2019s home. They moved to Nashua  when Agnes began school. When her mother began to work for the BIA, they moved to Poplar. During the winter, they stayed in town so she wouldn\u2019t miss school, but the summers they spent in Wiota.  She graduated from Poplar High School.<br \/>\n\t  Upon graduation, she attended  Dawson Community College for one year. While attending Dawson Community  College, she met Arron Wayne Anderson. They were blessed with a daughter, Jo-Beth. Tragedy struck soon after the baby was born and Arron died.<br \/>\n\t  Her best friend Janet Youngman convinced her to come out of grief because she was still young. \u201cBe adventurous  and let\u2019s attend Bacon  College in Oklahoma for one year.\u201d With Janet twisting her arm, Agnes joined her in Oklahoma.<br \/>\n\t  Returning from Oklahoma, she married Harry Hamilton and they had two children. They divorced, but remained friends.<br \/>\n\t Throughout her life, she held various positions with the BIA, NAES College and the Fort Peck Tribes. After receiving her college degree, she began working at Fort Peck Tribal Health and Spotted  Bull Treatment Center. She enjoyed working and thrived in the environment of support and friendship of her coworkers. She retired in 2012.<br \/>\n\t  She enjoyed the socialization  received when going to powwows, traveling and visiting new places, playing machines at the casinos and attending ceremonies.<br \/>\n\t  She enjoyed being with her grandchildren and watching her favorite TV shows  Naked &amp;  Afraid  and  NCIS  and local basketball teams during the season.<br \/>\n\t  She is survived by her son, Raymond J. Hamilton; daughters, JoBeth Johnston and Chrissy Hamilton; and six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.<br \/>\n\t  Funeral services were held Sunday, July 2, at the Wolf Point Community Hall, followed  by burial at Chicken Hill. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62104,"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\/62112"}],"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=62112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62336,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62112\/revisions\/62336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62112"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=62112"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=62112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}