{"id":63297,"date":"2023-07-27T05:01:30","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T11:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/?p=63297?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:45:28","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:45:28","slug":"gemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2023\/07\/27\/gemma\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Gemma"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Gemma Crowley-Smith, 83, died July 20, 2023, at Trinity  Hospital in Wolf Point.<br \/>\n\t  She was born Dec. 8, 1939, in Richland Center, Wis. She was the middle child and only daughter of Imelda Lucille  Doyle and Joseph Keeley  Crowley. She joined older  brother, Tom, and young brother Donald Joe \u201cDJ\u201d was later born.<br \/>\n\t  She grew up in Manitowoc, Wis., attending elementary  school at St. Paul Catholic  School. She attended St. Mary\u2019s Springs Academy in Fon Du Lac, Wis., her freshman  and sophomore years and attended her junior and senior years at Lincoln High School in Manitowoc, graduating in 1958.  After graduating high school, she attended Northwest  Institute of Medical Technology in Minneapolis, Minn. After graduating with a laboratory and X-ray technician  degree in December 1959, she took a job in Milwaukee,  Wis., as a medical laboratory technician.<br \/>\n\t  She received a call in the summer of 1961 from her college classmate, Barbara  Smith, to see if she could come out to Wolf Point and fill in at Trinity Hospital while Barbara was going on maternity leave. Ready for a change, she came to call Montana her home for the past 62 years.<br \/>\n\t  On June 6, 1964, she married  Ronnie Smith at St. Paul\u2019s Catholic Church in Manitowoc. She took a job with the Indian Health Service  as a medical laboratory  and X-ray technician in Poplar. They had three sons, Craig Roy, Douglas William and Daniel Joseph. She loved her job at the IHS Clinic in Poplar. Unfortunately, she was forced to retire in October  1981 due to being allergic to something in the laboratory  that couldn\u2019t be identified.<br \/>\n\t  After divorcing in 1985, she had several different occupations.  After her father\u2019s death in June 1988, she moved back<br \/>\n\tCrowley-Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63289,"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\/63297"}],"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=63297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63547,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63297\/revisions\/63547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63297"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=63297"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=63297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}