{"id":77010,"date":"2024-03-14T05:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T11:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2024\/03\/14\/monte-wicka\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:41:18","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:41:18","slug":"monte-wicka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2024\/03\/14\/monte-wicka\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Monte Wicka"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Monte Wicka, born and raised in Libby, Mont., died unexpectedly on Feb. 29, 2024, at the age of 71 at his home on the Kootenai River on a Leap Day, unique just like him.<br \/>\n\t  Monte is survived by his wife, Leta, younger brothers, Mark (Karen Schultz) and Matt Wicka; brother-in-law, Barry (wife Irene); nieces and nephews, Wyatt, Justine  (wife Ashley), Savanna (husband Scott) and Tyson (wife Carissa); great-nephews,  Remington, Bensen, River; children, Jason and Zak; grandchildren, Jordan (Helaina), Taylor (husband Johnny), Barret, Canyon, Halle,  Kate and Paisley, Hudson; and many more nieces, nephews,  cousins, good friends and former coworkers.<br \/>\n\t  Monte lived life to the fullest,  a true Libby man who loved hunting, fishing, outdoors,  golf, Taekwondo, wrestling,  watching his grandkids, family, coffee with the boys, Schnack-N-Decker Lumber Company, many years of firefighting and working for the Forest Service. He loved country music and Western movies (where he was a savant  in knowing every actor\u2019s and actress\u2019 life stories). He <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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\/77010"}],"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=77010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77252,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77010\/revisions\/77252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77010"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=77010"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=77010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}