{"id":78938,"date":"2024-04-11T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T11:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2024\/04\/11\/willis-mcclammy\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:40:44","modified_gmt":"2027-03-02T15:40:44","slug":"willis-mcclammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2024\/04\/11\/willis-mcclammy\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Willis McClammy"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t Willis E. McClammy, 64, of Poplar died April 5, 2024, in Billings.<br \/>\n\t  He was born in Poplar on Nov. 7, 1959.<br \/>\n\t  He enlisted in the Army in November of 1976, shortly  after turning 17 years old. He attended Basic Training at Fort Dix, N.J., then went to Advanced Individual Training  at Fort Belvoir, Va., 13 miles from Washington, D.C. He was then stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, where he was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 50th Infantry, 2nd Armored Division. My Battalion went to Germany in 198 on Operation  Feforger. After returning to the United States, he was discharged in December 1979 with a rank of Private First Class.<br \/>\n\t  When he got back from the Army, he went to work in the oilfield with his step-father, E.J. \u201cThe Hand\u201d Reddoor. He worked for 15 different drilling  companies for the next 30 years, usually as a motorman.  He was 55 the last time he roughnecked. During this time, he roughnecked in the winter and went firefighting in the summer. He worked 25 seasons as a wildland firefighter  for the Bureau of Indian  Affairs. During this time, he was dispatched across the United States.<br \/>\n\t  In March 2014, he found himself homeless. He moved into the Fort Peck Warriors Center in Poplar, where he got my GED and went to work fencing for the Fort Peck Tribes Range program. He transferred to the Tribes\u2019 IRR Program as a janitor\/ maintenance employee for six years until being diagnosed  with Stage 4 cancer. After that, it was a lot of TV and going to church when he felt okay.<br \/>\n\t  He had eight children: Kyle and Reanna in Poplar, Jubal, Jettison and Adelle from Paula  Owens in Poplar, John D in Fort Kipp, and two step-children,  Chance and Cyrenna Standing in Wolf Point.<br \/>\n\t  Daughters, Reanna and Adelle; and two brothers, Resse Reddoor and George McClammy, preceded him in death.<br \/>\n\t  He is survived by his wife, Brenda (Dionne) McClammy; sisters, Faith O\u2019Connor, Haven  Gourneau, Velvet Schneider,  Gaynell McClammy, Delrae  Reddoor and Johnny Lee Bearcub\/Stiffarm; and two brothers, Pat McClammy and Robert \u201cPinner\u201d McClammy.<br \/>\n\t  A graveside service will held at 1 p.m., Saturday, April 13, at the Poplar City Cemetery. <\/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\/78938"}],"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=78938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79159,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78938\/revisions\/79159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78938"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=78938"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=78938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}