{"id":156048,"date":"2018-10-21T18:24:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T23:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=156048"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T18:27:33","slug":"james-jim-hastings-oct-20-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=156048","title":{"rendered":"James &#8220;Jim&#8221;Curtis  Hastings &#8211; Oct 20, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"node-body\">\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>James Curtis Hastings, age 72, passed away Saturday, October 20th, 2018 in Jamestown, ND.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"node-body\">\n<p>Jim was born on March 23rd, 1946 in Jamestown to Elsie (Kurtz) &amp; Don Hastings. He attended country school &amp; graduated from Jamestown Highschool in 1964. He then enlisted in the U.S. Navy where he was a part of the Construction Battalion (Seabees). He served two tours in the Vietnam War. After the war he had several jobs between MN, FL, &amp; ND. He eventually came home to Jamestown &amp; worked on the railroad for many years for Burlington Northern &amp; Red River Valley &amp; Western. He married Diane (Trapp) on January 24th, 1985. They had two sons, Gregory &amp; Andrew, who were raised on Jim&#8217;s family farmstead.<\/p>\n<p>Jim was an outdoorsman who enjoyed hunting &amp; fishing, especially with his boys. He played several different card games, but his favorites were pinochle &amp; cribbage. You never quite knew what he was up to, especially if his partner in crime, Lloyd Landscoot was involved. He also enjoyed watching football &amp; baseball. Jim considered it a good day when the &#8220;Twinkies&#8221; lost! Recently he was excited for the birth of his first grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>Jim is survived by his wife Diane of Jamestown; sons Gregory (Rachel) Hastings, Jamestown, Andrew Hastings, Jamestown; Siblings Eddie (Marlys) Hastings, Prescott Valley, AZ, David (Sherry) Hastings, Appleton, MN, Jerry (Kathy) Hastings, Jamestown, ND, Donna (Jonathan) Geiger, Grand Forks, ND, Diane Hastings, Jamestown, ND; Sister-in-law (Betty) Hastings, Fargo, ND, &amp; several nieces &amp; nephews.<\/p>\n<p>He was proceeded in death by his parents, siblings Betty (Gordon) Roach, Dickey Hastings, &amp; Gary Hastings.<\/p>\n<p>Memorial Service: 10:30 AM, Friday, October 26, 2018 at St. John&#8217;s Lutheran Church with Pastor Lucas Holsten officiating.<\/p>\n<p>Arrangements are in the care of Eddy Funeral Home<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Curtis Hastings, age 72, passed away Saturday, October 20th, 2018 in Jamestown, ND. Jim was born on March 23rd, 1946 in Jamestown to Elsie (Kurtz) &amp; Don Hastings. He attended country school &amp; graduated from Jamestown Highschool in 1964. He then enlisted in the U.S. Navy where he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156181,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156048\/revisions\/156181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}