{"id":199145,"date":"2026-02-16T10:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199145"},"modified":"2026-02-16T10:26:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:26:42","slug":"daniel-howard-castle-1953-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=199145","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Howard Castle 1953 \u2013 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angels Camp, CA..Daniel Howard Castle March 6, 1953 \u2013 February 9, 2026. Daniel Howard Castle, 72, passed away peacefully at home in Nine Mile Falls, WA, on February 9, 2026. A Master Mechanic and Alaska Local 302 member, Dan was a fixture at Alaska Raceway Park.<\/p>\n

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While he lived life at “full throttle” on the dragstrip, he was a deeply devoted husband and a loving, gentle father at home. He is survived by his beloved wife, Georgeanne; children Heather, Christopher, and Ashley; brother James; and four grandchildren Olivia, Avery, Daniel and Peyton. He was preceded in death by his brother, Guy, and his parents, Howard and Alberta Castle of Angels Camp.<\/p>\n

This summer, Dan will take a final run by spreading some of his ashes at the Alaska Raceway Park before being laid to rest in his birthplace of Angels Camp, CA.<\/p>\n

In lieu of flowers, cards and condolences may be sent to the Castle Family: 6261 Jenna Drive, Nine Mile Falls, WA 99026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Angels Camp, CA..Daniel Howard Castle March 6, 1953 \u2013 February 9, 2026. Daniel Howard Castle, 72, passed away peacefully at home in Nine Mile Falls, WA, on February 9, 2026. A Master Mechanic and Alaska Local 302 member, Dan was a fixture at Alaska Raceway Park. While he lived life at “full throttle” on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angels-camp","category-featured","category-news","category-obituaries","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1000009524.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199150,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199145\/revisions\/199150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}