Loudon C. Blueshield

BILLLINGS - Loudon C. Blueshield, 65, a homemaker, died Saturday, January 20 at a Billings hospital of natural causes.

Wake services were held 7:00 P.M., Tuesday, January 23, at the Chief Nosey Community Center in Lodge Pole. Funeral services were at 11:00 A.M., Wednesday at the Chief Nosey Community Center. Burial was in the Lodge Pole Cemetery. Condolences for the family may be left at http://www.kirkwoodfuneralhome.com.

Loudon Blueshield was born at Fort Belknap, MT on August 14, 1952 to Irvin Thomas Blueshield and Camilla Gone.

Loudon attended Wahpeton Indian school in North Dakota, Flandreau high school in South Dakota and she resided in Albuquerque, New Mexico, continuing her education in optometry at Southwestern Indian Poly Tech collage.

She then moved to California where her occupation was an optometrist aide and carpenter. She also resided in Lawndale, Long Beach, Lancaster and Torres Martinez Reservation. In California.

Lou loved cooking/barbequing, camping in the desert, lounging on the beach, motorcycles, everything 'Elvis", but most of all being with her family and friends. Lou had an infectious laugh and gave everyone a 'Nickname" she enjoyed all her special friends in Montana and California.

Lou leaves behind her children Tamera Lincoln, Robert "Bobby" Cavanaugh (deceased), London "birdie" Cavanaugh, Louis Allen Cavanaugh, Cecilia Ibarra along with her adopted children: Kimberlee Cavanaugh, Francise Cavanaugh and Thomas Broken-Rope. Loudon was well loved by Robert Allen Neff III, Robert Cavanaugh, Manuel Ibarra and Amos First-Raised.

Loudon's siblings are Alberta Fox, Tony Not-Afraid, Rose Sullivan, Francine Estell, Donna "Meech" Markham, Tammy and Kim Sleeping Bear, Craig, Greg and William Talks different. Her closest friends are Sugie Main, Joyce Sullivan, Stanford Rides the Horse, Stanna PlainBull, Vicky Holds the Enemy.

Survivors: Aunts Sophie and Rose Marie Wahoben and Emma Mosquito also the StarChief family all of the Mosquito Reserve, Canada.. Her Grandkids are Camilla, Melissa, Jonathan, Pamela, Mariah, Smith, Landon and Malia Longknife, Clarice Cavanaugh and Evey Gendro, Naima Camilla and Ariah Marie Cavanaugh, Harley Suzie, Louis Jr., Raiden and Warren Cavanaugh, Phalen, Kalen, Daxson and Everley Ibarra-Roundstone. Great-grandson: Jonathan Argueta.

We lay her to rest along with her beloved, Father: Irvin Blueshield; Mother: Camilla Gone; Son: Robert "Bobby" Cavanaugh; Brother: Thomas Blueshield; Neice: Tanya Teller.