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Obituary: Louis C. Dubs, III

Louis C. Dubs, III

Louis C. Dubs, III, of Billings, Montana, passed away on Aug. 6, 2024, surrounded by his beloved wife and daughters, after a sudden battle against endocarditis.

Louis was born on Jan. 16, 1954, in Genoa, Nebraska, to Louis “Louie” Dubs, II, and Gertrude “Trudi” Baumgartner Dubs. Like many immigrant midwestern families, Louie and Trudi raised their children on a small farm, filled with corn and cattle. When Louis was about five, Louie and Trudi purchased a cabin up the Boulder River Valley in Montana, igniting a lifelong love of the mountains within Louis.  Louis and his siblings, Christine and Alfred “Fred” Dubs, spent their summers without electricity, subsiding on fish they caught and piles of books from the local Big Timber Library.

From a young age, Louis showed the signs of read more