Lois C Shook

Char graduated from Loveland High School and got her BS in Psychology from Colorado University. She worked for a short time as a employment counselor but soon settled down to life as a wife and mother in Boulder, Colorado. Her husband's career required a move to Satellite Beach, Florida in 1966. Her life-long appreciation for the beauty of nature was rooted in the snow-topped peaks of the Rockies but she grew to love the beach life: delighting in the pelican's dive, a dolphin's leap, and in collecting shells and sea glass -- she became a "tropical flower."

As her children grew up, she engaged in her passion for southwestern Native American jewelry which progressed to serious study in precious gems and diamonds. Her employer at Weshe's Jewelers encouraged her to complete the rigorous American Gemological Society study courses and gain certification as a diamond and gem appraiser. She found love and companionship in an old friend and neighbor, Arvid Shook, they married in 1989 and traveled the country.

Char was preceded in death by her mother, father, and her sisters: Arleen, Maxine, and Doris. She is survived by her husband, Arvid, children: Greg Fischer and Gayle Plaia, her grandchildren: Nichole Beckert, Matthew Plaia, Ashley Pustay, Megan Howard, Randi Fischer, her great grandchildren: Kaden Olivi, and Laynee Pustay, and Arvid's children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.