September 22, 2023
By Lynn Burkhead
Louise Shockey, the wife of Jim Shockey, mother of Eva and Branlin, and, in some ways, the unseen matriarch of the hunting world’s first family, lost a brave battle with cancer and passed away on Sept. 21, 2023.
Married to Jim on Nov. 30, 1984, Louise was in some ways what Jim Shockey was not. If her husband climbed the world’s tallest mountain peaks with a gun, bow, or muzzleloader in his hand and television cameras recording every step of the adventurous story for the world to see, Louise was content to stay back in the shadows at home in British Columbia. And there, the former actress and dancer was simply mom to the couple’s two children and ‘Nana...
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