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Dr Melvin Donald "Don" Shockey

22 Jul 1935 – unknown

Birth	22 Jul 1935
Death	unknown
Cemetery	Mountain Valley Cemetery Edgewood , Santa Fe County , New Mexico , USA
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/245006755

Bio

Dr Melvin Donald "Don" Shockey, O.D., had been an Ark researcher since 1984. He was instrumental in the first and only "ark-a-thon" in June 1986, and authored the book, The Painful Mountain, featuring the alleged eyewitness Ed Davis. He also discovered the Satellite Remote Sensing expert George Stephen III. Dr. Don Shockey, an optomologist who received his doctorate from Pacific University, also received a degree in Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. He participated in a number of archaeological excavations including the 1955 Lucy Site excavation of Sandia Man, "pit-house" dwellings in northern New Mexico, the Stone Age Mexican Tarahumara Indians, a Roman amphitheater in Albania, Qumran in Israel, the temple mount in Jerusalem and a mastodon site. Shockey was also the founder of the Governor Bent Museum in Taos, New Mexico.

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Family

Parents

• Melvin Oliver Shockey 1902–1977
• Elsie Mae Tillery Shockey 1903–1997

Spouse

• Carita Williams Shockey 1937–1957

Siblings

• Mary Louise Shockey 1926–1926
• Patricia Shockey 1934–1934

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