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SHUTLER,
Richard
Jr.
(December 8, 1921-June 28, 2007)
Professor Emeritus, Simon Fraser University
Died peacefully on the evening of June 28th in the arms of his
wife Jamie at Saint Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, after having had
a stroke the same morning. Richard is survived by his second
wife Jamie
EVRARD, his first wife Mary Elizabeth 'Betty'
SHUTLER
with whom he had three children, sons John Hall and Richard Burnett,
granddaughter Tessa Marie
HOPLIN
(James,) and sister Muriel Ericson
(Roger) and predeceased by his daughter Kathryn
ALLICE. A happy
man who deeply loved and was loved by his family and Friends,
Richard had a generous, collegial temperament and wide ranging
interests in the field of archaeology and way beyond. Having
spent over fifty years in the field, Richard seems to have lived
many lives. Born in 1921 in Longmont, Colorado, he attended Salinas
Jr. College, then inspired by the exploits of the famous paleontologist
Roy Chapman Andrews in the Gobi desert he went on to get an Alberta
and an M.A. in anthropology at U of California, Berkeley followed
by a Ph.D. from U of Arizona in 1961. His education was interrupted
by a stint in the Aleutian Islands as a diesel mechanic with
the U.S. Army during the Second World War. Richard married Mary
Elizabeth HALL in 1951 and soon after they went off to New Caledonia
with E.W. Gifford, a legendary California archaeologist. Shortly
after Richard became intensely interested in a pottery type that
had begun to appear in some of the islands of the Pacific. This
pottery, later dubbed 'Lapita', became perhaps the foremost tool
that archeologists use in tracing man's early dispersal into
the Pacific. Richard also did extensive archeological work in
the American Great Basin, Hawaii, the Philippines where he married
his second wife
Jamie
EVRARD, an artist whom he had met in Iowa
in 1979, Vanuatu, the Gilbert Islands, Tubuai, Fefan Island,
Truk, Fiji, China and most recently, Tonga. In 2005 the French
Government feted Richard in Noumea, New Caledonia on the occasion
of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of Lapita pottery on
that island. Two books were produced in his honor and archaeologists
came from around the world to give papers in celebration of Richard's
long career in Pacific archaeology. Richard maintained an office
at Simon Fraser University until he died. Richard had many interests
outside of archeology and especially enjoyed travelling to Italy
with Jamie, buying and restoring a villa there, and collecting
fresh figs. Richard lovvd expeditions, anything yellow, the opera,
the novels of Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham, mango pudding,
the paintings of Camille Pissarro and Picasso's huge steel sculptures,
secret pockets in travel clothing, the Oakland Raiders, Beethoven's
symphonies, chocolate milk shakes, Tiger Woods, and his gigantic
and devoted cat Boodles. A memorial service will be held at 4: 30 p.m.
on Thursday, September 20th at Simon Fraser University Harbour
Centre, 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia Gifts
in Richard's memory gratefully received by the Healthy Heart
Program at Vancouver General Hospital and University of British
Columbia Hospital Foundation, 855 W. 12th Ave., Vancouver, British
Columbia V5Z 1M9. Walkey and Company Funeral Directors, 604-738-0006.
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