Shannon J. Shaw Memorial Fund

Education

Shannon was a loving father and husband who died from malignant melanoma on 08/31/09. He was the supervising petroleum engineer for the Bureau of Land Management in Santa Fe with oversight responsibilities in other states. As brilliant, sophisticated, and good a man as he was, he refused to listen to his wife or mother to have a doctor examine a nasty mole on his hip. Several years after he finally saw a dermatologist who diagnosed stage IV melanoma. He told his children “listen to your mom” while battling the cancer with surgery, radiation, and chemo for about a year before he died.