Goodbye, Friend: Tim Shook

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• Tim was an interesting soul. A little “outside the curve”, but that developed his extreme creativity. He was really smart but also really quirky, not a bad combination.

• Tim was a past employee. I hired him at KEZX in 1976 to be an on-air voice. He was 18, inexperienced and often mispronounced words. Had a decent set of pipes.

  He was coachable. Rarely repeated the same error.

  We went to see Star Wars with my wife when it came out, he became a big fan and his work nickname became Shookie the Wookie.

  I left broadcasting a couple if years later and hired him at a scuba company where I did the marcomm work. His job was to make wetsuit and other equipment. That did work out.

  In 2017 I was in Seattle on a trip back from Blaine to ny Portland home and stopped at the Northgate McDonald's to get a snack, wow...there he was. Hadn't really changed in nearly 25 years.

  Oh well. Can't say I'll miss him, but that's from an employers viewpoint.

• Tim Shook was a sweetheart. I've been wondering for months why he had gone silent -- and fearing the worst -- now I see confirmation of the news I was dreading. Whether his death was caused by the coronavirus or diabetic complications, he has fought hard in his struggle just to survive these past several years going through an extended period of homelessness and the toll it took on his health. Thank God that his loyal, longtime friend Herb Schoenfeld stepped up and helped Tim get a roof over his head. But it breaks my heart that Tim's life has been cut short. We worked together at KTAC AM and KBRD FM in Tacoma and have remained friends through the years with some cherished memories of late night radio shows from the Tacoma Mall Office Building where the radio stations' studios were located. I'll never forget Tim...

• He had diabetes. He lost his foot about three years back.

  • Oh, I wondered. That would put him in a high risk group, along with age over 60.

• What a nice guy Tim was. Often sent friendly greetings on holidays and reminisced about the good old days on KTNT.

• Yes....when I first saw the obit there was a banner link over it for covid info. So that was my initial impression, but decided cause of death was uncertain. I had been told by some of his friends that he had some health problems...no clue what they were.

• It has come to my attention that the P.I. listed his death as unknown. The person who told me that may have misunderstood the article. Never the less, I sure would like to know what caused his death?

• Ed...I wondered about that due to timing.

• I just received a report that it was covid 19.

• So sad to hear, meet him in High School at KNHC/C89.5 Radio, he was a great guy and a great on Air Personality knew back then he'd go places, Rest in Peace My Friend and God Speed.