Robert P. Pan Wa Tak Shuckahosee

MAYETTA, Kan. — Robert P. Pan Wa Tak Shuckahosee, 47, of Mayetta, died Sunday, March 6, 2005 at Stormont Vail Regional Health Center in Topeka from injuries sustained in a vehicle accident on Friday.

He was born Sept. 6, 1957, in Topeka, the son of Isaac Shuckahosee, Jr. and Ruby Wahbnum Shuckahosee. He attended Royal Valley Schools and graduated from Sequoiah High School in Tahlequah, Okla. He took classes at Highland Community College and Washburn University and received his Certified Nurses Aide certificate in 1990.

Robert worked for the Topeka Independent Resource Center until 1999 and later for the American Indian Disability Technical Assistance Center at the University of Montana until 2002. He was currently in charge of the Independent Living Center for the Prairie Band Potawatomi.

He was a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation and the Drum Religion. He served on the National Council on Independent Living, was a consultant for the National Council on Disabilities, served on the board of the Prairie Band Boys & Girls Club, and was a member of the parent committee of the Johnson O'Malley program. In 1997 he received the Martin Luther King "Living the Dream" Humanitarian Award.

Robert married to former Mission Valley resident LaDonna G. Kirkaldie Fowler in 2000. She survives.

Other survivors include his parents, two sons, Sos-ti Witch-e-wah, in Michigan, and Kyle Fowler, Nespelem, Wash.; two daughters, Ahshani Witch-e-wah, Topeka, and Andrea "Mouse" Fowler-Shuckahosee, Mayetta; six brothers and six sisters. He was preceded in death by three brothers.

Drum services were held March 8 on the dance ground west of Mayetta. Burial was March 9 in the Mitchell Cemetery. Memorials are suggested to the Robert P. Shuckahosee memorial Fund, c/o the Chapel Oaks Funeral Home, 524 Pennsylvania, Topeka, KS 66436.