Billie Shook

Billie Ann Groover Byrd Hughes Shook, 70, Ringgold, passed away Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at her residence.  

She was a radiological technologist and radiation therapist for more than 35 years. Billie opened up the first Northwest Georgia Radiation Therapy Department at Hamilton Medical Center in Dalton in 1975. Billie was an active member of Dogwood Baptist Church. She also attended Hickory Grove Baptist Church.  

Survivors are a daughter, Lora Lynn Shook Carrell, Ringgold; granddaughters, Hannah Alexis Pruitt and Rebekah Lynn Carrell;  brothers, Frank Byrd Jr., Rossville, Sammy Byrd, Atlanta; sisters, Cheryl Erwin, Ringgold, Sherry Maddox, Chattanooga, Adrienne Dunn, Ringgold, and many nieces, nephews, and friends.

Services will be 1 p.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Roy Gentry officiating.  Interment will be in Forest Hills Cemetery.

Visit  www.heritagefh.com to share words of comfort with the family.

Memorial contributions may be made to Dogwood Bible Camp, 5296 Dogwood Valley Road, Tunnel Hill, GA 30755.

The family will receive friends Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Heritage Funeral Home and Crematory, Battlefield Parkway.