Dougherty County GaArchives Obituaries.....Shipley, Sr., Billy Lee ( Bill ) August 9, 2007
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Mathews Funeral Home - Obituaries
Date of Birth: April 4, 1928
Date of Death: August 9, 2007

Billy Lee ( Bill ) Shipley, Sr., 79, of 12 th. Ave., died Thursday August 9, 
2007 at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital will be conducted Monday at 10:00 
a.m.at Byne Memorial Baptist Church. Dr. William H. Sims, III and Rev. Charlie 
Brown will officiate. Interment will follow in Crown Hill Cemetery.

A native of Chattanooga, TN., Mr. Shipley had resided in Albany since 1949. He 
was a retired PBX repairman with Southern Bell, a veteran of the Korean War 
serving in the Air Force, a member of the Telephone Pioneers, The Open Door 
Sunday School Class and Byne Memorial Baptist Church. He was preceded in death 
by a granddaughter, Heather Leann Shipley, his parents, Carl Hamilton Shipley 
and Thula Mae Henderson Shipley, three brothers, Dr. Kenneth Carl Shipley, Sr., 
Herbert Jack Shipley, Sr. and Hubert Gene Shipley, Sr., his father and mother-
in-law, Luther Irving Wiggins and Dollie Palmer Wiggins.

Survivors include his wife of fifty six years, Geraldine ( Gerry ) Wiggins 
Shipley, Albany, GA., three sons, Billy Lee Shipley, Jr. and his wife Sherry, 
Jerry Wayne Shipley, Luther Hamilton ( Luke ) Shipley all of Albany, GA., a 
daughter , Dollie Maedina Shipley Dollar and her husband, Mike, Albany, GA., 
ten grandchildren, William Geoffrey Shipley and his wife Angie, Shannon Wayne 
Shipley, Sgt. Nicholas Scott Shipley and his wife Lauren, Brooklyn Michele 
Dollar, Jami Leeann Shipley, Christy Lynn Shipley, Savannah Morgan Dollar, 
Melissa Smith and her husband Michael, Kelly Draper and her husband Brian, 
Ryann Revell and her husband Mason, four great-grandchildren, Travis Lee 
Shipley, Trever Scott Shipley, Nicholas James Shipley, Connor Reid Smith, 
sister-in-law, Jewel Wiggins Scott and a brother-in-law and his wife, T.H. 
Wiggins, Sr. and Hannah, Pelham, GA.

The family will receive friends Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. at Mathews Funeral Home.

Those desiring may make memorials to the Living The Legacy, c/o Byne Memorial 
Baptist Church, 2832 Ledo Rd., Albany, GA., 31707.                 

       

To sign our online registry or to send condolences to the family, you may visit 
Mathews’ website at www.mathewsfuneralhome.com

 



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