Barbara Shook

Barbara Ingalls Shook (born c. 1939 - died September 26, 2008) was the granddaughter of Robert Ingalls, Sr and a noted philanthropist, having expanded the Ingalls Foundation into the Barbara Ingalls Shook Foundation.

She married Robert Shook and had two daughters. Mrs Shook was diagnosed with bone cancer in the late 1960s. She underwent radical cancer surgery in 1969 to remove a leg and part of her pelvis. She wore a prosthetic leg for the rest of her life, but remained active. She enjoyed cycling and fishing as well as one-legged skiing near her second home in Aspen. She was appointed by former president Ronald Reagan to sit on the National Cancer Advisory Board.

Shook's foundation supported the Alabama Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Big Oak Ranch, the Jimmie Hale Mission, St Vincent's Birmingham, Baptist Medical Center Montclair, UAB Hospital and several local churches and religious organization.

Shook died in September 2008 and was buried at Elmwood Cemetery.

References

• Velasco, Anne (September 28, 2008) "Birmingham philanthropist Barbara Ingalls Shook dies at 69." Birmingham News