A graduate of Park View High School in South Hill, Virginia, Shirley later attended Radford College, in Radford, Virginia. During her lifetime, she traveled to Taipai, Taiwan and later worked in the NC State Department of Revenue and in the Research Triangle Park as a materials buyer for Bristol Meyers Squibb. She was a former member of Millbrook Baptist Church.
Shirley is survived by two children; Dawn Jonette House of Benton, Kansas; Scott Michael of Wichita, Kansas; a sister, Edna Linda Shearin of Chesapeake, Va and a brother; Wayne Alexander Allgood of Virginia Beach, Virginia, four grandchildren and one great grandchild, and several nieces and a nephew.
She was predeceased by her parents: Alexander Raney Allgood and Edna Glenn Dunn Allgood of Boydton VA, and by her brother, Eugene Randolf Allgood of Emporia, Va.
Services provided by Brown-Wynne, 300 Saint Mary's Street, Raleigh.