The family requests no flowers for the celebration of life, which will be held on Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 2:00 pm at the Western Oaks Christian Church at 8100 NW 23rd Oklahoma City, OK. In lieu of flowers, Dr. Shook would be honored by gifts to Manos Juntas clinic at https://givebutter.com/gGHUnt or by mail to Manos Juntas Clinic, 1145 West Interstate 240 Service Road Bldg D, Ste D, Oklahoma City, OK, 73139.
Dr. Marcus Boyd Shook, 89, died on December 23, 2022, at SSM/St Anthony Hospital, one of the places he spent his life providing medical care.
Born on a farm in Cogar, Oklahoma in March 1933, he dedicated his life to serving people through medicine. He saw patients up through his final week at Manos Juntas Free Clinic, which he founded in 1995. Dr. Shook practiced internal medicine, hematology, and oncology for several decades in Oklahoma City and had been Chief of Ambulatory Care at Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He was a vociferous advocate for accessible universal medical care and was particularly proud of mentoring young healthcare workers at Manos Juntas, at the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, and on care trips to Nicaragua, telling them that in order to understand people they should read more poetry. He was a veteran, serving in the Navy. Among his many awards and honors are the Leonard Tow Award for Humanism in Medicine and a Human Rights Award from the Oklahoma Human Rights Commission; he was a Master of the American College of Physicians and had been president of the American Society of Internal Medicine, Oklahoma Foundation for Peer Review, and the Oklahoma County Medical Society.
He is survived by his wife Sue, daughters Liz, Kathy, Judy, and Jen, grandchildren Jesse, Nora, Bailey, Nate, and Bridget, great-grandchildren Tyler, Jessalin, Sully, Hadley, Harper, and Hudson, and their families. He is also survived by sister Ada and predeceased by siblings Kenton, Louise, Anne, Thad, Lowell, Landis, and Amy, and parents Sam and Ina Shook.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.billmerrittfuneralservice.com for the Shook family.
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