Volunteer Spotlight

Meet our Volunteers

Jenny McNair

Jenny McNair is an invaluable member of the Phoebe Family as a volunteer with Volunteer Services. She has been a friendly face to visitors, patients and employees in the Carlton Breast Health Center (Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital), Gift Shop, Radiation/Oncology and the Volunteer Services Office. She has also dedicated her time to serving her Phoebe volunteer family by being on the Volunteer Advisory Board....  Read more...

Debbie Blanton

Life has come full circle for Debbie Blanton. She worked at Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in 1986 as the Wellness Coordinator for Total Life Center where she coordinated the Corporate Challenge with community businesses and industries to promote fitness, competition, and fellowship. Now she’s working at Phoebe as a volunteer....  Read more...

Bobby Ridley 

Often, when people visit the hospital, it’s a difficult time.  They may not feel much like smiling.  But when Phoebe visitors come across Walker “Bobby” Ridley as they enter our main hospital, their face will almost surely light up....  Read more...

Heidi Ellion

Heidi Ellion may have been born and raised in New England, but southern hospitality has become dear to her heart.  She loves the politeness and charm of the south, and she certainly embodies those characteristics in her service at Phoebe....  Read more...

Shirley Phelps

Shirley Phelps and her family endured an unimaginable tragedy in July 2010 when her husband of 45 years was shot during a robbery at P&P Garden and Hardware, the business he operated in Albany since 1977. Walter Phelps spent a month at Phoebe before passing away from his injuries. “Oh, they cried with us,” Shirley said of the Phoebe staff who took care of her husband....  Read more...

Bill Worrell

Bill Worrell was born in a rural Alabama farmhouse, the son of a sharecropper. When it was time for Bill to come into this world, his father hitched his horses to a wagon and rode into town to fetch the doctor who ended up sleeping at the Worrell home until Bill arrived in the middle of the night. “The doctor said, ‘Everybody looks fine. What time is breakfast? Then he went back to sleep,” Bill said...  Read more...

Harold Harden

Long before the sun comes up and hours before the first paid employee arrives at Phoebe Surgicare, volunteer Harold Harden is there getting the area ready for the day. “I wake up at home, get up, walk the dog, drink some coffee and come to work,” Harold said. But his actual routine is much more impressive than that humble description....  Read more...

Mary Bullion

Mary Bullion’s compassionate spirit and gentle touch have helped calm countless patients at Phoebe over the last 23 years.  She began volunteering in our Emergency Center in 1994, not long after she moved to Albany when her husband Jim became rector at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, and she has been a fixture in the EC since. The EC is not always an easy place to volunteer...  Read more...

Sue Whitaker

Sue Whitaker has seen a lot of things change in healthcare in 37 years as a hospital volunteer, but one thing that hasn’t changed is her desire to brighten the day of folks who may be going through a tough time. As a volunteer at the information desk at Phoebe North, Sue is often the first person a visitor or a patient sees at the hospital. She is determined to make a great first impression...  Read more...

Dorothy Goodwin

Dorothy Goodwin’s caring hands are rarely still. They stay busy making things that bring comfort to others. Dorothy spends much of her free time at home sewing items for Phoebe patients and their families. If someone dies at hospice or in the hospital, family members can give clothing items from their loved one to Dorothy. She turns those clothes into beautiful teddy bears...  Read more...

Jennifer Moree

Jennifer Moree is a runner. She’s completed an astounding 46 marathons all over the country, all since her youngest child finished high school. When she’s not training for her next race, you may find her running around Phoebe’s Surgical Family Waiting (SFW) area, putting the same persistence and commitment it takes to be a marathoner to use to serve our patients and their families...  Read more...