Billie Jane Price's Obituary
Billie Jane Price, age 63 of Dallas Georgia passed away on Thursday, June 5, 2025. Billie was born on March 9, 1962, at Crawford Long Hospital in Atlanta. She grew up in East Point, the youngest of seven children. She attended Jere A Wells Elementary in the Colonial Hills neighborhood and graduated from Russell High School in 1980. Billie excelled in academic and business classes. In her junior year, she was nominated for the Governor’s Honors Program in English. In her senior year, she was President of the Senior Beta Club, President of FBLA, and Vice President of the Student Council. She was a WSB young American winner and was the winner of the AJC Journal Cup. Billie was valedictorian for the 1980 graduating class of Russell High School.
1982 was a sad year for the Price family. We lost a beloved sister, Kathy. She was just shy of her twenty-seventh birthday when she passed. She left behind a husband and a nine month old baby boy, Nicholas. Billie loved all her nieces and nephews, but devoted a lot of time with Nicholas as he was growing up.
Billie loved her family, including eight nieces and nephews, 19 great nieces and nephews and at last count three great great nephews and one great great niece. Even though Billie did not have children of her own, she really enjoyed spending time and spoiling these children. She would have them over to her house to have sleepovers and play dress up, go swimming, or go to Build a Bear. She tried to attend all of their birthday parties and absolutely loved buying them gifts. She even took one of the great nieces who was also her goddaughter to a Hannah Montana concert.
After her dad passed in 1988, she and her mom remained in East Point for a few years, but then moved to Powder Springs, Georgia. Billie was a Christian and loved the Lord and loved reading the Bible. She was raised going to church. When she moved to Powder Springs, she and her mom began attending Trinity Baptist Church.
Billie and her mom were not only mother and daughter, they were best friends. They took many trips together. One trip was to Branson, Missouri, another to Colonial Williamsburg, and several to Kentucky and Tennessee, where her mom was raised. They also enjoyed a trip to Hilton Head, SC. She took Nicholas and another nephew, Matt, along on that trip.
Billie took a few college classes, but I think working in the business world was her true love. She worked for Graybar Electric and dedicated 34 years to them. She primarily worked in their Norcross office. She loved her Graybar family and held several positions over the years. She worked in sales for several years, where she won various prizes, including a Caribbean cruise. Billie also spent several years traveling and doing training sessions for employees at Graybars branches all over the southeast. Other titles she held over the years were customer service supervisor, district pricing specialist, and Branch Administrator. She stepped down from her highest ranking at Graybar to have more time to spend with her mother whose health was declining and included the onset of dementia. Billie continued to work Graybar until she retired in 2018.
Besides her family, Billie loved her job, her little Shih Tzu, Oliver, singing, cooking, decorating and fashion. She loved to buy clothes and jewelry. She was the queen of online shopping. She also loved all types of music, but especially Elvis Presley.
Billie was preceded in death by her parents, William and Ina Price, sisters, Barbara Joanne Anderson, and Kathy Higgins, and brothers, William P. Price, Jr. and Larry Thomas Price.
Billie is survived by her sisters, Linda Lathren of Canon, Georgia and Susan Plowden of Power Springs, Georgia and many nieces and nephews.
Per Billie’s wishes, she will be cremated. There will be no viewing or service. The family will have a private burial of her ashes at a later date.
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