Geneva Holiman passed away peacefully at the age of 94 on Friday, January 26.  She was a life-long resident of Hamilton and Bradley counties. She was preceded in death by her husband, Homer Holiman and her son, Bobby Bayne.  She is survived by her elder son, Roy David Bayne of Conifer, CO, also, step children, Ron Holiman of New Hampshire and Cecelia Vincent of Florida.

After raising her family in the Michigan Avenue area of Bradley county she returned to school and earned her GED.  She followed up with a degree in nursing from which she retired.

She grew up in a family of seven children: Betty, Virginia, Gene, LeRoy, Richard, and Harvey Emerling. She was the last surviving member of her family.

She was a long-time member of North River Seventh Day Adventist Church and always talked warmly of her church family.

Visitation will be held at Hamilton Funeral Home Tuesday, January 30, 2024 from 10:00am until funeral service time at 12:00pm. Following the service, she will be interred in Jackson Chapel Cemetery located inside Chester Frost Park in Hamilton County.  There she will join her son, Bobby Bayne, father, Floyd Emerling, uncle, Arthur Emerling and cousin, Martina Emerling beneath the bough of a spreading scaly bark hickory tree.