January 19, 2025, 92, Mount Olive —

Mrs. Geneva Best Strickland, 92, of Tar Heel Drive, Mount Olive, passed away early Sunday morning, January 19, 2025, at Genesis Center in Mount Olive where she was receiving care.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, January 23, at 6:00 p.m. from Tyndall Funeral Home in Mount Olive, with visitation to follow.  Burial will be at Wayne Memorial Park at 1:00 p.m. Friday, January 24.

Mrs. Strickland was preceded in death by her parents, Leon and Ellen Waller Best; a brother, Selby Best and his wife, Shelby Weeks Best; a sister, Doris Vann Pate and her husband, Hugh Pate; a daughter-in-law, Amber Strickland; and two grandsons, Tyler and Kendall Strickland.

She is survived by her three sons, James Clark Strickland and wife, Loretta, George Blake Strickland and wife, Donna, and Leon Scott Strickland and companion, Christy Austin, all of near Dobbersville, Mount Olive; six grandchildren; twelve great-grandchildren; and two grandsons-in-law; and several nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Strickland had been a homemaker and farm wife, and had worked at Mount Olive College for eleven years as an assistant cafeteria manager.  She was a member of Brownings Methodist Church and in recent years, had attended Northeast Original Free Will Baptist Church.