FUNERAL SERVICE: 3:00 P.M. Tuesday, July 20, 2010, at Comanche Funeral Home Chapel. BURIAL: Cox Cemetery in Comanche County. Geneva Strickland, age 93, passed away on Monday, July 19, 2010. Geneva was born on April 29, 1917 at Crews, Texas to Marvin and Sarah Elizabeth (Hurt) Payne. She is survived by her son, Gerald and his wife Margaret Hilley of Conroe, Texas; her stepson, George and his wife Hortez Strickland of Fort Worth, Texas; and her stepdaughter, Dorothy McNutt of San Angelo, Texas. Two grandsons and one granddaughter; five great-granddaughters and one great-grandson; two great-great-grandsons and two great-great-granddaughters; six step-grand-children and step-great-grandchildren; several step-great-great-grandchildren; six nieces, one nephew and several cousins. She was preceded in death by her husband, George A. Strickland; parents, Marvin and Sarah Elizabeth Payne; four sisters, Jewel, Margaret, Golda, and Treva; two brothers; Chester Payne and Ollie Payne; one niece, Patricia Dee Sisk; step-daughter, Olene Hicks of San Angelo, Texas, and one grandson of Fort Worth, Texas.