Geneva Ayers Obituary

Geneva Bunch Ayers RIDGEVILLE, SC - Mrs. Geneva Bunch Ayers, 80, of the Sandridge Community in Berkeley County, widow of H. Clyde Ayers, entered into eternal rest Wednesday, April 29, 2009 at her home, surrounded by her family. Funeral services will be 3p.m. Saturday at the First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Holly Hill with Rev. Gaius Baker and Rev. Dwight Brazell officiating. Burial will be private. Mrs. Ayers was born on May 20, 1928 in Summerville, a daughter of the late Eddie Braxton Bunch and Susie Matilda Grooms Bunch. She worked at the telephone company as a switchboard operator, cigar factory in Charleston, Manhattan shirt factory, William Heller in Moncks Corner, April's Florist in Goose Creek, Humberts Florist in St. Stephen, Seasonal Industries in Holly Hill; Western Sizzler in St. George, and Derrick's Country Kitchen in Harleyville. She was a member of the First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Holly Hill, and a former church leader of MYF at Spring Hill UMC. She loved the Lord, baking bread, helping people in anyway that she could. She also enjoyed sitting and watching her birds through her dining room window along with her beautiful flowers. She will be sadly missed by her family and all her other children. In addition to her husband of 59 years, she was preceded in death by a sister, Sarah Owens, and brothers, Eddie, Bub, and Bennie Bunch. Surviving are four daughters, Debra Livingston of Edenton, NC, Rhonda (Glenn) Risher of Harleyville, Bonnie (David) Hefner, and Teresa Hollman, both of Sandridge; a sister Susie B. Smith of Summerville; grandchildren, Jim (Jennie) Droze, Jr., Robert (Candice) Risher, Kristy Risher, and Whitley, Hayley, and David Alan Hollman; great-grandchildren, Jenna and Jared Droze, and Ashley and Austin Fulton and Bonnie's dogs. The family will receive friends from 5 to 8 p.m. this Friday at AVINGER FUNERAL HOME in Holly Hill. www.avingerfh.com. Visit our guestbook at www.postandcourier.com/ deaths