POUGHKEEPSIE, NY – Geneve Baley died peacefully on October 22, 2022 at the Pines of Poughkeepsie Nursing Home, just seven days short of her 99th birthday.

Born on October 29, 1923 in Chicago, IL, Geneve was the daughter of Steve and Marie (Tsalameka) Karras. Geneve had a truly amazing life: musician (piano) and published composer; artist; published poet and political freelance consulting research-analyst. She obtained several degrees in Chicago, Illinois: A.A.S. From Wright Junior College; two Master degrees of Music: one in Composition and one in Piano at the American Conservatory of Music. After obtaining these degrees, she studied two years at the Sorbonne, with Mlle. Nadia Boulanger, teacher of Aaron Copeland, who had awarded her a DO Scholarship to the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, MA, to study with Irving Fine. She was also given an award by WNYC for a radio performance of chamber composition. Other educational endeavors included the Chicago Art Institute in drawing and painting and Hunter College, New York in political science and economics, which later led to 30 years of freelance negotiating/consulting as a research-analyst with the United Nations, and other important government entities/companies. In addition, she published and sold books on various economic theories: US Horizontal Socio-economic Science; A New American Economic System: Excerpts: Deed to the Future; and Over 80 Collected Published Poems that Changed the Map of Europe. Her latest achievement before her passing was an award given by Senator Sue Serino in recognition of her contributions to society and historical achievements in honor of Women's History Month on Thursday, March 31, 2022.

On December 7th, 1951 in Paris, France, Geneve married John Claude Baley (deceased November 12, 1995), Lieutenant graduate of St. Cyr, who fought four years in World War II as a paratrooper and was part of the SAS brigade; and two years in the French Vietnam war. He was born to an Appeals Court Judge and a mother who was a French royal Valois descendant, as well as related to Camila Ilari, the cousin who nursed Napoleon Bonaparte.

Geneve is survived by her daughter Robin Marie Baley Lavery; her grandsons and their wives, John-James Francis Lavery and Patricia Scoons Lavery, and Andrew Richard Lavery and Lara Von Bon Lavery; her great-granddaughter, Hailie Marie Lavery; her sister-in-laws: Comtesse Guillmette deMontabert and family and Evi Karras and family. In addition to her parents and her husband, she was also predeceased by her son-in-law, Kevin Francis Lavery; her siblings, Fr. Nick Karras(Chaplain, US Navy, RET), Basil Karras (wife Evi Karras) and Elaine Main; and her in-laws, ViaComte Jean and Comtesse Chantal de Montjoye, Noel Baley and Bernard Baley.

A graveside service will be held on Friday at 12:00Noon at Pinelawn Memorial Park in Farmingdale, NY with Rev. John Young officiating, where there will be a live-stream video of the service for those who could not come due to distance and other obligations.

Memorial donations will be honored to: Billy Graham Association, The Veterans Association and St. Jude's Children's Hospital.