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Bertha Louise Daniels Holmon was born in Memphis, Tennessee to Isabelle and AB Daniels on March 6, 1939.

She was a graduate of Booker T Washington High in Memphis where she was lead Majorette. Bertha would continue her education at Tennessee State University where she received Bachelor of Arts Degree in education. While at TSU she became a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc.

After graduating college, she received her first teaching assignment at Manassas High School. Her next teaching assignment would take her to Hamilton High school where she was a summer swim teacher, an adviser to the female social clubs, coached the girls track team, coached the dance team, and coached the award winning Hamilton High school cheerleading squad. This squad was the first African American cheerleading squad to attend the Ole Miss Cheerleading summer camp and won awards on a consistent basis.

Bertha is responsible for mentoring many young ladies into becoming the women that they are today.

She was proceeded in death by her parents, sisters Hattie Lee Jones and Annie Pearl Hardin and a brother Essie Lee Hodges.

Bertha leaves her children Toni HolmonTurner (Renaldo) and Terrell Holmon ( Arlene); grandchildren Sherica and Tiana Holmon, Renaldo, II and Russell Turner to carry on her legacy of living life to the fullest. She also leaves a host of cousins and hundreds of students whose lives she touched.