BOBBIE LOVE

EAST PRAIRIE -- Bobbie Loretta Love of East Prairie died Wednesday, Dec. 9, 1998, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was 65.

She was born May 11, 1933, in Leechville, Ark., daughter of Harold and Zada Barnett Reeves. She married Robert Howard Love in April 1951. He died Sept. 15, 1974.

She was a member of the Full Gospel Church in East Prairie.

She is survived by five sons, Robert Love of East Prairie, Alan Love of Chicago, Ill., Phillip Love of Jackson Tenn., Gordon Love of Blytheville, Ark., Jimmy Love of Scotts Hill, Tenn; six daughters, Peggy Slusher and Sharon Allbritton, both of Jackson, Tenn., Teresa Love and Loretta Love, both of Chicago, Rose Love and Kathleen Atkinson, both of East Prairie; two sisters, Charlene Smiley of Yazoo City, Miss., and Betty Janvier of Linden, N.J.; 24 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, three sisters and a grandson.

Visitation will be after 5 p.m. Saturday a the Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie.

Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at the Shelby Chapel, with Brothers Burl Britt and Mike Johnson officiating.

Burial will be at East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery.