Rosalie Love

She was born October 13, 1913 in Norphlet to Rev. Carl Lee Stocks and Ora May Hayes Stocks. Mrs. Love was a graduate of Norphlet High School and Southern State College (now Southern Arkansas University) at Magnolia. She taught piano at Norphlet; kindergarten at First Baptist Church, El Dorado; and elementary grades at Union and Norphlet. She was a member of First Baptist Church Norphlet for more than sixty years. She served as Woman’s Missionary Union president; Training Union President; and, for fifty-six years, as church pianist. She was for many years Older Preschool Department Director in Training Union and had been Older Preschool Department (SS) 1949. She was former State approved preschool worker for the Training Union Department of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. She frequently taught four and five year old children during summer sessions at the Southern Baptist Convention Centers at Ridgecrest, North Carolina and Glorieta, New Mexico. For thirty-four years she wrote Older Preschool curriculum materials for the Baptist Sunday School Board. She was a poet and a freelance writer of children’s stories and short stories. She was a member of National League of American Pen Women in which she served as Branch president, secretary, chairman of various committees, and photographer. She held numerous offices-including that of president in Delta Kappa Gamma, an International Organization of Women Educators. Other organizations to which she belonged were Poets Roundtable of Arkansas and Retired Teachers Associations-National, State, and County. She was a graduate of Famous Writers School. She was a contributor to Vignettes of Louisiana Leaders and Louisiana Leaders, both produced by writers and artists of National League of American Pen Women of Louisiana. She was also one of the six contributing authors of the Kindergarten Resource Book, published by Broadman Press. She is listed in The Writers Directory and Two Thousand Women of Achievement.

Preceded in death by her parents, husband, Fred Emery Love; two sons, David Edward Love & Joe Fred Love; a brother, J.T. Stocks; and three sisters, Ethel Huckabay and Betty Boynton & Maye Stoll.

Survivors include one daughter, Gerry Beth Morris Love of London, England; one nephew, Mike Stoll of Oak Grove, LA and three nieces, Sharon Baird of Monroe, LA, Mary Langley of Smackover & Linda Shelton of El Dorado.

Funeral services will be held 10:00 a.m. Friday, July 15, 2011 at First Baptist Church of Norphlet with Rev. Lawrence Harrison officiating. Burial will follow at Arlington Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Young’s Funeral Directors.

Visitation will be held 6:00-8:00 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.