Edna Louise Hennigar Love

Rev. Edna Hennigar Love, born December 16, 1937, went to be with the Lord, January 16, 2019 at the age of 81. Service will be conducted Saturday, January 26th at Prattville Memorial Chapel at 1PM. Visitation will be from 11AM – 1PM with a special family time from 10-11AM. Her son, Rev. Robert Zannini of Life Church, Lafayette, Louisiana and Rev. Walter Albritton of St. James United Methodist Church in Montgomery will officiate. She is preceded in death by her husband, Rev. James Love, her parents, Joshua M. Hennigar and Margaret J. Hennigar. She leaves behind her seven beloved children and their spouses until the time when they will one day be reunited in heaven: Robert (Amanda) Zannini of Lafayette, LA John (Cathryn) Zannini of Flagstaff, AZ Sharon (Alan) Gurley of Trussville, AL Ronald (Rebekah) Zannini of Crossville, TN Cheryl (Charles) Platt of Macon, GA Giavanna (George) Griffin of Birmingham, AL Maria (Mark) Smith of Clopton, AL She looks forward to one day being reunited with her many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, her sister, Alice Schultz, and three brothers, Rev. Richard Hennigar, Ronald Hennigar and Edmund Hennigar Rev. Love was ordained a Deacon in the United Methodist Church in 1993. Her ordination as Elder followed in 1996. She served in the AL./W.FL. Conference, as did her husband. She helped initiate the Emmaus Walk in the North AL., the AL./W.FL., and the Georgia Conferences. She served on both the Emmaus Walk Board and the Kairos (prison ministry) Board. She was pleased to serve on several Emmaus Walk, Kairos, Chrysalis, Epiphany, and Journey teams, in Alabama, Kentucky, and South Georgia. Rev. Love received her call to ministry as a young girl at a Billy Graham Crusade in Boston, MA. It was to be many years later before that call was fulfilled. She was a military wife for 17 years, in which she moved extensively from one end of the country to the other. She had been a single mother for seven years at the time she married Rev. James Love in 1978. In response to God's call on her life, she entered college shortly before her 50th birthday. Seven years later she had earned from Troy State University a B.S. in Psychology/Sociology (Summa Cum Laude), and a Master of Science in Counseling. She went on to attain a Master of Divinity from Asbury Seminary in Kentucky, having graduated from all schools with high honors. She was a member of the Gamma Beta Phi Society, the Alpha Sigma Lambda Society, and the International Society of Theta Phi. Rev. Love and her husband moved to a retirement community in Sebring, Florida in 2006. She pursued her ministry through preaching, writing, and sharing the love of Jesus with everyone she met. Although her body gradually succumbed to the ravages of Post-Polio and in later years by cancer, she never lost her desire to grow spiritually and to expand her knowledge. She was frequently heard to say, “I am ready for my new body. The Lord can take me anytime He is ready for me to go home. I'm all packed and ready.” She referred to her home-going time as “Graduation Day.” Her family invites you to come to her "graduation party."

Edna Louise Hennigar Love

December 16, 1937 - January 16, 2019