Judy Love

Judy Love, age 77, of Shelby, North Carolina, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on Friday, April 25, 2025, at Atrium Health of the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte.

Judy was born on Friday, October 3, 1947, in Steele County, Minnesota, to the late Byron and Blanche Munson Nichols. In 1965, Judy graduated from high school in Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, and continued her education at Pillsbury Baptist Bible College, where she graduated in 1969. Her Christian faith was evident in her service to the Lord and to numerous churches. Judy served as a Pastor’s wife for forty-four years in five different churches. During that time, she worked to establish four Christian schools, taught Sunday school, offered counseling, served in ladies’ ministries, music ministry and worked as the church bookkeeper. In recent years, she was an English Instructor at Ambassador Baptist College in Lattimore, North Carolina. Judy enjoyed gardening and sewing in her spare time.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Tonya Love; and a sister, Janet Hansen.

Left to cherish the memories of Judy’s life are her beloved husband of fifty-five years, Dr. Bruce Love; daughter, Victoria Love-Pfau (Steve); sons, Chad Love (Lisa) and Rodney Love (Angela); grandchildren, Elizabeth Weston, Alisha Pfau, Laura Pfau, Zachariah Pfau, Jessica Love, Andrew Love, Joanna Love, Nathanael Love, Michaela Love and Caleb Love; great-grandchildren, Jay Weston, Luke Weston and Noah Weston; and her sisters, Joyce Fawver, Janelle Thorson, Jolene Enerson and Jean Kolterman.

A service to remember her life and ministry will be held in the Torrey Auditorium at Ambassador Baptist College on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, at 2:00 pm. Dr. Alton Beal, Pastor Jim Davidson and Mr. Matthew Hanke will preside over the service. A funeral service will be conducted on Friday, May 23, 2025, at Bensalem Baptist Church in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, with her son, Pastor Rodney Love officiating. Interment will follow in the Rosedale Memorial Park.

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested memorial donations to Ambassador Baptist College, at 101 Stockton St., Shelby, NC 28150, or P.O. Box 158, Lattimore, NC 28089.

II Corinthians 3:18 “But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.”