Dec. 4, 1924 – Feb. 3, 2016

FERRIDAY — Services for Ann Jackson Love, 91, of Ferriday, who died Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, in Ferriday, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Young’s Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Truman Staggs officiating.

Burial will follow at Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Young’s Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 11 a.m. until service time Saturday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Jackson was born Dec. 4, 1924, one of three sisters in Dyer, Tenn., the daughter of John and Louella Jackson.

She graduated from Dyer High School, Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., and Louisiana State University, where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority. While at LSU, Mary Ann was chosen homecoming queen, “LSU Beauty,” and queen of the LSU Department of Agriculture, from which she graduated with a degree in home economics.

She met her future husband, Capt. Lloyd F. Love, a U.S. Air Force pilot who was home from the war, on a blind date to a LSU football game. Lloyd decided to go back to LSU and attend law school, instead of pursuing a career in the Air Force. They never missed another LSU football game for more than 50 years. Ann “raised” their four children before beginning her career as a social worker with the Louisiana Department of Social Services.

Mrs. Love was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of 59 years, Lloyd; two sisters, Emily Combs and Dorothy Roberts; and one son-in-law, Richard Mayo.

Survivors include four children, Phyllis Mayo of Baton Rouge, Lou Love and companion, Ann Davey, of Bridgeport, W. Va., Julie Cole and husband, Bernard, of Ferriday, and Jim Love and companion, Mary Cay Guidry, of Lafayette, La.; four grandchildren, Jake Christopher Mayo and wife, Emily, of Baton Rouge, Erick Mayo of New Orleans, Emily Cole Dawkins and husband, Stephen, of Ferriday and Katie Love Cole of New York City; and four great-grandchildren, Hill and Molly Mayo, Emily and Olivia Dawkins.

Special thanks to her wonderful caregivers and friends Mary Carter and Beatrice Brown, and the kindness and care given at Camelot and Heritage Manor.

Pallbearers will be Lou Love, Jim Love, Jake Mayo, Erik Mayo, Bernard Cole and Stephen Dawkins.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to the LSU Alumni Association, Sevier Memorial Methodist Church or to a charity of choice.