Ruth Elizabeth Love

Kansas City, Mo. — No public services are planned for Ruth Elizabeth Love, 97, Kansas City, Mo.Mrs. Love died Monday, Nov. 24, 2008, in Kansas City, Mo.She was born May 28, 1911, in Excelsior Springs, Mo., the daughter of Roland Albert and Agnes Potter. She attended William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo.Mrs. Love was a newspaper reporter and worked for the Journal-World for 12 years beginning in the 1940s in the news department. She also worked as news editor of several Kansas newspapers, including the Atchison Globe, Clay Center Dispatch and the Abilene Reflector-Chronicle. Some of her articles appear in the Library of Congress, and she was a member of the Kansas Press Association.She married Robert Edward Love. He died in 1963.Survivors include a son, Robert and wife, Karol, Kansas City, Mo.; four grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren.Heartland Cremation and Burial Society is handling arrangements.