Miriam J. Love, 92, of Virginia Beach, passed away on Friday, Jan. 6, 2017, in Virginia Beach.
Miriam was born in Reading, Pa., on Jan. 13, 1924, to parents Herbert T. and Mary E. Faust. She graduated from Reading High School and earned her R.N. from the Reading Hospital School of Nursing. She married William J. “Bill” Love on Aug. 3, 1946, in Sendai, Japan.
Before marriage, Miriam worked as a second lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps at the 172nd Station Hospital. She was a veteran of World War II and served in the Army Nurse Corps for over a year before she married and lived the life of an Army wife.
After many military moves with her husband Bill, a retired colonel with the Army Corps of Engineers, Miriam and Bill settled in Virginia Beach, where they lived since 1970. Bill served as the general manager of Hampton Roads Sanitation District and led waste water projects for Malcolm Pirnie Engineers, which led the couple to Cairo, Egypt. After 52 years of marriage, Bill passed, and Miriam continued living in Virginia Beach.
Miriam led a remarkable life. She remembered growing up during the Depression, serving in post-war Philippines and Japan, adventures while living in Europe and Africa, a tour of the Soviet Union, sailing in the British Virgin Islands and deep-sea fishing off the Virginia Coast. Miriam was affiliated with the King’s Daughters, Lynnhaven Colony Congregational Church, and the West Point Association of Graduates.
Miriam was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Bruce Faust of Reading, Pa., and her husband William J. “Bill” Love.
She is survived by Patricia Anne Knowlton, and her husband, Dr. Steven Knowlton, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; Mary Ellen “Mimi” Nesbitt, and her husband, Charles J. Nesbitt III, of Alto, N.M.; William M. “Bill” Love of Las Vegas; Dr. Linda J. Love, and her husband, Steven M. Olson, of Virginia Beach; and Stephen Faust, nephew, and his wife, Dolores, of Burnville, Pa. Miriam loved her seven grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be given to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society at https://donate.lls.org/lls/donate. The family wishes to extend their sincere thanks to Donna Claud, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Medi Hospice, Intrepid Hospice and Visiting Angels.
Miriam’s family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Great Neck. Interment will take place with military honors in Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.
