Elizabeth Love Redmond
September 13, 1926 - February 4, 2025

With heavy hearts, we announce the passing of Elizabeth Love Redmond on February 4, 2025. She was received into heaven at home, surrounded by family.
She was born September 13, 1926 in Kings Creek, SC - the eighth child and sixth daughter born to Robert Jackson and Sallie Pearl Harmon Love. The Love Family would grow to include a total of 13 children: 7 girls and 6 boys. Growing up during the Great Depression, she was no stranger to hardship but her faith in God sustained her through it all. She was raised in an unpainted house on the family farm, where the challenges and adversity the family faced forged a deep bond among her siblings. She loved telling stories about the wild and wonderful times she had growing up and the lessons they learned along the way. Elizabeth attended the Hamburg School and joined Shiloh Presbyterian Church at age thirteen, where she remained a devoted member throughout her life, teaching Sunday School for many years. She also loved hosting and attending Presbyterian Women's Circle meetings. During World War II, she was excited to enter the workforce alongside her sisters, and landed her first job at the Minute Grill in Gastonia. She met the love of her life at an ice cream parlor and after a whirlwind romance, she married US Army Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Redmond in a candlelit ceremony at Macedonia Baptist Church on August 2, 1947. The ceremony took place at eight o'clock in the evening during a thunderstorm that knocked out power to the church. During their young life together, they ran a small store. She was proud to have won first prize for "Best Door Decoration" at their home in McAdenville - Christmastown USA. In later years, she worked in textiles like her husband, and was a homemaker. Together they purchased and restored an old Greek Revival home on acreage in Kings Mtn where they would raise their six children. A lifelong gardener and lover of flowers, she cultivated an impressive garden of roses and other beautiful blooms. She loved pink. She was a talented seamstress, making everything from beautiful dresses to doll clothes and curtains. She was a wonderful cook - she loved to can fresh vegetables from her garden and enjoyed preparing huge spreads of food for her family on holidays. She loved dancing and listening to music - old hymns and 40's classics among her favorites. She looked forward to getting together with her large extended family each year at the Love Reunion - a family reunion held at Antioch every second Sunday in September since the 1940s. "Aunt Lib," as she was known to her more than thirty nieces and nephews, gave giant squeezing hugs and had the best laugh.
She spent her later years at home on the NC Coast and loved looking out over the water, rocking on the porch, and caring for her flowers. She enjoyed the family's many small dogs and watching the hummingbirds from her window. She loved the simple home cooking of her youth - cornbread and milk was a weekly staple.
Elizabeth was preceded in death by her husband Thomas; brothers: Edward (Sue), Lewis (Lois), Theodore, David (Lois), and Odell Love (Shirley); sisters: Gertrude Compton (Dick), Estelle Beam (Johnny), Ethel Mobley (Bob), Sarah Purser (Laney), Margaret Carpenter (Nevin), and Rebecca Helms (Kermit); and grandson Chris Palmer.

Left to cherish her memory are her children Eric Redmond (Theresa), Jeff Redmond (Jane), Dr. Berniece Redmond (Bob), Youthon Redmond, Tee Jay Redmond (Carolyn), and Angela Leinweber Lail (Chad); grandchildren Jacob Redmond, Melissa Nantz (Trey), Trent Redmond, Caroline Zeglen (Kevin), Eric Leinweber, and McKenzie Hurdle (James); brother Olin Love (Mary), and sister-in-law Juanita Love.

Funeral service will be held at Shiloh Presbyterian Church in Grover, NC on Sunday, February 9, 2025 at 2pm. Receiving of friends and family will be held at 1pm prior to the service. Graveside service to follow at Grover Cemetery.

As her family, we are so grateful to her for everything she gave to us and we will dearly miss her. We love you, love you, love you - our precious mother. God knew we needed you.

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