FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Retired agricultural education professor Edwin Lamar Love passed away in Matthews, North Carolina, on March 28. He was 90.

Love, a military veteran who served with the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War, joined the U of A faculty in 1965 and retired in 1992.

Originally a faculty member in the College of Education, Love, James Scanlon and John Rolloff were the first three professors who moved to the College of Agriculture and Home Economics in 1983 to establish the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education.

That move paved the way for what is now the Department of Agricultural Education, Communications and Technology in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences.

"He was always in a good mood and called everyone 'good buddy,'" said Donna L. Graham, University Professor of agricultural and extension education in AECT. "He loved to fish, and was the first to pitch in and help with any project."

Graham, who worked with him for seven years, and Love had been working on a project detailing the origin of the department.

Love taught undergraduate and graduate level classes, advised master's degree students and chaired committees for specialist and doctoral degree candidates.

Following his retirement in 1992, he and his wife Dwanda lived in Arkansas, Florida and Virginia part time before settling in Matthews in 2012.

He is survived by Dwanda, Jeems Love, Patti Steward and Margaret Bolding, seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

About the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences: Bumpers College provides life-changing opportunities to position and prepare graduates who will be leaders in the businesses associated with foods, family, the environment, agriculture, sustainability and human quality of life; and who will be first-choice candidates of employers looking for leaders, innovators, policy makers and entrepreneurs. The college is named for Dale Bumpers, former Arkansas governor and longtime U.S. senator who made the state prominent in national and international agriculture. For more information about Bumpers College, visit our website, and follow us on Twitter at @BumpersCollege and Instagram at BumpersCollege.

About the University of Arkansas: The University of Arkansas provides an internationally competitive education for undergraduate and graduate students in more than 200 academic programs. The university contributes new knowledge, economic development, basic and applied research, and creative activity while also providing service to academic and professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Arkansas among only 2.7 percent of universities in America that have the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the University of Arkansas among its top American public research universities. Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas comprises 10 colleges and schools and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes personal attention and close mentoring.