Eleanor “Ellie” Laverne Love, age 84 of Butler, Missouri died Saturday, September 13, 2025 at her home in Butler. She was born October 27, 1940 to Orville Henry and Ruth Ellen Ransier Beasley in Urich, Missouri.
Ellie, one of four children, grew up in Urich, Missouri where she graduated from Urich High School in 1958. Shortly after graduation on June 6, 1958 she married Joe Love and they moved to Chicago, Illinois. It wasn’t long when Ellie became homesick and they moved to Ballard and then Amsterdam, Missouri. She worked as a waitress and a cook for several local businesses before starting a career with Bass Busters–then later the Uncle Josh Fishing Company. After the passing of her husband, Ellie moved to Butler where she has resided since 2012. She was a member of the Happy Hill Church of God and the Friendship Club of Amsterdam.
Ellie is described as a Christian who was loving, caring, compassionate and strong. She enjoyed watching the Kansas City Chiefs, Royals and Nascar. She had a beautiful voice and loved to sing to her family and at the church with Pat Morris. Ellie also sang with her siblings while in high school and was featured on a TV station out of Sedalia, Missouri. If she wasn’t cheering on her sports teams or singing, she was enjoying the tranquility of nature including fishing–a love which she passed down to her family.
Ellie is survived by two sons, Joey Love and significant other Christine of Merwin, Missouri and Terry Love of Mapleton, Kansas; three daughters, Sherry Moon and husband Marty of Centerview, Missouri, Mary Jackson of Butler, Missouri and Tracy Burch and husband Clark of Amsterdam, Missouri; one brother, Carl Beasley of Garden City, Missouri; one sister, Lela Burton of Garden City, Missouri; one sister-in-law, Ina Beasley of Garden City, Missouri; one daughter-in-law, Nancy Guenter Love of Sparks, Nevada; 14 grandchildren, Joe (Michelle) Love, Christina (Mike) Love, Tom (Holly) Love, Allen Moon, Daniel (Rose) Moon, Melissa (Tristan) Richards, Joshua (Amanda) Jackson, Amber Jackson, Ashley (Chad) Miller, Felicia Love, Roy (Bridget) Love, Natasha (Blake) Magathan, Jessi (A.D.) Burch, and Ruby (Jacob) Chrisman; 24 great-grandchildren; and a lifelong best friend, Ida Kaufman. Ellie was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Joe Love; one brother, Orville Beasley; son-in-law, Bob Jackson; and a dog, Scruffy.