Albert Edwin Lovejoy

Albert Edwin Lovejoy, age 85, died March 8, 2009.  He was born in Meredith, NH on April 19, 1923 to John Augusus Lovejoy and Mary Blanche Knowles Lovejoy.  He grew up in Meredith and graduated from high school there.  He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received his training to teach sociology at the college level.  He was on the faculty at Lynchburg College in Lynchburg, VA from 1950-1957 and on the faculty at Otterbein College, Westerville, OH from 1957-1988.   In 1988, he and his wife, Eunice, moved to Prescott, Ariz., following his retirement from teaching.  He took classes at Yavapai and Prescott Colleges, usually in Creative Writing, American and English Literature, and Philosophy.  He was active in the local chapter of the Archaeology Society, the Prescott Audubon Society, the Prescott Art Docents, and Unitarian Universalist Congregation.  His hobbies were tent camping, hiking, reading, writing, gardening, traveling, and people watching.   After his service in the Army Air Corps as a weather observer, 1943 to 1946, he became an enthusiastic supporter of the United Nations and was in several organizations supporting the UN.  He was the UN as humankind?s best hope for peace, stability, and prosperity in the future.   Dr. Lovejoy is survived by his wife of 62 years, their sons and families: Ed and Susan of Tucson and Ed?s daughter, Elisa of Madison, Wisconsin; David and Amparo Rifa of Prescott; and Stephen and Cathy Stumper of Gambier, Ohio, their daughter, Adrea and her husband, Rudy Rodriguez of Columbus, Ohio, and their child and Albert?s first great-granddaughter, Adela Beatrice, born on March 11.  Albert has always been very proud of his wife, his sons and their families.   A Celebration of Life service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 25,  2009 at Granite Peak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 882 Sunset Ave. in Prescott.  In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorial gifts may be sent to the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, 130 Prospect Ave., Cambridge, MA 02128; to the American Civil Liberties Union, P.O. Box 96266, Washington, DC, or to The Bernadine Edwards Endowed Award which Dr. Lovejoy recently established at Otterbein College, Westerville, OH 43081 to provide financial assistance to adult female students at least 40 years of age.