Nash M. Love

Nash M. Love/ Mr. Nash M. Love, 84, died Saturday, May 24, 2008, at Cypress Glen Retirement Community. A memorial service will be conducted Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in the Brown Chapel at Cypress Glen. Burial and graveside services will be at Pohick Episcopal Church in Lorton, Va., on Friday at 1 p.m. Mr. Love was a native of North Carolina, born in Albemarle. He worked as locomotive fireman on the Norfolk Southern Railroad from March 1942 until January 1943 and was qualified to fire any type of steam locomotive. A veteran of WWII in the Pacific Theater, Mr. Love served aboard the attack transport USS President Jackson and was invited to attend Officer's Training at Duke University through the V-12 Program where he was commissioned in 1946 with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. After working as design engineer and chief engineer for Newcomb & Boyd and Wm. H. Singleton Co., Inc., respectively, he started his own company. From 1959 to 1990, he was president and then chairman of the board/CEO of Nash M. Love & Associates, a consulting engineering and facility planning company in Washington, DC. His work was well-known and well-respected, and his firm was responsible for over 600 new and retrofit projects including The National Gallery of Art, National Building Museum, Watergate Hotel and Apartments, U.S. Capitol, U.S. Supreme Court, National Archives, and the airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In 1985, he and his family moved to Lake of the Woods, outside Fredericksburg, Va., and became co-founder of Riverside Dinner Theater in Fredericksburg. He and his wife have been very involved in the Methodist Church, helping in the planning and building of Aldersgate Methodist Church in Alexandria, and becoming active in their community churches. He is survived by his wife, Anne Henderson Love, his three children, Jennifer Love Brill and husband, Bruce, Allison Louise Vonn-Love and husband, Bryan, and Bruce Howard Love; four grandchildren, Michael Love, Jim Love, Katie Love and Jackson Pethtal, and one great-grandchild, Melanie Love. Mr. Love enjoyed playing golf, carving decoy waterfowl, boating and traveling the world. Together with his wife, he has seen and experienced most of the countries in the world. Memorial contributions may be made to: Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children, 2900 Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, Florida, 33607-1435. (www.shrinershq.org) Arrangements by Wilkerson Funeral Home and Crematory.