Connie Mack Lovvorn

Connie Mack Lovvorn was born May 22, 1940 at home in Cullman, Alabama to sharecroppers Clinton and Willie Blanche Lovvorn. He spent his early years picking cotton before he was allowed to play, later moving to Birmingham where he would eventually attend Birmingham-Southern College and marry. Mack was a man who experienced the epic changes of the 20th century including the civil rights movement. He often said he was lucky in life to have found three loves of his life, Rose, Marti, and Linda, and to raise five daughters, Pam, Karen, Kristen, Lindsey and Jessica. He raised these daughters in both the throes of Beatlemania and Spice Girls--easily accepting his role as a father to daughters and trying to keep up with the immense changes of technology that occurred over his lifetime.

Raised in the Southern Baptist tradition, he often talked about his first visit to a Methodist Church as a teenager where he said he heard for the first time that God loved him. The words stuck with him and he devoted the majority of his adult life to ministry and a desire to live out that love and grace. Life and family needs eventually brought him to Colorado where he served a number of congregations of the Rocky Mountain United Methodist Conference. After over four decades of ministry he retired and took a job working for Sky West Airlines throwing bags. He greatly enjoyed the flight benefits and flew himself and his family around the world on more than a few non-rev, standby adventures.

Over the last eleven years he and Linda traveled regularly, crossing off bucket list trips, and bird-gazing in epic locations. He showed up to sit with sick grandchildren when their parents had to work, cheered on the sidelines of gymnastics, school plays and soccer games, and continued to nurture friendships with his Clergy group, book club and other friends he had known for many years. He was a man of relationship--caring deeply for those he loved.

He is survived by his wife, Linda Wyatt, children, Karen Erdman, Kristen Difani, Lindsey Tapp, and Jessica Personett, bonus children, Laura, Andrew, and Joshua, grandchildren, Jake, Kasey, Bella, William, Avery, Elizabeth, Hudson, Theo, and Oliver, and great-grandchildren, Ellen, Elijah, Jordyn, and Jade. He follows in death so many dear loved ones including, wife, Marti Zimmerman, daughter, Pamela Melena, his parents, siblings, and countless friends.