F. C. Love
{{short description|American lawyer}}
Frank Criner Love, Jr. (April 29, 1908 – December 2, 1978)https://www.fold3.com/record/56843250/f-love-social-security-death-index was an American lawyer and president of the Kerr-McGee oil company.
Early life
Frank Criner Love, Jr.{{cite news|title=Margaret Eugenia Vessels Love|url=http://newsok.com/margaret-eugenia-vessels-love/article/2883270|accessdate=14 February 2015|work=NewsOK|date=February 3, 2005}} was born in Purcell, Oklahoma, the son of Frank C. Love, Sr. and Louanna Edwards Love,{{cite news|title=Pauline Love 'Polly' Johnson|url=http://newsok.com/pauline-love-polly-johnson/article/2140905|accessdate=13 February 2015|work=Oklahoman|date=March 14, 1986}} and graduated in Law from the University of Oklahoma in 1930.{{cite web|title=Photograph 2012.201.B0363B.0389|url=http://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc458900/|website=Gateway to Oklahoma History|accessdate=12 February 2015}}{{cite web|title=Roll Call|url=http://digital.libraries.ou.edu/sooner/articles/p9-15_1955v27n10_OCR.pdf|website=University of Oklahoma|accessdate=12 February 2015}}
In 1895, his father built the historic landmark in downtown Purcell, Hotel Love and, according to his great-granddaughter Jenny Love Meyer, he owned a bank and several other businesses in Purcell.{{cite news|last1=Sutter|first1=Ellie|title=From humble beginnings|url=http://newsok.com/purcell-point-of-view-from-humble-beginnings/article/2706153|accessdate=13 February 2015|work=NewsOK.com|date=July 30, 2000}}
Career
In 1950, it was reported in the Daily Oklahoman, that "Frank C. Love, vice-president of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc., this week takes over as president of the new Deep Rock Oil Co. Love is a native of Purcell, graduated in law at University of Oklahoma and practiced in Oklahoma City in 1930-34, then joined Shell Oil."
In 1963, it was reported in the Daily Oklahoman, that "City industrialist Frank C. Love, 54, executive vice president of Kerr-McGee Industries, Inc., is a candidate for councilman in Ward 3 with the backing of the Association for Responsible Government."{{cite web|title=Photograph 2012.201.B0363B.0402|url=http://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc443696/|website=Gateway to Oklahoma History|accessdate=12 February 2015}}
Love was president of Kerr-McGee Corporation in, at least, 1968{{cite news|title=Company plans still firm on coastal phosphate|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=348&dat=19681004&id=EvpMAAAAIBAJ&pg=7502,4743159|accessdate=12 February 2015|work=Rome News-Tribune|date=October 4, 1968}} and 1969.{{cite news|title=Transworld Announces Four Key Appointments|url=http://magazines.marinelink.com/Magazines/MaritimeReporter/19690815/flash/?page=20|accessdate=12 February 2015|work=Maritime Reporter and Engineering News|date=15 August 1969}}
Personal life
On December 29, 1931, he married Margaret Eugenia Vessels (November 12, 1910 – January 31, 2005), the daughter of Tom and Kathryn Hoehn Vessels, who had been a fellow student at the University of Oklahoma, and they settled in Oklahoma City where they resided until his death in 1978. She was an ardent Catholic and converted her husband after eight years of marriage. In 1967, she was made a Lady of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre by the Pope, for her many years on the Pastoral Board of the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City.
- William F. Love
- Sara Helen Gardiner
- Thomas E. Love (October 1937 – March 7, 2023), the billionaire owner, founder and chairman of Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores.{{cite news|last1=Shottenkirk|first1=Marcia|title=The Century Club: Tom Love, CEO of Love's Country Stores|url=https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-5853400/the-century-club-tom-love-ceo-of-love-s-country|accessdate=12 February 2015|work=The Journal Record|date=April 9, 2007}}
- Kathryn Ramseur
- Charles E. Love
- Margaret Goodman
- John J. Love
He died at the age of 70 on December 2, 1978, and is buried at the Resurrection Memorial Cemetery, Oklahoma City.