F. C. Love

Frank Criner Love, Jr. (1908 – December 2, 1978) was an American lawyer and president of the Kerr-McGee oil company.

Early life
Love Hotel, Purcell

Frank Criner Love, Jr.[1] was born in Purcell, Oklahoma, the son of Frank C. Love, Sr. and Louamma Edwards Love,[2] and graduated in Law from the University of Oklahoma in 1930.[3][4]

In 1895, his father built Purcell's Love Hotel and, according to his great-granddaughter Jenny Love Meyer, he owned a bank and several other businesses in Purcell.[5]

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."[3]

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."[6]

Love was president of Kerr-McGee Corporation in, at least, 1968[7] and 1969.[8]

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.[1] 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.[1]

They had seven children:[1]

He died in 1978,[1] and is buried at the Resurrection Memorial Cemetery, Oklahoma City.[10]

References
  1. "Margaret Eugenia Vessels Love". NewsOK. February 3, 2005. Retrieved 14 February 2015.
  2. "Pauline Love 'Polly' Johnson". Oklahoman. March 14, 1986. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  3. "Photograph 2012.201.B0363B.0389". Gateway to Oklahoma History. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  4. "Roll Call" (PDF). University of Oklahoma. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  5. Sutter, Ellie (July 30, 2000). "From humble beginnings". NewsOK.com. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
  6. "Photograph 2012.201.B0363B.0402". Gateway to Oklahoma History. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  7. "Company plans still firm on coastal phosphate". Rome News-Tribune. October 4, 1968. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  8. "Transworld Announces Four Key Appointments". Maritime Reporter and Engineering News. 15 August 1969. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  9. Shottenkirk, Marcia (April 9, 2007). "The Century Club: Tom Love, CEO of Love's Country Stores". The Journal Record. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  10. "Frank Criner Love, Jr". findagrave. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
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