F. C. Love

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."^[4]

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."^[7]

Love was president of Kerr-McGee Corporation in, at least, 1968^[8] and 1969.^[9]

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.^[2] 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.^[2]

They had seven children:^[2]

• 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.^[10]
• Kathryn Ramseur
• Charles E. Love
• Margaret Goodman
• John J. Love

He died at the age of 70 on December 2, 1978,^[2] and is buried at the Resurrection Memorial Cemetery, Oklahoma City.