Thomas E. Love was born on October 1937 and lived until March 7, 2023.
He was an American billionaire businessman. He was the owner, founder, and executive chairman of Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores.
Thomas E. Love was born in Oklahoma City in October 1937, one of six siblings, the son of F. C. Love, a lawyer who was later president of the oil company Kerr-McGee, and Margaret Eugenia Vessels Love.
Aged 13, he left home to be educated as a boarder at St. Gregory’s High School in Shawnee, where he was a standout football player.
Love attended St. John’s University in St. Cloud, Minnesota, but left after less than one semester. He then joined the US Marine Corps and over a three-year career, rose to the rank of corporal. When he left the Marines, he married and decided to try college once more. He dropped out of the University of Oklahoma in 1964.
Initially, Love owned restaurants and car washes, until he discovered an opportunity in abandoned gas stations.
In January 1964, Love and his wife Judy leased a self-service gas station in Watonga, Oklahoma. Love went on to open another 30 gas stations. Then in 1971, he decided to merge self-service gas stations with convenience stores, and the business continued to grow.
Today, Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores is a national chain with more than 580 locations in 41 states.
Tom Love died in Oklahoma City on March 7, 2023, at age 85.
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