Frank Love (1878-1954)
Frank Love, Ex-Principal, Dies in Crash
Funeral services for Frank Love, 76, former principal of the Highland and Griffith public schools, will be held Tuesday.Love who had been in Highland for 10 years and the same number of years at Griffith, was fatally injured in an auto crash at Clifton, Ill., Saturday. He was on his way to spend the Christmas holidays in Texas when his auto was struck by another on an icy patch of road.
Services Tuesday will be at 2 pm. in the Marshall Funeral Home, Maple Street, Grant Park, Ill. Love resided at Grant Park following his retirement as a school administrator. The Rev. Scott Simer of the Sherburnville Church in Sherburnville, Ill., will officiate. Burial will be in Sherburnville cemetery.
LOVE HAD retired to a farm in Grant Park, Ill., and was the oldest Flying Farmer in Illinois, having obtained a pilot's license at the age of 69.
Active in civic affairs at Grant Park, Love had been president of the town's school, was a member of the Flying Farmers and the Kankakee County Historical Society.
Love was born in Sherburnville Aug. 19, 1878. A son, Keith, of Grant Park, survives.
The following unidentified newspaper article was found in a scrapbook owned by Town Historian Richard Schmal:
Frank Love, 76, Former Resident, Dies in Auto Crash
Frank Love, 76, was fatally injured in an auto crash at Clifton, Ill., Saturday while enroute to Texas to spend the Christmas holidays. His auto was struck by another on an icy stretch of road.The son of the late Andrew Love, a Lowell farmer, Frank was born at Sherburnville, 6 miles west of Lowell, on August 19, 1878.
Mr. Love had been principal of the Highland school for 10 years and had served the same number of years as principal of Griffith school. Since his retirement he had resided on his farm near Grant Park, Ill., and was the oldest Flying Farmer in Illinois, having obtained his pilot's license at the age of 69. He participated in the many air activities held at the Lake Village Airport.
Active in civic affairs at Grant Park, he had been president of the town's school board, was a member of the Flying Farmers and the Kankakee County Historical Society.
Memorial services were held Tuesday at Grant Park with the Rev. R. Simes of the Sherburnville church officiating, and burial was in Sherburnville cemetery.
A son Keith, of Grant Park, survives.
Go to Frank Love, "Pioneer History Index," for further information.
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