Jackson B. Love

JACKSON BENJAMIN LOVE Jackson Benjamin Love, born to Benjamin Walter and Ocie Strickland Love on August 6, 1912 near Bronco, Territory of New Mexico, where the Love's were homesteading, passed away on September 5, 2007 at age 95. After a wagon trip back to Texas, Jack grew up near Anson, Texas. After attending the University of Texas, he was employed by the U.S. Department of Justice in several investigative capacities. He was married to Sylvia Pauline Fitzsimons on June 30, 1938 in San Antonio. He was designated and commissioned as a Special Inspector to New York, El Paso and San Antonio. While in Washington D.C., he attended George Washington University School of Law and later received his JD from St. Mary's University in 1945. He served in the United States Army Air Corp (U.S. Air Force) as an intelligence officer during WW II from 1942-1945 and was discharged with the rank of Captain. During his lifetime, he has been commissioned as a Deputy Sheriff; a Special Texas Ranger by Col. Homer Garrison; Deputy Collector of the Internal Revenue Service; Special Inspector, U.S. Immigration; and Deputy U.S. Marshall for the Western District of Texas. Jack ranched in Texas and South Dakota for many, many years. As well as being a rancher, he was in real estate and the oil business. He served as Director of the Texas and South Western Cattle Raisers Association and has held a real estate license for over 50 years. Jack has been a Director of the San Antonio Livestock Show since its inception with a Director's Emeritus Badge #5. He created, in the 1950's, the Texas Law Enforcement Foundation along with Texas Attorney General, John Ben Shepperd; author Erle Stanley Gardner; Colonel Homer Garrison, Head of Texas Department of Public Safety; John Davenport; and Jim West, rancher and oilman. He has been a member of Masonic Lodge for over 60 years and is a Shriner. He also served in many other capacities as a civic leader. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Sylvia Pauline Fitzsimons Love; and a sister, Leta B. Harris. He is survived by his daughter, Kathleen Fitzsimons Love, Fredonia, TX; his son, Jackson Benjamin Love, Jr. and his wife, Katharine Armstrong Love, of Marathon and Austin, TX; five grandchildren, R.J. Horsak, V, Los Angeles, CA; Celice Horsak, Tuscaloosa, AL; Sara Margaret Love Hernandez, Marathon, TX; Susanna Fitzsimons Love Smith, Big Cabin, OK; and Carmen Kathleen Love Mero, Stockdale, TX; four great-grandsons, Sean, R.J., Quinten and Brody; a sister, Martha Marie Cameron, Anson, TX and a brother, Maj. (Ret.) James Walter Love, Scottsdale, AZ. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Foundation, PO Box 868 Ft. Worth, TX 76101 or San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo, Attention: Sarita, PO Box 200230, San Antonio, TX 78220-0230. Private funeral services for Mr. Love were held on September 10, 2007 in San Antonio. You are invited to sign the guestbook at www.porterloring.com Arrangements with Porter Loring Mortuary.