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Tom Love Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores
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Tom Love, founder of Love's Travel Stops, dies at 85

Tom Love, who, alongside partner and wife Judy, founded Love's Travel Stops and Country Stores and grew it into a network of more than 600 locations, died March 7 at his home in Oklahoma City. He was 85.

Hanin
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Allied Discount Tires founder Stanley Hanin dies

Hanin was best known in central Florida for having founded Allied Discount Tires Inc., a chain of discount tire stores made famous by the tagline that "Tires Ain't Pretty."

Driver Ken Block and his Audi S1 E-Tron Quattro Hoonitron in the viral video Electrikhana.
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Ken Block remembered for extreme driving, smoking tires

Block, 55, died Jan. 2 in a snowmobile accident near his home in Woodland, Utah.

Former TBC Corp. President and CEO Erik R. Olsen
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Former TBC president, CEO Erik Olsen, 59, dies

Erik R. Olsen, who stepped down as CEO and president of TBC Corp. in June 2021, died on Sept. 28 after a brief illness. He was 59.

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Northwest Tire founder Vetter dies at 80

Anthony "Tony" Vetter, longtime owner of Northwest Tire Inc., died Oct. 1 at the age of 80.

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2022 Tire Industry Hall of Famer DePaolis dies

DePaolis was president and CEO of Johnny Antonelli Tire Co. in Rochester, N.Y., as well as president of the National Tire Dealers & Retreaders Association.

Donzaleigh McCord speaks at the 2022 Tire Industry Association's OTR Tire Conference.
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BKT service manager McCord dies at age 70

Donzaleigh McCord, Balkrishna Industries Ltd.'s customer service manager, died Sept. 14. She was 70.

 Marvin Bozarth
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Marvin Bozarth, retreading bulwark, dies at age 85

Marvin Bozarth, a retread industry mainstay for the better part of six decades, died Sept. 1 at the Missouri Veterans Home in Mexico. He was 85.

Vanaman
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Wayne Vanama, founder of Akron's Van's Tire, dies

Vanaman founded the Akron-area tire dealership in the 1970s.

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Stokes Tire owner Beroth dies at age 65

Thomas Jasper Beroth Jr. died July 7 after a two-year battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. He was 65.

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