LP Gas, March 2014
HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES Continued from page 45 Beverly Hills High School where he became known as a great athlete He earned the nickname of the fictional baseball player because of his great arm but lettered in basketball Raised by his mother after his parents divorce Jarvis joined the Army Air Forces in 1942 and trained to pilot a B 24 Liberator Bomber He served in the European Theater successfully completing 28 combat missions and was awarded the Air Medal After the war he returned to California where he attended Santa Barbara State College and the University of Southern California He met Helen and when they married in 1948 he quit school never completing college or earning his degree according to Nancy Coop the couples oldest daughter who followed her fathers path into the propane industry Left to his thoughts He found a job as a salesman for Superior Tank in Los Angeles selling tanks for At 19 years old Jarvis completed his pilot training in the Army Air Forces about seven years Then one day during a two to three hour drive home from Californias central valley with a broken car radio Jarvis had time to think Stuck with his own thoughts on this long drive spending the day selling tanks for Superior he thought I could do this Coop recounts He had some strong ideas about how these trucks should be built It was on that drive home that he decided to quit his job and start his own company It was all for the loss of the radio He gets home and says to my mom Jarvis in his military uniform in 1943 Jarvis right with his father Edward P Jarvis Sr spent his life near the ocean 46 LPGas March 2014 www LPGasmagazine com
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