Billy Ray Hartgrove

Background

Hartgrove, Billy Ray was born on September 10, 1931 in Beaumont, Texas, United States. Son of L.B. and Virginia (Ledenham) Hartgrove.

Education

Student McNeese State College, Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1949-1952, University Houston, 1959-1960.

Career

Vice president Great Midwest Life Insurance.Co., Oklahoma City, 1962-1964. Vice president, secretary Security Brokers Investment Corporation, Oklahoma City, 1964-1966, Great Midwest Life Insurance, 1967-1969. Vice president, secretary United Investors, Incorporated., 1969-1973, president, 1974-1981.

Vice president, secretary Mid-American Investors Life Insurance Company, Oklahoma City, 1969-1971, president, 1971-1972 (merged into Investors Life), president Investors Life, 1973-1975, Liberty Investors of Oklahoma, 1975-1982, Liberty Investors Life of Arizona, 1981-1982.

Chairman of the Board Town and Country Insurance Company, 1982-1985. Executive vice president Southwest Manufacturing Company, since 1985.

Achievements

• Billy Ray Hartgrove has been listed as a noteworthy manufacturing executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served to Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve, 1952-1957.

Connections

Married Evelyn Summers, March 31, 1955;children— Billy Ray, Brian Lee. Children: Billy Ray, Brian Lee.

Father:

L.B. Hartgrove

Mother:

Virginia (Ledenham) Hartgrove

Spouse:

Evelyn Summers

child:

Billy Ray Hartgrove

child:

Brian Lee Hartgrove