Category: Inductees

LP Gas Hall of Fame Inductee – Class of 2012 Often referred to as the founder of the LPG industry, Snelling was a chemist and explosives expert who first identified propane as a volatile element in gasoline in 1910. He distilled the liquid from gaseous components and then created ways to extract the LPGs during…

LP Gas Hall of Fame Inductee – Class of 2012 Myers’ 25-year track record at Petrolane helped launch a continuing career developing the engine fuel market nationally and abroad. At Petrolane, he led a company initiative to run 20 autogas conversion and service centers across the country. He left Petrolane in 1990 to form the…

LP Gas Hall of Fame Inductee – Class of 2012 The iconic propane equipment company owner has packed 50-plus years of industry knowledge into an encyclopedic memory that aids the numerous committees on which he still serves at age 85. An outspoken stalwart of industry safety initiatives, the former NPGA chairman received the organization Distinguished…

LP Gas Hall of Fame Inductee – Class of 2012 When his father became ill in 1965, Ferrell received a hardship discharge from the Air Force, took over the reins of the struggling Kansas company and turned it into a national powerhouse serving more than 1 million customers in all 50 states. It also operates…

LP Gas Hall of Fame Inductee – Class of 2012 Son of company founder Woodrow Blossman, he grew the Mississippi-based family business into the nation’s largest independent marketer. The former NPGA president was instrumental in developing many educational materials and the implementation of the nationwide Gas Check safety program. He died in 2009.

LP Gas Hall of Fame Inductee – Class of 2012 Because his New Jersey home was beyond the range of gas lines, Anton found that he could obtain propane from a nearby Phillips Petroleum Co. plant that considered the gas a useless byproduct of the oil-refining process. He formed Suburban Propane Gas Co. in 1928…

LP Gas Hall of Fame Inductee – Class of 2015 Revere, president of the third-generation Virginia company, was selected for LP Gas Hall of Fame honors in the same year that he won the NPGA’s Distinguished Service Award. Revere has been an effective industry spokesperson for more than 50 years. He played a pivotal role in the…

LP Gas Hall of Fame Inductee – Class of 2015 Miller, who is unafraid to take on political issues that impact the propane industry, played an instrumental role in the grassroots effort to create PERC. Miller owns Miller’s Bottled Gas in Bowling Green, Ky., and has lobbied at both the national and state levels for…

LP Gas Hall of Fame Inductee – Class of 2015 Kean, former president of Utility Propane Co. in Elizabeth, N.J., was instrumental in the 1987 creation of the World LP Gas Forum, an organization that became the World LPG Association. Kean led a movement to form the organization along with Irish retailer Denis Shelly of…

LP Gas Hall of Fame Inductee – Class of 2015 Some say Bertelsmeyer, a 40-year veteran of the propane industry, wrote the book on how to build a “company of companies” through acquisitions. He founded Heritage Propane in 1989 and helped take it public in 1996. The retail propane operation grew to become the third…