LP Gas • March 2022 • LP GAS HALL OF FAME

Ohio marketer Doug Auxier has provided the industry with a strong voice and commanding presence for more than 50 years. Auxier has been active in the propane industry at the state and national levels. He was president of the Ohio Propane Gas Association in 1988-89 and, as Ohio’s state director with NPGA, he was recognized as State Director of the Year in 1992. One of Auxier’s most satisfying industry efforts came in the mid-1990s when he co-founded and served as the first chairman of the old Midwest Convention. His leadership in the industry continued at the national level as he chaired NPGA committees focused on safety and market development. He went through the chairs and ascended to NPGA chairman in 2003-04. Auxier also served on the Propane Education & Research Council (PERC) from 2005-10. He remains owner of Auxier Gas and resides in the Cincinnati area.

Having an underground propane storage cavern named in his honor puts Richard Barker in a unique category. Spearheading the project for a rural, independent propane company in Indiana helped to make product more readily available for propane marketers in the high-demand Midwest region. Propane customers within a 250-mile radius could obtain product from Silgas’ underground cavern in Seymour, Indiana. Completed in 1979, the cavern could store 21 million gallons of propane in an expanse of 10 acres. Barker was also actively involved in the Indiana Propane Gas Association, conducting seminars for members on how to operate a propane business efficiently.

Nancy Coop has represented multiple sides of the propane industry, including equipment manufacturing, retail propane and association leadership. In every aspect of her career, Coop has been a strong and passionate ambassador for her companies and for the industry. Her most groundbreaking endeavor for the industry is her role as founding chairwoman of the Women in Propane Council, an NPGA business council formed in 2012. Coop officially started her career in the propane industry in 2005 when she purchased Jarco Inc., a propane truck manufacturer founded by her father, LP Gas Hall of Famer Casey Jarvis, in 1959. She sold the company in 2010 and became a business development executive for Ferrellgas. She now serves as director of marketing with the financial advisory professionals at Cetane Associates.

Of the more than 35 years that Joe Rose has spent in the propane industry, he devoted about a decade to leading the six-state New England association. He retired as president and CEO of the association in 2017 but left his mark in a region unique to the propane industry due to its extreme winter weather, supply-and-distribution challenges and growth opportunities. He has been heavily involved in the industry outside of New England, both with PERC and NPGA. He serves as a goodwill ambassador for Lin’s Propane Trucks.

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