Frank Crook Loveland was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho on April 15, 1923 and grew up there.

His father, Harlon Acel Loveland, was a farm hand, and his mother, Orilla Crook Loveland, was a homemaker.

The boy completed 8th grade at Idaho Falls Junior High and was active in the Boy Scouts and in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

He worked two years as a laborer at a greenhouse. He joined the Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal Depression-era jobs program, in July 1940. He served in Co. 1967 at Lucin, Idaho.  The CCC employed single men 18 to 25 to plant trees, build roads and trails and make other improvements to public land, forests and parks. They lived at camps across the country and were provided a bed and three meals a day. Of their $30 monthly pay, $25 was sent to their families.

Mr. Loveland enlisted in the Navy on Jan. 24, 1941. He was a seaman second class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.

His brother Weston also served in the Navy during World War II as well as in the Army in the Korean War.

Sources: The Post-Register of Idaho Falls, Idaho; Defense Department; Census; Navy enlistment record and muster roll; Idaho death record; grave markers. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.