IXL Propane owner dies

Robert Cox, the owner of IXL Propane in Molalla, Ore., died Aug. 14. He was 51.

Cox had been around the petroleum industry since he was a teenager. He started working at his dad’s service station and later served as a partner in a retail propane business, Don Cox Propane, with his dad. That business sold in 1995, and Cox turned his attention to developing IXL Propane.