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The 40-Year Career that Quietly Helped Redefine an Arkansas Gas Utility

Fred Kirkwood’s four-decade business story started as a love story. Kirkwood, 65, could have had a long career with Walmart, or with Arkansas Best Freight. But he had fallen for a college classmate when he was playing basketball and majoring in business administration and marketing at Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma. His girlfriend, Carla, was from Roland, Oklahoma, just outside Fort Smith, and she liked it. That settled things. ABF…
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Arkansas Business broke the news in on Monday, January 26, 2026.
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