Bank Iowa cofounder passes away
Harry Barr, who cofounded Bank Iowa in 1976 with a pair of business partners, passed away July 1 at the age of 84. [Continue]
Castle Rock banker, Dan Nicolai, passes away
Life-long community banker and patriarch of the 104-year-old Castle Rock Bank in Castle Rock, Minn., passed away June 13. He was 88. [Continue]
Icon of agricultural banking dies
Frank Bruning, chairman emeritus of Bruning State Bank in Bruning, Neb., died June 1 after a fall at his home. Bruning began his life’s work in 1964, working in the bank his grandfather helped launch in the late 1800s. The bank was then called The German Bank, a nod to the family’s ancestry. The family changed the name of the bank to Bruning State Bank after World War I. [Continue]
UMACHA’s Fred Laing II passes away
Fred Laing, II, former president and CEO of UMACHA, passed away suddenly Nov. 27 at his home in Elk River, Minn. [Continue]
MutualFirst president, COO dies
Patrick Botts, president and chief operating officer of MutualFirst Financial, Inc., Muncie, Ind. He was 55 and also a director of the company. [Continue]
Nebraska banking icon Andrew “Skip” Hove dies
Icon of Nebraska community banking and longtime figure in Washington, D.C., regulatory circles, Andrew C. “Skip” Hove Jr., died in Lincoln, Neb., on August 18. He was 84. [Continue]
Credit expert, consultant, Jeff Judy dies
Jeff Judy, a long-time industry consultant, died Sunday, March 3 at his home in Bloomington, Minn. His firm, Jeff Judy & Associates, provided training in credit and other industry topics. [Continue]
Former Iowa banker Neighbor passes away
Morris F. Neighbor, former owner of Farmers Sate Bank of Marion, Iowa, died Feb. 11. He served as CEO of the bank until 1999. [Continue]
Remembrance: Truman Jeffers had lasting influence on industry … and my career
BankBeat Publisher Tom Bengtson had the good fortune of working for Truman Jeffers for two of the 25 years he headed the Minnesota Bankers Association. While saddened to learn of his death at age 85 on Dec. 20, he offers his reflections on the impact he made as one of his first bosses and mentors. [Continue]
NICB’s Kurt Yost dies unexpectedly
Kurt Yost, president and CEO of the Nebraska Independent Community Bankers, passed away unexpectedly on October 29, from a complication of surgery. He was 70. Yost had led the NICB for 34 years and was set to retire at the end of this year. He had planned to split his retirement between spending time with … Read more