Frank Carmine Sabatini
1932-2021
Frank Carmine Sabatini, born in 1932, 89 years of age, passed away Sunday, October 24, 2021, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was surrounded by family at his home in Topeka, Kansas. Frank was born in Chicago, Illinois, a first-generation Italian American. After graduating from Chicago Tilden Tech High School, he earned a football scholarship which brought him to the University of Kansas. He graduated from KU with a B.S. degree in Industrial Management and a Juris doctorate. Frank served our country in the U.S. Army at Fort Benning, Georgia, and continued his service in the Army National Guard. He was a director of Fidelity State Bank & Trust Co. in Topeka until purchasing Capital City Bank & Trust from Georgia Neese Gray in 1979. Frank grew the community bank to include 11 regional locations before merging with Capital Federal in 2018. He served on countless boards and committees, always willing to give time, treasure and talent to organizations that made a positive impact on people and the community. He served with love, could see potential in people, and worked tirelessly to develop that potential.
Howard K. Loomis
1927-2021
Howard K. Loomis, President of The Peoples Bank, Pratt, for 35 years and its Board Chairman for 18 years, died Friday, September 24, 2021, in Pratt, Kansas Howard was born April 9, 1927, the son of Arthur L. and Genevieve Krey Loomis, educated in Omaha Public Schools, and graduated from Omaha Central High School in 1945. He followed his parent’s footsteps and attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949 and a Master of Business Administration in 1950. During the Korean War, he was a member of the Army of the United States stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, auditing payroll records of the 10th Infantry Division.
Since his education and work experience were in finance, Howard looked for opportunities in Kansas banking. A resident of Pratt since July 1963, he arranged to become involved in the management of The Peoples Bank over many years. At the state level, he was vice president and director of the Kansas Bankers Association and the Kansas Association of Commerce, and a board member (and commanding general for two years) of the Kansas Cavalry, Economic Lifelines, Kansas, Inc., and Kansas Wildscape Foundation. He served as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (during the Paul Volcker era as Fed Chairman) from 1979 to 1986. Then allowed by Kansas law, The Peoples Bank established an office in Medicine Lodge, and acquired the Sharon Valley State Bank and the Farmers State Bank of Hardtner and Kiowa. It recently added offices in Greensburg and Kingman in south-central Kansas and Smith Center, Lebanon, Luray, and Osborne in north-central Kansas.
