Loretta D. “Dee” Ledy Receives KBA 50 Year Club Award
In the 53 years of her banking career, Dee Ledy has served her community of Winfield working for different banks including where she started as a senior in high school at First Community Federal Savings and Loan Association to RCB Bank, where Dee works now. Dee loved the banking industry so much that she worked her way up the ladder to where she currently serves as Assistant Vice President of Real Estate, Consumer and Commercial Real Estate Lending.
Several highlights of Dee’s impressive career include:
- First Federal S&L’s conversion to computers
- Offering first-time adjustable rate mortgages
- Being involved in the design of the second-floor lending department when First Community Federal S&L built a new building in Winfield
- Traveling across the United States to verify mortgage loans her bank wanted to purchase from other lenders and to attend mortgage lending classes
- Keeping up with changing regulations in mortgage lending
- Managing up to 10 employees and helping three generations of customers realize their dreams to purchase, remodel or build a home
Dee has been married for 52 years, has two daughters and one grandson. She plans to continue her career and serve the upcoming fourth generation of banking customers.
KBCS Welcomes Lewis Walton as a Compliance Auditor
Lewis Walton joined the KBA April 12 as a compliance auditor with Kansas Bankers Consulting Services. He is a recent graduate of KU Law. His accomplishments during law school include earning a certificate in Tax Law, as well as earning “Best Oralist” in the 28th Annual Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Midwest Regionals. Lewis comes to the KBA with an extensive history in regulatory compliance. As the Applied Technology Director for Goodlife Innovations (a Kansas nonprofit), Lewis served as a HIPAA privacy officer and security officer for over 10 years. He also briefly held the same role for Lakeview Neuro Rehab Hospital in Waterford, WI, where he supervised implementation of the hospital’s first electronic health record system.
Dan Coup Retirement
His first loan form was about the size of an envelope printed on just one side. Dan Coup figured out the interest on a separate sheet of paper by hand with a pencil.
There have been many changes in banking over the past 51 years Coup has worked at the bank. Last month he retired as the president and chief executive officer at The First National Bank of Hope.
He passed those reins on to Dan Cook, who has been with the bank for 17 years. Coup will remain as chairman of the board.
Citizens State Bank Gives $25,000 Donation for New Ag Complex
Citizens State Bank, Marysville, recently gave a $25,000 donation to Marysville public schools to be used for the new ag complex at the junior-senior high school. The money is targeted to help pay off about $170,000 owed for a two-story, $3.1 million building. Leftover money from a $2.6 million school improvement bond and donations helped fund the project. Citizens State Bank assistant vice president Frank Shoemaker and vice president John Luebcke presented the check at Marysville High School’s FFA work auction February 24.
Kolzisek Will Head Citizens Board
Citizens State Bank & Trust Co., Ellsworth, announce that Don Kolzisek, Holyrood, was elected chairman of the board of directors at the annual stockholders meeting January 27, 2021. Kolzisek has served on the bank’s board since 1987 and has a vast history of community service.
