Pub. 4 2015 Issue 7

l e a d i n g a d v o c a t e f o r t h e b a n k i n g i n d u s t r y i n k a n s a s 16 IN LOVING MEMORY Briefly... In Kansas Banking Denison State Bank, Holton Chelby Cummings of Denison State Bank has been promoted to Topeka branch manager and consumer lender. She has been employed at the bank for 11 years and has 19 years of banking experience. She is a graduate of Allen County Community College. Lyndon State Bank David Thornburgh has been named as the new CEO of Lyndon State Bank. Growing up in Burlingame, KS, David has enjoyed community small town living his entire life. He graduated from Emporia State University with a Bachelor’s of Science in Business in 1980. David has been in the banking industry since graduation working in operations, as a bank examiner for the State of Kansas and The Office of Thrift Supervision. David has worked at Lyndon State Bank since 1998. UMB Bank UMB Bank, n.a., a subsidiary of UMB Financial Corporation announces it has hired Richard Ziegner as executive vice president and director of healthcare banking. Ziegner is responsible for leading the bank’s efforts in the healthcare sector and providing capital and financial solutions to healthcare providers. Ziegner has more than 20 years of financial and healthcare banking and consulting experience. Prior to his new role at UMB, he was senior vice president and regional manager in the healthcare financial services and commercial banking segments at Wells Fargo. Ziegner graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor’s degree in finance. He earned a master’s degree in business administration from Northern Arizona University. Ziegner is active in the community having served on several nonprofit boards, including First Choice Community Healthcare, Inc., and Presbyterian Healthcare Foundation. Byron Thompson, an investment banker and chairman of Kansas City-based Country Club Bank, died peacefully at his home at age 83. Thompson was the patriarch of a family with 11 children, including five who work as executives at Country Club Bank: Mary O’Connor, Paul Thompson, Mark Thompson, Chris Thompson and Tim Thompson. He often described his children as "his greatest wealth." Born July 22, 1932, in St. Joseph, Byron Thompson spent 29 years as an investment banker in Kansas City, working as vice chairman of investment banking at United Missouri Bank of Kansas City. He left to buy Country Club Bank in 1985 with his late business partner, Robert Buckner. Under his leadership, Country Club became one of the largest banks based in the Kansas City area; today, it has about $1.3 billion in assets. It’s also one of the nation's most diverse banks, with a trust company, a brokerage and an investment banking division. It even offers income management and risk assessment services to other banks nationwide, including many that are much bigger. Thompson loved to spend time at the bank, and he continued to be a regular presence in the new headquarters at One Ward Parkway, which was acquired and then renovated in 2013. Thompson also spent several years on the board of Kansas City Southern and was a founding board member for Benedictine College, graduating from its predecessor, St. Benedict’s College, in 1955. He was a charter member of the board of trustees at what is now Rockhurst University. He served on the boards for the Brain Injury Association of Greater Kansas City, Carondelet Foundation, St. Joseph Hospital and Midwest Research Institute. He was a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s Federal Advisory Counsel in 2003, which met quarterly with former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. He was inducted into the Greater Kansas City Business Hall of Fame in 2006. Thompson was a veteran of the Korean War, serving in the U.S. Air Force as a crew chief on a B-26 bomber. W.Sewall Macferran passed away on August 14, 2015 at his home surrounded by family. He was born August 25, 1924, in Topeka to William Jr. and Helen Estey Macferran. He attended Topeka public Schools and graduated from Kansas University School of Business in 1948. While he was at KU, he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, holding the offices of Treasurer and President. Sewall was an active member of First Presbyterian Church where he was an ordained elder, served as Clerk of the Session, Chairman of the Board of Trustees and Church Treasurer. During WWII, Sewall was a navigator of a B-17 crew that was shot down over Germany. He was a prisoner of war for 10 months. In 1954 he married Frances Ann Welch; they had one son. Fran Macferran. He later married Doris Jean Sheahan in 1969; she preceded him in death in 2011. Sewall was in the banking business for 40 years before retiring as President of First State Bank and Trust company in Topeka. In the community, he was active in Downtown Topeka, the Kansas Chapter of the American Ex-Prisoners of War, and a former member of the Lions Club. He served on the Advisory Board of the Topeka Presbyterian Manor and worked with their Good Samaritan Golf Tournament for many years. He was a director and President of the Kansas Homestead Rehabilitation Corporation, and was recently elected Chairman of the Board.