Pub. 9 2020 Issue 1

January/February 2020 13 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 InMemory Remembering Dean W. Fahrbach Haven, Kansas, banker Dean W. Fahrbach passed away Jan. 8, 2020, at the age of 101. Dean’s banking career spanned 70 years from 1940 to 2010. He worked in banks in Hope, Durham and Sylvia, and he moved to Haven in 1955. He eventually came to own and operate the Haven State Bank. He retired as CEO in 1982 and remained on the board until 2010. After retirement, he served as chairman of the state banking board, serving with then-commissioner Newton Male of Augusta. Dean is survived by a son, Mike (Cheri), a sister Betty Frigon (Bernie), four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Remembering Charles Allen Myers Charles Allen Myers, 73, died on Friday, December 27, 2019 at Pioneer Manor in Hugoton, Kansas. He was born July 13, 1946 to Charles Leon and Marjorie (Annis) Myers in Goodland, Kansas. He met and married his high school sweetheart Deanna Stevens, also from Goodland. They just recently celebrated their 51st anniversary. After high school, Charlie attended college at Fort Hays State University where he played football for four years, majored in Special Education and minored in physical education, was a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity and was voted Sweetheart King his sophomore year. His first job out of college was at Holy Family Center, Wichita, KS where he was a teacher and basketball coach for the mentally challenged students enrolled there. The students loved him, more because of how he treated them, not because how much (or little) he knew about basketball! While in Wichita, Charlie was also the co-director of the first Kansas Special Olympics held in Kansas, and helped host Ethel Kennedy who attended that year to represent the Kennedy family. Later he helped organize the first Kansas State Basketball Tournament for Mentally Challenged Youth. Once Charlie and Deanna started a family, Charlie switched careers and began working in the banking industry. The family lived in Herington, Syracuse, and Sublette as Charlie was employed by the various banks in those locations. He was employed by Centera Bank in Sublette his last 30 years of banking. He was Director and President of the bank during that time.