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Mary Miller Latham Payne of Amissville is one of those whose family has had ties to the bank over the years. Currently on the bank’s board of directors, Mrs. Payne remembers how her father, A.C. Latham was on the board in 1951 when she started to work there.
“I went to work there in May 1951 and I left in July 1991,” said Mrs. Payne, who worked at the bank longer than any other employee, 40 years.
“I started as a ' teller and bookkeeper. Back then, everybody learned everything. I worked at the teller window. . . that’s when we had cages and bars up on the window,” Mrs. Payne recounted in an interview recently.
J. Newbill Miller’s family of Washington is another one that has had strong ties to the bank. His father, Dick Miller, was a cashier at the bank for more than 20 years and served on the board of directors. He unfortunately had to resign when he became allergic to the ink on the paper money and ledger sheets used in the bank.
“It was a solid bank, honest and community owned,” said Newbill Miller, who served on the board of directors in the
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