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plans. New services were introduced by banks including money market funds, overdraft checking, automatic transfer from savings to checking accounts.

While it was a challenge to other banks, Mr. Leake says that “due to our size, there was almost no effect because we implemented regulations but still maintained the community atmosphere.”

As all this was going on, Thomas Virgil Williams, a farmer and orchardist, who served on the board a total of 30 years, became the 7th president from 1982-1985.

George Kinsey Miller, a farmer, took over as the 8th president from 1985-1994 and “of all the things Mr. Miller had done (in his life), he was proudest of being a farmer,” the Rev. William A. Harrison said at Mr. Miller’s funeral in 1994.

James W. Fletcher III became the ninth president

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