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Monday, January 16, 2017
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Anderson celebrates 35 years of banking in Howe Raised in a working class family and influenced by a mother that took immense pride in her career, Anna Anderson followed in those footsteps and recently passed a 35year milestone at the local bank in Howe. Seeing the bank through three different names and ownership groups, through the transition of paper accounting to computerized transactions, Anderson has remained the constant on the corner of Downtown Howe. A 1979 graduate of Howe High School, then Anna Thornhill was seeking what would be her career and worked some part-time jobs at a local hospital and then with the City of Howe as the municipal court clerk. While a city employee in 1980, Howe State Bank was robbed and she worked with the police department and FBI through City Hall with the banking information. In 1981, she learned that a teller position was open at Howe State Bank and she landed the job in April of that year.
Anna Anderson herself. In 2006, she became vice president and branch manager of Independent Bank of Howe. There has been a plethora of changes in the banking industry in the last 35 years and Anderson now is proud to say that she was in banking before computers.
“I remember when we got the first little bitty screen that kept some balances and account numbers.” “I just took the job until I decided said Anderson. “Then we got the what I wanted to do.” said huge monitors that looked like TVs Anderson. “I had started down the and they still were for balancing nursing career path because that’s internally. We still did everything what my mom said I needed to by hand. We filed every check by do. But it didn’t take long for me hand every day. There were trays to figure out what I wanted to do. of checks that everyone in town I wanted to stay here.” wrote and we had to file them all.” Anderson went from being a teller to the loan department to the operations side with new accounts. Heading up the ladder, Anderson became the loan secretary for Bob Williams for 15 years until becoming a loan officer
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In 1991, before the internet age, the local Howe bank had 19 employees. Automation has eliminated 13 of those positions as there are six full-time employees at the Howe branch which includes continued on page 3
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