Farmers State Bank of Mentone announced in August that Lindy Breeden has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Credit Officer and Mike Walters has been named Senior Vice President and Sales Manager of the bank.
Breeden has over 33 years of banking and lending experience. He is a native of Logansport where he began his career in 1979. He has been with Farmers State Bank since 1989.
He attended Indiana University, a graduate of Purdue Agricultural School, ABA National Commercial Lending and Stonier Graduate School of Banking. He serves as the chairman of the Indiana United Methodist Loan & Savings Ministry, chairman of Trustees of the Mentone United Methodist Church and treasurer of the Tippecanoe Valley Booster Club.
Walters has over 31 years of banking and lending experience.
A native of Somerset, Kentucky, Walters began his career there in 1981. He moved to Columbia City, Indiana in 1987 with the Farm Credit System. In 2001 he joined the National City Corporation as vice president community banking and agricultural banker. Walters is a graduate of Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture.
Greg Maxwell, President of Farmers State Bank, said, “These changes are proper recognition of the contribution each of these gentlemen have made, and continue to make, for the success and growth of Farmers State Bank.”
Farmers State Bank is a $125 million dollar bank and has been locally owned and operated in Kosciusko County since 1892. Farmers State Bank has branches in Mentone, Warsaw, Leesburg and Syracuse.
