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New bank president brings ag experience to position

Todd Heitschmidt will take the reins Friday as president of Central National Bank, Marion.

For the past six and one-half years, Heitschmidt has been with Western State Bank, Leoti. Four of those years were as bank president.

The Holyrood native graduated from Bushton-Quivira Heights High School, and was a 1990 graduate of Kansas State University with a bachelor of science degree in agriculture economics.

He served as KSU student body president in 1991 while taking graduate classes.

"It was a tough decision to leave Leoti and move to another area," Heitschmidt said, but the decision was based on location.

"We chose to move to Marion because it's closer to my family in Holyrood and my wife's family in Oklahoma," he said.

While a resident of Wichita County, Heitschmidt was president for four years of Wichita County Economic Development organization and was president and a founding member of a Wichita County foundation.

Heitschmidt was familiar with the Central National Bank organization and sees it as an opportunity.

"This is a much larger organization," he said, than the previous one he worked for in Leoti.

Leoti's population is 1,500 and the entire county, Wichita, has about 2,500 residents.

Heitschmidt received extensive agriculture lending experience while at Farm Credit Services of Hutchinson.

He and his family already are feeling right at home in Marion.

Heitschmidt and wife Rae have two children, Timothy, a freshman at Barton County Community College, and Ashley, a seventh grader at Marion Middle School.

Rae is a bookkeeper at the Marion County Record.

"We are very impressed with how helpful this community has been," Heitschmidt said.

The Heitschmidts reside in Marion.

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