People News

December 2001

Southeast Missouri

Linda Puchbauer has joined Prudential Financial in Cape Girardeau as a representative.

Tyrone Turner has joined the Hays Agency in Cape Girardeau as a financial representative.

Michael Bender has been promoted to regional bank president at Firstar Bank, based in Farmington.. He will be responsible for the operations of 10 Firstar locations in the region.

Kristie Carner has been named manager of the Bank of America's new facility inside Schnucks in Cape Girardeau.

Torie Young has joined the Farmington Presbyterian Manor in Farmington as director of marketing.

George Blackmon and Mary McEntire have joined Firstar Bank in Farmington as commercial lenders.

Thomas Kearns is the newest member of the board of directors for First State Community Bank's Bonne Terre branch.

Eldon Nattier is general manager of Main Street Furniture in Cape Girardeau.

Jason White has been promoted to district sales manager at McLeod USA Publishing in Cape Girardeau.

Jim Talkington is a new salesman at Blackwell-Baldwin Pontiac, Buick, GMC in Poplar Bluff.

Kris Dowell has been named advertising director of the Southeast Missourian newspaper. Former advertising director Pat Zellmer has become special projects director and publisher of four Rust Communications weeklies: Jackson USA, Scott County Signal, Banner-Press in Marble Hill, and the Missourian-News in Portageville.

Southern Illinois

Gale Shackleton has been hired as assistant auditor of South Pointe Bank in Carbondale.

Beau and Gretchen Purtle have become business partners with Jim and Jeannie Dunning, owners of Dunning Hometown Realty in Herrin.

Angela Boyd has been promoted to sales manager at Old National Bank in Carbondale.

Dianna Rogge is the new assistant project manager at United Science Industries in Woodlawn.

John Kroeger has been hired as project manager at United Science Industries in Woodlawn.

Jennifer Barton has joined the CPA firm of Barnett and Levine in Carbondale as an auditor.

Julie Adams is the nurse practitioner at the new UitiMed Plus Walk-In Clinic in West Frankfort.