[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 67 (Friday, May 22, 1998)]
[Senate]
[Page S5425]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  TRIBUTE TO MS. ROSELLA SCHNAKENBERG

  Mr. ASHCROFT. Mr. President, I rise today to recognize Ms. Rosella 
Schnakenberg, a woman who has served her friends and fellow Missourians 
for more than 50 years. Although this service has transcended 
occupational boundaries, the most prominent way Ms. Schnakenberg, a 
lifelong resident of the Cole Camp community, has benefitted her fellow 
citizens has been to hold a pivotal role at the First Community Bank in 
Ionia, Missouri.
  During her time as an employee of First Community Bank, Ms. 
Schnakenberg has helped customers open accounts, fill out and process 
loan applications, save for the future, balance checkbooks, and cash 
pay checks. In addition to this long list of responsibilities, what is 
remarkable about this versatile employee is that she performs her 
duties with enthusiasm and concern. That attitude has helped propel Ms. 
Schnakenberg from a teller who earned $75 a month to a Vice President 
and Facility Manager, overseeing day-to-day operations of the bank. 
During her lengthy tenure, she has observed the bank change and grow 
from an establishment that applied for deposits by hand and lacked 
indoor plumbing to an institution that functions and flourishes in the 
modern world.
  First Community Bank has not only prospered economically, under Ms. 
Schnakenberg's leadership, it has also benefitted from her research and 
recording of the bank's colorful history. That history includes a 
Depression-era incident when one of the bank managers had cashiers band 
a high-value bill on both sides of the $1 bill stacks.
  Mrs. Schnakenberg has also touched the lives of the people around her 
through the unselfish distribution of her time, such as serving in 
community activities, visiting friends in nursing homes, and playing 
the organ at St. John's Lutheran Church services.
  To honor Ms. Schnakenberg, First Community Bank hosted a reception in 
her honor on Sunday, March 22, 1998, in Ionia, Missouri. It is an honor 
for me to recognize such a fine Missourian and to serve her in the U.S. 
Senate.

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