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Robert Richard Lank
(1847-1931)
Julia Ann Graham
(1850-1936)
Benjamin Franklin Hayman
(1844-1908)
Elizabeth Mary Hester Parsons
(1847-1941)
Albert Jackson Lank
(1874-1968/0010)
"Lizzie" Elizabeth Estelle Hayman
(1878-1959)

William Albert Lank
(1907-1993)

 

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Spouses/Children:
"Lib" Mary Elizabeth Hollis

William Albert Lank

  • Born: Dec 29, 1907, Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware
  • Marriage: "Lib" Mary Elizabeth Hollis on Sep 8, 1927
  • Died: May 24, 1993 at age 85
  • Buried: Seaford Odd Fellows Cmtry

bullet   Cause of his death was heart failure.

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bullet  General Notes:

He graduated from Seaford HS and attended Univ. of Delaware for two years, majoring in pre-law. Mr. Lank began his banking career with the Bank of Delaware in Wilmington from 1927-29. From 1929-1939 he was employed by the Comptroller of the Currency (US Treasury Dept.) in Wash., D.C. and Philadelphia as a federal bank examiner. In November 1939 he moved to Bloomsburg and began a career with the former Farmers National Bank of Bloomsburg (Organized 1891). He was elected president of the town bank in 1949, serving until 1964 when he became senior vice president and director of United Penn Bank, whose formation from several PA banks was the result of Mr. Lank's efforts. He retired in 1972.
He served in WWII as Lt/jg in USNR, stationed in San Francisco--released in 1945.
He was President of the Bloomsburg State College Board of Trustees. See http://library.bloomu.edu/Archives/125/saturday.htm for a picture taken in 1964, in a 125th anniversary ceremony of BSC in which the keys to the two new women's dormitories, East and West Halls, were presented for safekeeping to William Lank, President of the BSC Board of Trustees.
He was a member of First Presbyterian Church, Bloomsburg, serving on the church's board of trustees for nine years and as treasurer for six years. He was a member of Washington Lodge 265 F&AM and the Bloomsburg Royal Arch Chapter 218, Caldwell Consistory, for more than 50 years, serving on the finance and executive committees for many years.
He was a member of the Irem Temple Shrine, Wilkes-Barre and was crowned a 33rd degree mason in 1962. He was a member of the Bloomsburg Hospital board of directors, serving for 11 years, five of them as president. He was a former director of the Columbia County United Way and served as drive chairman in 1960; served on the board of directors of the Salvation Army for 12 years and was a former treasurer of the Columbia County Girl Scouts Council. He acted as financial adviser to the Town of Bloomsburg and Bloomsburg school board on many occasions. He served as president of the PA Bankers Assoc. in 1961-1962.
Funeral was held at the Kriner Funeral Home in Bloomsburg with Rev. Derwood A. Strunk of Wesley UMC officiating (no viewing). Burial in Seaford Odd Fellows Cemetery.


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William married "Lib" Mary Elizabeth Hollis, daughter of Dr. Charles Merle Hollis and "Minnie" Mary A. Kinney, on Sep 8, 1927. ("Lib" Mary Elizabeth Hollis was born on Nov 11, 1907, died on Jul 6, 1984 and was buried in Seaford Odd Fellows Cmtry.)




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