FCS Financial: One Hundred Years July 2016 | Page 39

Representatives from associations around
the state await fairgoers in Sedalia.
The Missouri mules on the front of this
brochure reminded everyone of their roots.

Bob Pillen’s office, a branch of the St. Charles (Valley) PCA, was
in the front room of a house owned by a lady who rented the room
and worked as the secretary. It consisted of one table, one desk, one
file cabinet, three chairs, and an old wood stove. His office hours
were from 9 a.m. to noon and Billy still remembers arriving early in
the dead of winter before the stove fire was lit and the office was still
bone-chilling cold. “Bob Pillen was always good to me,” he said. “He
had a boy about the same age as me and I guess he felt sorry for me.
He just took an interest in me.”

Some of the 1,750 members
of the Warrensburg PCA who
attended the 1953 annual
meeting where they celebrated
becoming debt free and entirely
member owned.

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