Of
Like Minds
Ann Gore and Benjamin Farley are all
about customer and community service
Joan Harman
A
nn Gore has a degree in music. So, when she was first
approached about taking over a Nationwide agency by
a retiring agent, she was stunned. “I couldn’t read my own
policy,” she recalled. However, believing in Ann, the agent persisted,
and within a month she was fully licensed.
That was 23 years ago. Today, you’ll find Ann in Hinton, West
Virginia, a charming little town along the picturesque banks of the New
River in Summers County.
Ann says the insurance business is thriving despite a declining
economy. Hinton was, at one time, a “railroad town,” and has suffered
the same fate as most such places - as coal and other markets have
waned.