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Building from Scratch

Independent Banker

She grew up in a small town in Eastern Tennessee. She got married to a Navy man and moved with him to Kodiak, Alaska, where she had a son. To start a bank in the ’80s was not an easy task, but after a two and half year process, Shirley Nelson did it and personally sold the majority of the stock to capitalize the bank,” says C.

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