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Darrell L Achenbach, 38, is Named 

 To Succeed John H. Kelker as Manager 

 Of Country Mutual Fire Company 



IIaRRELL L. ACHENBACH will be- 

 come manager of Country Mutual 

 Fire company Jan. 1. He will succeed 

 John H. Kelker, who is retiring under 

 the lAA retirement plan at the close of 

 1948 after 25 years of service. 



Achenbach comes from near Taylor- 

 ville, Christian county. He was born 

 Jan. 29, 1910, and reared on the farm 

 originally owned by his grandfather. 

 Achenbach and his only brother, Dallas, 

 now own the 160-acre homestead. 



Achenbach's father, William, was a 

 Christian county farmer all his life. He 

 was active in the Farm Bureau movement, 

 having served at one time as vice- 

 president of the Christian County Farm 

 Bureau. 



Educated in country school and Taylor- 

 ville high school, Achenbach farmed with 

 his father for a year. He then worked as 

 station clerk of Central Illinois Public 

 Service company's generating station at 



Kincaid. After a year and a half, he went 

 to Kincaid Trust and Savings bank as 

 assistant cashier. The bank did not re- 

 open after the bank moratorium in 1933. 



In autumn of that year, the Federal 

 Intermediate Credit Bank of St. Louis, 

 employed Achenbach as a credit examiner 

 and field representative. 



He began working for the Production 

 Credit Corporation of St. Louis in Janu- 

 ary, 1936. This, in effect, was a transfer, 

 as the bank and corporation are both 

 units of the Farm Credit Administration. 

 He was first a credit analyst in the St. 

 Louis office; then an association super- 

 visor for the state of Illinois, and later, 

 as the organization grew, for the southern 

 half of the state. . ' 



After eight years, Achenbach became 

 secretary-treasurer of the Decatur Pro- 

 duction Credit Association in Decatur. 

 During 1945, because of the war-time 

 manpower shortage, he filled the same 

 office for the Jacksonville association. 



Achenbach left Decatur in August, 

 1 946, to become secretary-treasurer of the 

 Fox Valiey-Joliet Production Credit Asso- 

 ciation in Geneva. 



In December, 1933, Darrell Achenbach 

 married Marguerite McWard, a farm girl 

 of Christian county, who taught in coun- 

 tiy schools of that area. The Achenbachs 

 have a daughter, Kay Ellen, 1 1 , and a 

 son, Billy, 6. 



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