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Darrell Boggs To Retire Friday

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When Darrell Boggs took his first job in banking it was to earn some cash while he studied accounting at the University of Rio Grande. In fact, he never planned for a career in banking and had other plans altogether. Yet, he’s still at it and retiring this week after a lifetime of helping local people achieve their financial goals.

Darrell Boggs

“I honestly didn’t intend to stay in banking. I liked my accounting classes. That work made sense to me but I was tired of asking my parents for money. No young man wants to be dependent on his parents like that so I took a summer job doing something completely different and went to school at night,” he recalled.

When a position in banking became available, he jumped at the chance to work in a finance job where he could continue his education at night and make contacts that would serve him in the future. The year was 1978 and the rest, as they say, is history. He started out as Assistant Branch Manager, working his way up through different positions including Regional Manager and Head of Lending.

Darrell left that job in 2005 and spent six years farming with his dad before resuming his banking career with other banks in the region.

When VCNB was planning to open a loan office in Jackson, VCNB Head of Retail Brenda Doles came knocking. The two had experience working together and she thought he would be a good fit for directing the bank’s entrance to that community. Today he’s the Head of Commercial Lending.

“I have really loved working with Mark and for the company. I couldn’t ask for a better way to wrap up my career,” he said. “I’m thrilled with the staff we’ve developed here. Jackson County needed a good community bank and we’ve proven that time and again with the great customers who have come to us and the bankers that we have attracted to work for us here. I’m really proud of what we’ve built here – the building, the wonderful staff. It’s worked out better than we could have imagined.”

The Oak Hill area resident doesn’t plan to rest on his laurels in retirement. A lifelong farmer, he’s caretaker for a family farm that his parents moved to in 1967. “I plan to keep my cattle and farm as long as I can but I’m looking forward to traveling in the RV too,” he smiled, describing some of the places he and his wife have been with the RV and others he hopes to see.

His wife Marilyn is a retired Oak Hill Elementary School Principal. The couple have two grown children and two young granddaughters who they look forward to spending time with throughout the year rather than just during summer vacation. “We love to take the girls camping and to have them at the farm. We’re talking about getting everyone together for family trips and just look forward to seeing them more, having more time to enjoy our family.”

Will he miss banking? “I’ll miss the people. I’m ready to go but I’ve been fortunate to work with a lot of great people and have a lot of great customers. I’ll miss all the people.”

However, VCNB President Mark Erslan said that Boggs likely won’t be leaving the bank completely. “Given Darrell’s significant contributions to the bank, we’re working on a way for him to stay involved with the bank and enjoy retirement.”

Charlotte McCarty To Retire On New Year’s Eve

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When Charlotte McCarty rings in the new year, she will do so as a retired person. In fact, New Year’s Eve will be her last day on the job after a 26 year career at Vinton County National Bank.

Charlotte McCarty will wrap up her 26 year career at VCNB when she retires on New Year’s Eve.

She began her career as a part time teller, a position that grew into a full time job. She has held a few titles including Head Teller, Branch Service Manager and now Branch Manager. Through it all, she has served the customers of our Wilkesville branch where she has gotten to know scores of people who she says she will miss. “I’m looking forward to retiring but I’ll miss the people a lot. We have customers who I’ll miss. Plus we have some wonderful employees who I’ll miss too,” she said.

Charlotte has worked for the bank for 26 years and has spent most of them with coworker Alice Mccloud who just retired last week.  “We live close enough we can see each other sometimes but it will be strange not seeing her every day,” Charlotte laughed.

She didn’t intend to get into banking. A friend who worked at VCNB called and asked if she would be interested in the job. “I didn’t know anything about banking and wasn’t sure I could even do the job. But I really enjoyed it when I got the hang of things.

One important part of community banking is building relationships with customers and she is especially good at doing that. “The thing about working in a small community is that you get to know almost everyone and they get to know you. It feels good when someone calls and asks for you. It tells you that you’re doing something right – that you’ve built a relationship with that person and they trust you to take care of them,” she explained.

While she says she will miss those human connections, Charlotte looks forward to having free time for the things she enjoys. “I just like the idea of being able to do what I please, when I want to. It will be nice to get into sewing more or to get in the car and go somewhere. I’m hoping to do some gardening and take better care of my flowers. I always have good intentions in the morning and think of all the things I’ll do when I get home after work but sometimes I’m lucky just to make dinner and do dishes. It’s hard to keep up.”

Her husband Denver has been retired for a few years. “It has been hard to get up and leave home on cold, frosty mornings when he gets to stay home,” she laughed. “Now I can stay in or we can go to Amish Country or something. I was up there a while back and did some fun things but I really loved just driving around a looking at things. I hope to do more of that.”

Charlotte and Denver have two grown children and three grandchildren. Denver pastors the Fairview Church of Christ in Christian Union and the couple have been involved in the church for their entire married life. She has taken on many roles including Sunday School teacher and song leader. She also is a talented seamstress who made over 200 masks early in the pandemic and has made special occasion dresses including her daughter’s wedding gown and all the dresses for the bridal party.

“Sometimes I think I might come to really miss working. I like staying busy and I like the people. This has been a good place to work. I couldn’t have asked for a better place to work all these years but I’m glad that I’ll have more time for me.”