"Gregg still has the little blue passbook from when the account was opened with an initial deposit of $6.11. Her father, Gilbert, a farmer who grew corn, wheat and hay, was a Savings Bank customer and wanted his only daughter to learn thrift.(As seen in the supermarket tabloid The Examiner.)
'That's what he always taught us: to stay out of debt and save our money and not buy anything until we had the money to pay for it,' Gregg said in an interview."
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Banking on Success
I like reading stories like this: "100-year-old woman has bank account dating to 1913".
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