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 By  Staff Reports Published 
12:47 pm Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Local man elected to Community Spirit Bank Board

By Staff
The board of Directors of Community Spirit Bank is pleased to announce that David. R. Grissom has been selected and elected to serve on the bank's board to represent the Russellville area.
David is the son of the late Robert R. Grissom, and Judy Keeton Grissom and is married to Melissa Fuller Grissom, an art teacher in the Russellville School system, and they have a daughter, Kate.
Grissom is a graduate of the University of North Alabama, with a bachelor's of science degree in marketing. He is President of the Alabama Gun and Pawn, Inc. in Russellville, which has six locations in four northwest Alabama counties.
For several years, David served on the Community Spirit Bank Advisory Board, representing the Russellville office.
"It is with great pleasure that we welcome David to the Bank's Directorate," Board Chairman Billy Bolton said. "David has done an outstanding job on our advisory board over a period of years, and we look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with him. No doubt he will represent the Russellville area on our board in an outstanding manner and will be able to enhance our board's decision capabilities in all matters coming before our directorate."
Grissom added that he was grateful for the opportunity.
"I would like to thank Mr. Bolton and the Board of Directors of Community Spirit Bank for the confidence they have placed in me," he said. "I look forward to serving the Bank in this new capacity and would like to invite all of my friends, family and business associates to visit any Community Spirit office and make Community Spirit Bank your bank."
David is a lifetime member of Russellville Masonic Lodge No. 371, a 32nd Degree Mason, and a member of Cahaba Shrine in Huntsville, as well as a member of the Franklin County Shrine Club.
He is a member of Rockwood Baptist Church, and he enjoys fishing, hunting and boating.
-from staff reports

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