First State Bank announces new CEO, is under new ownership

First State Bank of Abilene announced in a news release on November 27, 2021 that it has been acquired by Sundip Patel and Sanat Patel, brothers who became the bank's new owners effective Nov. 16, 2021. Despite the original FSB branch in Menard, the news release was not provided to The Menard News at the time. According to the Abilene Reporter-News, “The customer’s peace-of-mind i...