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Barbara Hollingsworth announced her retirement as Community Bank President of Elgin’s Cadence Bank, ending her 38-year career in banking as a professional lending specialist.
Hollingsworth built her career catering to the needs of Elgin and the other local communities she served by providing valuable services and creating long-lasting relationships along the way.
She will miss seeing everyone as she does now, Hollingsworth said.
The local professional grew up in Abilene, Texas, and moved to Dallas in 1986 where she excelled as a mortgage loan officer for CTX Mortgage and met the love of her life, Tommy. Hollinsworth received numerous production awards during her time there before moving to Elgin in 2000, working in the city’s Prosperity bank from 2005 through 2019, when she came to work in her present position with Cadence Bank.
Hollingsworth started by preparing loans on an IBM electric typewriter and went on to survive the savings and loan collapse.
Over her career Hollingsworth served as Board member, Vice-Chair and then Chairman of The Elgin Chamber of Commerce, Austin HBA Associate Council Chairperson and Hospitality Chair Austin HBA WC. She was a member or affiliate member of The Manor Chamber, ABOR, NAPMW and Austin HBA, Austin HBA WC, Austin HBA Associate and CREW in Austin. She volunteered for the City of Elgin Business Retention and Recruitment Committees, Old Oak Cliff home tour, Paint the Town, Austin WC HBA, Women’s Build Habitat Home and the YMCA.
She and Tommy have two grandkids that live in San Antonio, Kendall and Kaiser. She says she is under new management now, and anyone with questions about her schedule can check with her grandkids.
A reception will be held in her honor Sept. 28 at The Owl Wine Bar and Home Goods Store from 4 to 6 p.m., 106 N. Main St. Food will be served, and they invite their neighbors to join in and congratulate Barbara on her life’s long work and this new chapter of her life.
