MUNSTER – Citizens Financial Bank has announced the retirement of Jeff Stur as senior vice president of retail loan management after 40 years.

Stur joined the bank in 1972 as a loan trainee. He spent his entire career in lending.

“We have been honored and grateful, as well as deeply appreciative of the 40 years of dedicated service Jeff has given Citizens and our community,” said Daryl D. Pomranke, president and CEO. “It is a rare, yet exciting occurrence to have an employee so committed to a company’s corporate vision that they chose to spend an entire career with them.”