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 Sydney "Bud" McGrew (Tennessee Bankers Association photo) [Click to enlarge] |
McGrew died Sunday at Glen Oaks Convalescent Center.
"Bedford County is going to sadly miss Bud," said County Mayor Eugene Ray this morning. "He has contributed a great deal to our community."
In addition to being a long-time banker and founder of First Community Bank of Bedford County, McGrew was active in Bedford County Arts Council and the Fly Arts Center. Ray said McGrew was active and helpful in the ongoing effort to bring a satellite campus of Middle Tennessee State University to Shelbyville.
McGrew was on the board of directors of Bethsalem Chapel and was a former elder of the Presbyterian Church.
"Bud McGrew loved this bank and everyone associated with it -- employees, shareholders, customers," said First Community CEO Donna Stone. "He called us family and treated us as family -- crying with us during difficult times, rejoicing with the accomplishment of our children at graduations, weddings, or births, and always mentoring us to help each be the best we could be. Bud shaped the careers of bankers all across the southeast through his involvement in the banking schools.
"It's not uncommon at all to tell someone which bank you work for, and they reply -- 'Oh, that's Bud McGrew's bank -- I had him as a teacher at LSU.' There are so many in this community that Bud helped get started in business or made a loan for their first auto or home. He touched so many lives. We've all lost a dear friend -- one who will be missed for years to come."
Survivors include his wife, Evelyn Taylor McGrew; a daughter, Kate McGrew Canady of Monacca, Va.; a stepson, Andy Rambo; three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to the Bethsalem Chapel and the Arts Council.
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It is an inevitable fact of life, but Bud's passing is truly sad news. Both he and Evelyn have helped us immeasurably over the years.
I hope there will be those who will step in to fill the void created by such a loss. It will take more than one, I am sure.
Our best to Evelyn and family.
What a marvelous legacy Mr. McGrew leaves behind. Banks like FCB are a dying breed.
What a blessing to have known Bud McGrew. Our loss is heaven's gain.
The first time I met Mr. McGrew, was when People Bank was on the square. Where Dixie Hotel used to be. Mr. McGrew was a loan officer at that time. You couldn't asked for anyone any nicer. If he was in his suit or in his farm clothes he was the same.
I am so sorry to hear of the lost, to his wife and famiy. Bedford County has lost a great businessman and friend.
My Sympathy goes to his wife & family.
Diane G. Pope
George R. Belk
Other than my dad, Bud McGrew was my very first hero in life. Way back in the early 1950s. My uncle seemed as huge as the sky to me. I learned so much from him. Nothing in his attitudes or behavior in life ever disappointed me. Anything I ever asked of him he gave me (so I tried not to ask too much). I know this kind of thing has been said since time immemorial, but it really seems to me the world is less now without him. Not that many of his caliber came before him, and there won't be that many to come after. I'll miss him for the rest of my life. My sincerest sympathies to his beautiful wife.
Peyton Brien