Bashore Leaves Retirement to Run National Bank Branch
Veteran Orange County banker Kirk Bashore, who retired briefly after his former bank was sold last summer, has been hired to run a new branch of National Bank of Southern California.
Bashore, 60, took over last week as regional vice president of National Bank’s beach cities office in Fountain Valley. He had been president of Huntington National Bank in Huntington Beach.
“I just wasn’t ready to retire,” Bashore said Monday.
Two of his former colleagues, Kent Falk and Walter Con, also have joined National Bank. Falk is a senior credit officer, and Con is a construction loan officer.
The Fountain Valley office is the fifth branch for National Bank, which is the county’s third-largest bank with more than $320 million in loans and other assets. The branch is designed to serve communities from Long Beach to Garden Grove to Huntington Beach.
Bashore said 16 of the 51-member Huntington National staff were let go when the bank was bought by a Missouri corporation and merged with Commercial Center Bank in Santa Ana and Irvine City Bank, a savings and loan, to form First Bank & Trust of California, based in Santa Ana.
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