Obituaries

Pembroke, who had led the association since 2015, died Monday at age 55. Jerry Saalsaa, the organization's senior vice president and chief administrative officer, has been interim CEO since July and will continue in that role.

Neil Ray Sommers, who was 74, was succeeded by Bret Fisher, Achieve's director of operations the past three years.

Corrigan thrived on crisis situations, a colleague said. He received plenty of practice in 25 years at the Fed and another two decades at Goldman Sachs.

Ryan, the chief executive of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors since 2011, died unexpectedly Monday night at his home in Washington. He played a critical role in representing states’ interests in some of the most important banking policy debates of recent decades.

John D. "Jerry" Hawke had already established himself as a preeminent banking lawyer when he took the helm of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 1998. Hawke, who died Monday, ran the agency for six years and issued a controversial regulation shielding national banks from state regulatory oversight.

Stopera retired in 2019 after 39 years at Capital Communications Federal Credit Union in Albany, New York. In 2003, the credit union founded the CAP COM Cares Foundation, which donated about $4 million and over 30,000 volunteer hours to families in the region.

Calvin Philips led the credit union – which today operates as Neighborhood CU – from 1958 until he retired in 1988, and remained active on its board long after his retirement.

Rex Johnson, who helped found the New Jersey credit union in 1980, was 77.

Patricia Wesenberg spent more than two decades at the Wisconsin-based institution. She retired in October to deal with health issues.

The industry legend turned around a struggling Minneapolis company and even escaped a kidnapping to build the firm that is now the nation’s fifth-largest bank.