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October 23.2013
Wells Fargo Manager Retires
Laverne Hampton
served customers
for 49 years
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The com m unity said goodbye
to Laverne Hampton last week,
who retired after a 49-year career
at W ells Fargo bank in northeast
Portland.
Hampton was a service manager
at the Wells Fargo branch at 5730
N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
She first went to work as bank teller
in 1964 at the urging of her husband,
Adron.
“It was in the neighborhood and
I knew the area,” she said.
Hampton also worked as an as­
sistant service manager and as a
branch manager for Wells Fargo at
various times and at other Portland
locations during her career.
Hampton transferred to the MLK
branch in the 1970s, where she be­
came well known in the community.
She knew some of her adult custom­
ers since they were children.
“I liked dealing what people and
solving problems and the interac­
tion. It kept me going,” Hampton
said.
Her former manager, Nick Davis,
worked with Hampton for the last
year she was at Wells Fargo.
“She knows everyone in this
photo by
M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
Laverne Hampton retires after a 49-year career with Wells Fargo
bank.
neighborhood by name and their
families,” Davis said. “She truly
cared about her customers. She got
to know them on a personal level.”.
One such person was Teletha
Benjamin of Portland, who was a
customer of Hampton’s for all 49
years.
“She was there for a long time,
which gives me confidence. I don’t
think anyone would stay long at an
organization as an employee if they
weren’t satisfied with it,” said Ben­
jamin. “It indicates to me that she
believed in what she does, that she
wanted to be there and assist other
people.”
Hampton plans to remain in the
Portland area. Her husband is al­
ready retired.
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