Debra Friesen, a teller in the Lamesa Branch of the State National Bank, has just been named the bank’s Employee of the Year.
“When my name was called I was in shock. It was just an honor to be nominated,” Friesen said. “It made me feel good.”
Her co-workers agreed on the choice. “They were nearly as excited as I was,” Fresen said.
Friesen is barely 21 years old and when she started working at the bank two years ago it was the first job she had ever had, unless you count helping her dad with the cotton harvest.
She graduated from Klondike High ...