History of Community Service Credit Union
People Helping People – A Great Beginning
The credit union movement has long taken pride in its philosophy, People Helping People. The start of Community Service Credit Union was no different.
The year was 1953; the setting, an office on a prison unit in the small town of Huntsville, Texas. W.H. Gaston, Director of the Texas Prison System, sat down to write a letter to O.B. Ellis, General Manager of the Texas Prison System. In his letter, Gaston documented his concerns about the assignments of salary warrants between fellow employees. Along with his concerns, he proposed a solution to the problem – the development of a credit union. Gaston outlined his proposal, which included farm wardens that would volunteer as agents of the credit union, assign
