In loving memory of
G. Keith Cashman
January 15, 2001
Mr. Cashman was a graduate of West Pike High School. He graduated with highest honors from Army Finance School, Fort Knox, Kentucky. He was also a graduate of the Institute for Financial Education, the Executive Development School of the University of Southern California, and the Illinois League Career Development School at the University of Illinois. Cashman served in World War II and the Korean Conflict.
Cashman was involved in the savings and loan industry for thirty-three years. He joined Quincy Peoples Savings and Loan in 1957 as administrative assistant to the president. He became president and chief executive officer in 1969. Cashman served as president of the Illinois Savings and Loan League from 1977-1978, and spent seven years on its Board of Directors. While on the Board he directed the League's 35 committees and helped guide the role of the savings and loan association as the single largest source of home loans in the state. He also worked to encourage legislation favorable to the thrift business and the saving and borrowing customer.
Cashman helped found Quincy's Business District Development and Redevelopment Commission of which he was a member. Between 1971 and 1974, he oversaw a complete expansion and redesign of Quincy Peoples Savings and Loan, which today serves as Quincy's City Hall. "It is rare that a day goes by without some visitor to our City Hall here in Quincy remarking on the architectural beauty of the building", Mayor Scholz said in a proclamation dated August 6, 1999. On August 16, 1999, Mayor Scholz recognized Mr. Cashman's leadership and many years of service to Quincy with the presentation of a plaque, a replica of which hangs in City Hall.
An accomplished athlete, Mr. Cashman was a four-year basketball, baseball and track letterman in high school, serving as team captain of each sport. He averaged twenty points a game in basketball and placed third and fifth at the state track meet in the pole vault and high jump. After high school, he was offered a professional baseball contract. Mr Cashman was an avid golfer, passing his love for the game to his children and grandchildren.
Survivors also include two sons, Judge Dennis Keith Cashman and his wife, Marianne, and J. Devin Cashman and his wife Anne, of Quincy; three daughters, Mrs. Gary (Debby) Birch, Mrs. Thomas (Deelite) Ernst and Mrs. Joseph (Denette) Kuhlman, all of Quincy; ten grandchildren, Mrs. Mark (Kristin) Stapleton of University City, MO, Mr. Andrew
Keith Cashman of Minneapolis, MN, Lance and Blake Birch, Drew and Elizabeth Ernst, Katie and J. D. Cashman, and Jake and Kaleigh Kuhlman, all of Quincy; and one great grandson Ben Stapleton of University City, MO.
Memorials may be made to the Quincy Foundation for Quality Education in memory of G. Keith Cashman.