History

TopMark History

The first meeting of the Lima Public School Employees Federal Credit Union was held at 3:45 p.m. on February 15, 1963, at Lima Senior High.  The following members were elected to the Board of Directors.

Donald H. Miller   -  President

Leelan Rehn        -  Vice President

Walter H. Martin   -  Treasurer

Alice Boyer          -  Secretary

Eleanor French

Harry Gross

Edith Moyer

Roderick Ross

Lynn Whitney

We ended our first year of operation In December 1963 with assets of $4,483.00 & total members of 142.

June 20, 1967:  Lima Public Employees Federal Credit Union changed its name to Limalco Schools Federal Credit Union.  Limalco was short for Lima and Allen County.

January 1990:  Limalco moved from a two-room office located between two homes on East Eureka & Metcalf Street to 1511 N. Main St., Lima
Limalco was almost 3 million in assets.   

April 1996:  Westinghouse EFCU merged with TopMark FCU.  Westinghouse had assets of approximately 2 million in assets.  We kept their office on C Street and this became our first branch office.     

March 2005: TopMark went from a closed charter credit union serving only school employees and their families to a community charter Credit Union serving Allen & Auglaize Counties.

September 2005: Limalco FCU changed our name to TopMark FCU.  We tried to maintain our name to reflect our heritage as a school's credit union using "TopMark" straight from the classroom.

October 2006:   The Shawnee office moved from C Street to our new branch located at 3800 S. Dixie. We had two employees.     

October 1, 2013:  Lima OH Employees Postal Credit Union merged with TopMark FCU.  They were approximately three million in assets.   

March 2017:  TopMark purchased the former Chase Bank in Cridersville, OH

March 2018:   Merged with Beacon Mutual Federal Credit Union. 
Beacon MFCU had approximately 1900 members and 13 million in assets. 

August 2018:  TopMark FCU moved from their Shawnee location to a new Branch in Cridersville, Ohio.  This location was to better serve our Auglaize County members.

June 2019:  TopMark FCU purchased the former Chase Bank at 1045 N. West Street, Lima 

June 2021:  TopMark FCU moved our main office located at 1511 N. Main Street to our new branch at 1045 N. West Street after over 30+ years at their former location.

 

The National Credit Union History