Elmer Polite
Brentwood-based LifePoint Health has named Elmer Polite CFO of its Eastern Division of hospitals. Polite (pictured) will oversee financial operations for 26 hospital campuses located in Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia.
Polite brings more than a decade of financial and operational leadership to LifePoint. Prior to joining LifePoint, Polite served as the chief financial executive of the Midlands market for Prisma Health in Columbia, South Carolina. Before Prisma Health, he held positions as the system chief financial officer and chief staffing officer of HCA’s Macon market, and also as the CFO of the Georgia market for Community Health Systems.
First Farmers and Merchants Bank has named Joseph E. Yaroszewski as its new senior credit officer.
Yaroszewski starts the new role with more than 20 years of banking experience managing the credit risk for the Columbia-based bank s loan portfolio. First Farmers is a community bank with strong ties to its local neighborhoods, and I couldn t be more thrilled to join such a great team, Yaroszewski said. I look forward to supporting our lenders and serving customers from each of our locations in Middle Tennessee.
Yaroszewski will also be responsible for working closely with the bank’s lending team, credit analysts and special asset areas, the company said in a statement issued to The Daily Herald.
Sylvia Roper Custer
NEWPORT NEWS Sylvia Roper Custer passed away Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in the comfort of her home surrounded by her beloved family after a surprising and short battle with cancer.
Sylvia was the foundation of fellowship for her family and loved bringing people together to celebrate holidays and special events. A lifelong resident of Newport News and graduate of Warwick High School, Longwood College and Virginia Tech MBA program, Sylvia was a school teacher at Hampton High School and Ferguson High School for over 30 years. After retiring from the public school system, Sylvia went on to develop college level curriculum programs at Thomas Nelson Community College.
HAMPTON Paul Aretus Fleming, 84, died Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, after several years of failing health.
He retired under the Virginia Retirement System after 31 years of service in the public school system. He had been a classroom teacher and assistant principal at Waterman Elementary School in Harrisonburg in the early 1960s and relocated to Hampton in 1965 to become principal of the former Fort Monroe Elementary School. When that school closed in 1979, he was transferred to be principal of Robert E. Lee Elementary School, where he worked until retirement in 1991.
Paul was born and grew up in Paddleton County, West Virginia, and was the son of the late Marvin A. Fleming and Willia Gladys Rexrode Fleming. He graduated from Shepherd College (now Shepherd University) at Shepherdstown, West Virginia, in 1956 and received a master’s degree at Madison College (now JMU) in 1963.