BUCYRUS – A familiar face at FC Bank downtown is ending her career at the end of the month.

Bev Daniel, the friendly employee behind the screen of the Electronic Teller Machine (ETM), is retiring July 31– a day before Medicare kicks in – to travel, spend more time with her family, and continue her commitment to community service.

“At the bank, you see a lot more of your customers in and out every day, so it’s definitely a plus,” said Daniel, a customer service agent for the financial institution. “You get to interact with a lot of people.”

Daniel, who lives just six miles west of town, was first hired as a teller in 2014. “I didn’t know much about banking when I started, so it was like trying to teach an old dog new tricks,” she admitted.

Before that, she had wrapped up a 37-year career at the Timken Co., where she worked in the bearing plant, the distribution center, the storeroom, and then in the office as administrative assistant to the plant manager.

Daniel, a Colonel Crawford High School graduate, calls herself a “country girl” at heart. She grew up in nearby Sulphur Springs, where her parents, Max and Anita Spiegel, still live and is a lifelong Crawford County resident.

Her oldest brother, Dennis, is also celebrating his retirement this year, while brother Kelly leads the clan retiring a year-and-a-half ago. The youngest in the Spiegel family – Scott – isn’t quite there yet. He turns the big “6-0” this year.

Daniel serves on the board for the Crawford County Council on Aging and enjoys attending the summer “Music at the Mural” concerts in Bucyrus and other community events. Winter months are relegated to her “obsessive hobby” of scrapbooking.

In fact, she said retirement will be spent compiling scrapbooks for her parents and finishing the ones she has already started for her husband, Marvin “Marv’s” family. The two are also planning a much-anticipated trip to Alaska on a cruise.

In the meantime, Daniel said, her days will be filled looking in on her parents and checking items off her bucket list, including visits to Kelley’s Island, Malabar Farm State Park, and the village of Yellow Springs in Greene County, Ohio.

The list also includes trips to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Frankenmuth, Michigan, and in the spring a stay in Holland, Michigan, for their annual “Tulip Time.”