Hoel Loses Car in Colorado Twister

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Last Thursday’s devastating tornado and hail storm which hit the nearby community of Windsor had two credit union victims: Robert Hoel, the retired head of the Filene Research Institute, who lost his car and an old Norlarco Credit Union branch, now part of Public Service CU, which was reopened for business today after it lost power and had facility damage.

“My wife and I were in a restaurant at the time the tornado hit and we could see the wrecked cars in the parking lot but we did not know it was a tornado destroying homes a mile away,” said Hoel, a Filene Fellow who has been serving as a director of Public Service CU since March following the NCUA-engineered purchase of Norlarco.