Headquartered in downtown Wauchula at 106 East Main Street, Wauchula, FL 33873 ((863) 773-4151 / Trust & Wealth Management Direct (941) 624-1988 / Toll-Free (888) 406-2220) with an adjacent drive-thru banking facility at 202 North 6th Avenue (US Highway 17), Wauchula, FL 33873, Crews Bank & Trust (FDIC Certificate #8021, Federal Reserve RSSD ID #595238, Florida Sunbiz Doc# 018085 / parent holding company Crews Banking Corporation Sunbiz Doc# 666034) is Hardee County's flagship state-chartered commercial bank and corporate fiduciary trust institution. Originally founded in Wauchula in 1929 by J.W. Crews Sr. as Wauchula State Bank, the institution unified all four Crews family charter banks under the historic Wauchula charter as Crews Bank & Trust in late 2023. Regulated by the Florida Office of Financial Regulation (OFR) and the FDIC with 0 regulatory enforcement disclosures, the bank is led by Chairman & CEO J.W. 'Jake' Crews IV, Vice Chairman J.W. 'Bill' Crews, Jr., and EVP & DeSoto-Hardee Area President Justin Fussell. Its Trust & Wealth Management Division—staffed by SVP & Senior Trust Officer Rich Emch, VP & Senior Wealth Strategist Christine Hause, Wealth Strategist Kerry Hunter, and Trust Officers Alyson Burch and Kris Bilodeau (alongside on-site Wauchula brokerage representatives Dorothy Jean Girardi, CRD# 2551057, and Clara Durrance Laurent, CRD# 6640374, registered with Osaic Institutions, Inc., Firm CRD# 35371)—provides fee-based fiduciary investment management independent of trading commissions, corporate trustee and successor trustee administration for revocable and irrevocable trusts, 10th Judicial Circuit probate estate settlement, IRA rollover management, complimentary reviews of wills, powers of attorney, and trust instruments, and multi-generational citrus, cattle, and ranchland wealth preservation across Wauchula (33873), Bowling Green (33834), Zolfo Springs (33890), and Ona (33865).