Kenneth Eugene Stout was born October 15, 1947 to Willis E. and Evelyn J. Hull Stout
  in Palo Alto, California. The family moved in 1948 to Denver and in 1952 Willis and his
  father purchased the Beverly State Bank in Beverly, Kansas. In 1956 Willis sold the Beverly
  Bank and purchased the First National Bank in Goodland. Ken graduated from Sherman County
  High School in 1965. He attended Kansas State University for two years. In 1967 he was
  drafted for the Vietnam War. He spent four years in the U.S. Navy and obtained the rank of
  second class petty officer as a radioman. He spent two years in San Diego and two years in
  Wiahiawa, Hawaii. Upon discharge from the Navy, Ken entered Fort Hays State College in Hays.
  He started his banking career by working and living in Wakeeny, commuting to Hays for 
  school. He graduated in 1973.
       After graduating he married Kathleen Seuser. Ken then accepted a position with the
  U.S. Treasury as a National Bank Examiner stationed in Cedar Falls, Iowa. In 1975 he had
  a bicycle accident which almost took his life. It was during this month-long stay in the
  hospital that the Citizens State Bank of Woodbine came for sale. Willis and an associate
  negotiated a sales price on behalf of Ken. After much study and thought, Ken decided to
  leave the Treasury Department and buy controlling interest in the Woodbine bank. Upon
  arrival and examination, he found a very nice small bank and town. Total assets at that
  time were about one million dollars. Today's assets total 5 million.
       Over the last few years Ken has become involved in many varied activities. Some of 
  these include photography, flying, sailing, Lions Club and professional organizations. He
  sits on the Woodbine City Council, the Kansas Bankers Association agricultural committee
  and the KBA insurance committee. He has won many sail boat regattas and is nationally
  ranked aerobatic competitor. Recently he won the World's Fair Expo 86 competiton in 
  Vancouver, Canada. Additionally he is a certified national aerobatic competition judge.
  In 1983 Ken's father passed away and for a time Ken managed his father's bank for his 
  mother until she was able to sell the bank. Mrs. Stout still resides in Goodland. In
  1983 Ken and Kathy divorced. Ken has one brother, James (Rusty) Stout, who resides in Mt.
  Vernon, Iowa with his wife and son. Ken resides in the house formerly owned by Lillie
  Shank. At present Ken continues to be president of the Citizens State Bank of Woodbine
  and is co-founder of Stout and Deines, Inc., a bank management firm which does consulting
  and provides management in all areas of banking.  
               
  Source: Woodbine, Kansas Centennial, 1887 - 1987, 
          Woodbine through the years pg. 124