Herman Styles is an owner and partner in the Coltons Restaurant of Poplar Bluff, Missouri and seven other Coltons restaurants in Missouri and Illinois.
He attended the University of Arkansas, majoring in Architecture; but, after one year, joined the United States Marine Corps and served from 1966 to 1970. He started his career in restaurants in 1972 after working a couple of years as a machinist with the Cotton Belt railroad.
Styles currently serves as a director on the board of Missouri Employers Mutual Insurance Company, the board of Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, the board of the Missouri Restaurant Association (President of the association in 2018), Missouri Judicial Performance Review Committee. the local board of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the ERASE Foundation, a faith based organization serving Southeast Missouri in mostly rural areas of high minority population and limited job opportunities. The foundation funds educational and personal development programs as well as field trips to expose kids to the larger world we live in.
He is a past board member of the Mercantile Bank of Poplar Bluff, Poplar Bluff Chamber of Commerce and past president of the Three Rivers College Booster Club. His service on many committees for the betterment of the Poplar Bluff community culminated in 2019 when he was named Poplar Bluff Citizen of the Year.
Styles and his wife, Jill, a retired school nurse, have been married for 39 years and have two children, Ben and Caroline, three granddaughters and 2 great-grandchildren. His extended family includes more than 12,000 past or current employees of which he is most proud.
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