Kim Sydenstricker has been selected to receive the Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce’s Colonel C. R. Stribling Community Service Award, the Chamber’s top annual honor recognizing exemplary service …
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Kim Sydenstricker has been selected to receive the Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce’s Colonel C. R. Stribling Community Service Award, the Chamber’s top annual honor recognizing exemplary service to the Mexico community over an extended period. She will be recognized at the Chamber’s Annual Dinner on February 5, 2027, at the Audrain County 4-H Center.
Service takes many forms for Kim: leadership on community boards, support for schools and youth organizations, and quiet acts of kindness that rarely receive public attention.
Kim’s community involvement includes serving as past president of the Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce, vice president of Progress Mexico, board member with The Oaks, and a Handi-Shop capital campaign and foundation board member. She also served on the Miss Missouri Board as Little Sister Coordinator and supports local students and families as a Bright Futures business partner.
A lifelong supporter of FFA and 4-H, she enjoys helping youth in these organizations develop their leadership potential. Kim has served as an Audrain County Clover Kids leader and is a new member of the Hart Career Center agriculture advisory committee. At Mexico First Presbyterian Church, her service has included roles as deacon, elder, trustee, nominating committee chair, and staff committee co-chair.
Kim’s professional work also creates opportunities for support and service. As community outreach manager for Sydenstricker Nobbe Partners, she serves 42 locations across Missouri, Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania. She manages SNP Cares, which provides financial support to agricultural organizations, as well as local events, schools, and churches within the company’s footprint. She has been with Sydenstricker since 2008, though her unofficial role as “Eddie’s keeper” dates back much further. Her father, Eddie, is rarely seen without her — and keeping him in line may be her longest-running community service project.
Before joining the family business, Kim spent 15 years in education, including teaching first and third grades at McMillan and Hawthorne elementary schools. Her experience also includes writing and piloting an elementary foreign language curriculum in Omaha, Nebraska; teaching at a bilingual school in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and serving as a reading tutor, substitute teacher, and Boy Scout leader at St. Francis Cathedral School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She earned her undergraduate degree in elementary education with a minor in Spanish from William Woods University and a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of Missouri. Kim is a Class of 1981 Bulldog alumna of Mexico High School.
Beyond her professional accomplishments and volunteer leadership, Kim is known for her warmth, dependability, and willingness to help without seeking recognition. Her support often happens quietly, through personal connections and practical acts of kindness. In one instance, she helped a family facing a language barrier secure housing, enroll their children in school, and access other support as they settled into the community.
Those everyday actions reflect the same commitment she brings to larger community efforts: noticing a need, making a connection, and following through.
Kim’s family includes her son, Chase Monte, and daughter-in-law, Margo. She is looking forward to welcoming her first grandchild, a boy, in April. Also holding a special place in the family is Kim’s favorite four-legged friend, her labrador Tucker.
The Annual Dinner will also recognize and celebrate additional award recipients:
The social begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. For information about purchasing tickets or sponsoring a table, contact the Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce.
