---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-021306"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FMFG"
cik: "0001698022"
company_name: "Farmers & Merchants Bancshares, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-08-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-23T21:24:34.232288+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director John J. Schuster Jr. retires from Farmers and Merchants Bancshares board

## Summary
- John J. Schuster, Jr. retired as director of both the Company and its bank subsidiary effective August 22, 2022.
- Retirement for personal reasons; no disagreement with operations, policies or practices.
- No replacement director named in the filing.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-021306
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FMFG
- cik: 0001698022
- company_name: Farmers & Merchants Bancshares, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-08-25T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698022/000143774922021306/0001437749-22-021306-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698022/000143774922021306/fmfg20220824_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-021306
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-021306.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-021306.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John J. Schuster, Jr. retired as Director at Farmers & Merchants Bancshares, Inc..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Director
  source text: On August 22, 2022, Farmers and Merchants Bank (the “Bank”), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Farmers and Merchants Bancshares, Inc. (the “Company”), received a letter from John J. Schuster, Jr. in which he notified the Bank that he was retiring as a director of the Bank and of the Company for personal reasons.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698022/000143774922021306/0001437749-22-021306-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.