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Exhibit 24

                              POWER OF ATTORNEY
                    DIRECTORS OF SECURITY BANC CORPORATION

Know all men by these presents that each person whose name is signed below has
made, constituted and appointed, and by this instrument does make, constitute
and appoint Harry O. Egger or J. William Stapleton, or either one of them
acting alone, his true and lawful attorney with full power of substitution and
resubstitution to affix for him and in his name, place and stead, as
attorney-in-fact, his signature as director or officer, or both, of Security
Banc Corporation, an Ohio corporation (the "Company"), to a Registration
Statement on Form S-4 or other form registering under the Securities Act of
1933, common stock to be issued in connection with the acquisition of CitNat
Bancorp, Inc. by the Statement, and to any and all applications and other
documents pertaining thereto, giving and granting to such attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and perform every act and thing whatsoever necessary
to be done in the premises, as fully as he might or could do if personally
present, and hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact or
any such substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Power of Attorney has been signed at Springfield,
Ohio, this 18 day of June, 1996.


/s/ Larry D. Ewald
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Larry D. Ewald

/s/ Richard E. Kramer
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Richard E. Kramer

/s/ Larry E. Kaffenbarger
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Larry E. Kaffenbarger

/s/ Jane N. Scarff
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Jane N. Scarff

/s/ W. Dean Sweet
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W. Dean Sweet

/s/ Thomas J. Veakauf
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Thomas J. Veakauf

/s/ Chester L. Walthall
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Chester L. Walthall