POWER OF ATTORNEY


Know by all these presents, that the undersigned director (or officer) of
Franklin Financial Services Corporation (the "Company") hereby
constitutes and appoints each of AMANDA M. DUCEY - Corporate
Secretary, and ZOE R. CLAYTON, Assistant Corporate Secretary, signing
singly, the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:


(1) prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf,
 and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form
 ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or
appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make
electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC;


(2) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer and/or Director of the Company, Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance
with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules
thereunder, and other forms or reports the undersigned may be required to file
 in connection with the undersigned's ownership, acquisition, or disposition of
securities of the Company;


(3) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5,
 or other form or report, and timely file such form or report with the SEC and
any stock exchange or similar authority; and


(4) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
 in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf
 of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form
 and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may
approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.


The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might
orcould do it personally present, with full power of substitution or
revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact,
or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do
or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights
and powers herein granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of
the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of
 the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.  The undersigned further acknowledges
 that it is the undersigned's express intent that the Power of Attorney shall
 not create a fiduciary relationship between the attorney-in-fact
and the undersigned.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with
respect to the undersigned'sholdings of and transactions in securities
 issued by the Company, unless earlierrevoking by the undersigned
 in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to
be executed as of this 15th day of January, 2025.




						/s/Craig W. Best