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Weather
WEATHER OUTLOOK
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BITTERLY COLD
Today
High: 46 Low: 13
Tomorrow
BEGINNING THE STRETCH RUN
Holiday basketball tournaments signal start of
crunch time for area teams
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Christinas shifts just part of job for some
BY STEVE NASH
BROWNWOOD BULLETIN
Steve, nash @ brownwoodbu lletin.com
Veteran sheriff’s deputy Valton Posey
recalled an unusually eventful Christmas
Day in the early 1980s.
“I got sent to the Shady Shores area to
work a burglary and ended up working
13 burglaries," Posey said. “The lake was
frozen over and the wind was blowing out
of the north. It was miserable — cold.”
Most of the burglarized houses were va-
cant because the owners lived out of town
and used them as summer houses, so they
had no heat.
And the alleged burglar? Lanny Bush.
Bush’s name has been known to law
enforcement officials for many years, and
the public now knows him as the former
boyfriend of murder victim Michele Reiter.
Bush is charged with online impersonation
in connection with Reiter’s disappearance
and death.
“That’s my big Christmas Day memory
as a deputy sheriff,” Posey said.
Most Christmas Day shifts are not that
eventful for law enforcement officers who
STEVE NASH | BROWNWOOD BULLETIN
Christmas Day will be another day of work for many first
SEE JOBS, 2 responders. Firefighters are shown at a recent car fire.
High: 35 Low: 17
Relive the sights and sounds
leading up to Christmas
with a variety of videos.
See videos online at
V__) brownwoodtx.com
Obituaries
Jodi Bradley
Mattie T. Gaston
Ivy Dell White
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Sharing the Holiday Spirit
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Joy Ivy delighted emergency room personnel Tradawn Armstrong and Vicki Day with a canister of pop-
corn when Joy and her husband, Richard, made their rounds at Brownwood Regional Medical Center as
Christmas elves on Christmas Eve 2011.
Mullin couple spreads
hospital cheer as
Christmas elves
BY STEVE NASH
BROWNWOOD BULLETIN
Steve, nash @ brownwoodbu lletin.com
How do Christmas elves meet and fall
in love?
If you are Richard and Joy Ivy of Mul-
lin, you meet after the male elf, sitting
in the balcony one Sunday at church,
is instantly smitten after seeing the
blonde, pretty female elf singing in the
choir back in the fall of '63.
Spoiler alert: the Ivys are not re-
ally elves. Richard is the pastor of the
Baptist church in Mullin, and Richard
and Joy are both former public school
educators. Richard previously pastored
in Brownwood and taught history at
Brownwood Middle School, and Joy is
retired from the Early school district.
The Ivys still own a home in Early.
As volunteers at Brownwood Regional
Medical Center — Richard as a member
of the Blue Gentlemen, and Joy with the
Pink Ladies — they are helping carry
on the tradition of “Christmas elves”
who spread some holiday cheer at the
hospital on either Christmas Eve or
Christmas Day.
As Christmas elves, they dress up
— not quite as elves, but in festive
Christmas garb. The two elves visit
patients and distribute small Christmas
stockings the volunteers have sown.
SEE ELVES, 8
One Happy Family
Nursing home residents, staffs celebrate season
BY STEPHANIE GREEN
BROWNWOOD BULLETIN
stephanie.green@brownwoodbulletin.com
Nursing homes are no lon-
ger limited to the bleak and
nondescript buildings where
families unable to care for
their elderly wheel them in
and leave them to stay for
long periods of time.
Now, many local nurs-
ing homes have taken the
form of skilled nursing and
rehabilitation centers similar
to elegant homes meant to
make the residents and their
families feel like staying for
good.
Nurses and aides not only
dispense medications, but
also serve as family and
friends to residents when
their own kith and kin are
STEPHANIE GREEN | BROWNWOOD BULLETIN not around.
Robert Spencer, a resident at Oak Ridge janey Vasquez, an LVN
Manor for four months, enjoys the at Oak Ridge Manor will be
Christmas tree and decor near the nurses
station. SEE FAMILY, 3
Rose Hoff-
man points to
the location of
her car’s brake
pads that were
fixed by a fellow
bell-ringer who
wants to remain
anonymous to
the public.
STEPHANIE GREEN
| BROWNWOOD
BULLETIN
Bell ringer s good deeds
result in one in return
BY STEPHANIE GREEN
BROWNWOOD BULLETIN
stephanie.green@brownwoodbulletin.com
These days more people
recognize Rose Hoffman when
she rings bells for The Salvation
Army. She says she has become
quite a celebrity since appearing
on the Thanksgiving Day edition
of the Bulletin.
Though not much has changed
in her financial situation, she
considers herself “blessed by God
everyday.”
Last week, after bell-ringing, she
counted the bills dropped into
her kettle, which all amounted to
$30. Talking to God and wishing
that she could at least have $50
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