{"id":1189416,"date":"2022-12-25T15:21:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T21:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1189416"},"modified":"2022-12-26T13:59:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T19:59:32","slug":"13-year-old-gifts-400-bears-to-hospital-patients-for-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1189416","title":{"rendered":"13-year-old gifts 400 bears to hospital patients for holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/12\/b-175x102.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"102\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1189418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/12\/b-175x102.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/12\/b.png 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d When BreAnn Benson was seven years old, she decided to start giving out bears at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler. According to our news partner KETK, she is now 13 years old with the same mission. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My mother got a surgery in the hospital and was there for over a month and got absolutely nothing and I got really sad and stuff,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Benson. At that moment, Benson knew she had to do something and spread joy to adult patients in the same hospital her mom was in. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think about kids worrying about adults, they just wanna go out and play and everything else, but her heart is so big she was more worried about consoling those in the hospital,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said BreAnn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mother, Jeri Ann Summerville. Six years ago they had 99 bears to donate and this year is the largest to date, 400 bears. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This year we actually get to fund the entire hospital,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Benson. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>The reactions and smiles keep BreAnn coming back each year. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I created this charity to give to only adults so they feel loved instead of just kids,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Benson. COVID-19 and flu season has not allowed her to go into everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rooms to deliver bears personally. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It deflated her a little bit because she was used to going into each room and personally delivering the bears,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Summervile. That doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t stop BreAnn from spreading joy and love one bear at a time. This year she was able to give to the entire hospital and some emergency room patients. She hopes to add other local hospitals to the list next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d When BreAnn Benson was seven years old, she decided to start giving out bears at Christus Trinity Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler. According to our news partner KETK, she is now 13 years old with the same mission. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My mother got a surgery in the hospital and was there for over a month &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1189416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">13-year-old gifts 400 bears to hospital patients for holidays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1189422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/12\/b-175x102.png","fifu_image_alt":"13-year-old gifts 400 bears to East Texas hospital patients for holidays","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1189416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 01:36:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/12\/b-175x102.png","fifu_image_alt":"13-year-old gifts 400 bears to East Texas hospital patients for holidays","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1189416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189549,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189416\/revisions\/1189549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1189422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1189416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1189416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1189416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}