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Sybil Bruncheon has been performing on stage, radio, TV, film, and in various Vaudeville, burlesque, church basement, county fair, and sideshow....uh..."venues" for most of her 29 years. She is available for bookings for just about anything and can be reached at bruncheon@hotmail.com and on her website sybilbruncheon.com. She is a proud member of the Actors Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild. Her erdo number is 16.

Betty Anne was known throughout the neighborhood as the best hostess... no, really, the BEST! It wasn't that she was such a great cook; as a matter of fact, folks laughed behind her back about some of her "food-faux pas"!! Cheez-Whiz on soggy Saltines, Marshmallow Fluff in a fondue, and the time she accidentally served Milk-Bone Biscuits to the Cub Scout troop thinking they were ginger snaps especially designed for Halloween! But all, all was always forgiven because Betty Anne Breitling was so gracious, warm-hearted, and generous with both her home and her own self... no one could resist her!

And so, for this particular Christmas season in 1959, Betty Anne was in full swing! She headed the decorating committee at the church for the Children's Nativity Pageant, and she was in charge of all the music at the Holiday Dance for the local police and fire departments... she arranged the Christmas Tree Fund-Raiser Drive, and came up with the idea for the Come-As-A-Reindeer Pet Contest!! The entire town rocked, ROCKED with joyous laughter over THAT one!!... especially when Millie Ferguson's nine chihuahuas were costumed in their tiny red velvet jackets with white fur collars and pipe-cleaner antlers pulling little Janey's wagon with her Chatty Cathy made up to look like Santa! Needless to say, it was Millie who won First Prize... well, Millie, and Señor Frisco who, with his red rubber nose, triumphed as a miniature Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer!

It was after the Pet Contest (and all the applause and acclaim!) that Millie went home to fix some late-night refreshments for a few special friends who were dropping by for an intimate little Saturday night soirée... There was Kirk Billows, the local aluminum siding salesman, and Frank and Rita Corralson who owned Corralson's Hardware Outlet. They weren't married; they were brother and sister. Frank and Kirk had been “travel pals” for going on 15 years, and Betty Anne and Rita were thinking of moving in together after the first of the year... somewhere on the edge of town with enough land to maybe open the nudist colony they had been hoping for...

Yep! 1960 looked to be the beginning of an exciting new decade, full of adventures for all of them... and when Betty Anne (all in red!) wheeled out her (probably stale!) baloney and Kraft American cheese sandwiches and the remainder cake from Carvel's down the block, the four of them laughed and babbled about what fun they had had at the Pet Contest and how much more they would have when Betty Anne put on her white beard and took each of them on her lap to "talk to Santa"!... Had they been naughty?... or nice? And where was Santa's riding crop???

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