Treasurer Ivey Presents Award to Mrs. Brenley Alabama State Treasurer, Kay Ivey, presents the Rural Volunteer Excellemce in Service Award to Mrs. Joyce Brenley of Cullman.

Mrs. Brenley is a life-long resident of Cullman County who began volunteering at the Cullman Branch of Alacare Home Health & Hospice in 2002 doing clerical work. One of the many examples of the love and compassion that defines Mrs. Brenley was seen when she spearheaded an effort to move a patient who had no family to assist her from an apartment that was not handicapped-accessible to one that was.

Mrs. Brenley has since taken on a full-time job, but continues to use her baking skills to generate happiness by making birthday cakes for Alacare's hospice patients. She keeps a calendar of patient birthdays, finds out what each patient's favorite kind of cake is, and makes sure to have the huge, four-layer cakes at the branch office in time for staff to deliver them on patients' birthdays.