It was during these formative years that he met and became lifelong friends of Roy Butler and Ronnie Earle, both of whom mentored him and helped him throughout the rest of his career.īruce earned his certified public accountant’s license and practiced accounting from 1974 until 1986 at three different firms: Gibson, Johnson Mueller, Todd and Garcia, Morrison & Co. In 1972, he was hired as Director of Information Services for the Texas Civil Council, where he worked until he graduated from UT with a degree in business administration, having “crammed four years of education into five,” as he often joked. You can see a YouTube video of this performance at Virtually the day he graduated as a proud Breckenridge Buckaroo in 1968 he left for Austin with $500 in his pocket, a gift from his beloved grandfather that was going to need, somehow, to stretch to cover a college education at The University of Texas.īruce got a full-time job at the city of Austin’s Municipal Court where he served first as night court supervisor and was later promoted to clerk of the court, a department head position at which he managed a staff of 50-all the while juggling classes at UT. Bruce said on numerous occasions that having the chance to sing for President John Kennedy changed his life and inspired him to go into a career of public service. Dean, through force of will, formed a choir of young men from this small Texas town and booked the group all over the country, most memorably at the White House April 16, 1962.
Another woman also played a huge role in Bruce’s youth: Gwen Dean, director of the Breckenridge Boys Choir. She insisted on perfect grammar and made sure they had all she could provide to be successes in life. Mary Kate Todd instilled an ethic of hard work into her children. His three sisters doted on him and acted as surrogate moms until the day Bruce died. The community made sure the boys had a paper route that they handed down from brother to brother so they could buy bikes and do their share. He talked occasionally about having so little money that the church brought the family milk. He was the second of six children reared in Breckenridge, Texas, by his remarkable mother, Mary Katherine Holland Todd.
In the 72 years between those two dates, he accomplished more than most people could in two lifetimes. 25, 2021, from complications of Lewy Body disease. Father, husband, brother, public servant, friend-Bruce Todd was all of these.īruce was born Dec.
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