For 32 years, people in the Lillian, Alabama community and their children were greeted with a big, bright smile from 52-year-old Peggy Broz, as her son, Zachary Broz, 25, described it.
"Lillian is small so we're all like family here," said Zachary "my mom was that kind of person she loved to give back."
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"My mom was just at the wrong place, at the wrong time," said Zachary.
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Badners said for the past 32 years Broz worked about 20 miles away at the Baptist Hospital in Pensacola as a nurse.
She typically worked the 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. shift and would get home around 7:15 a.m. on most days.
On Friday (Feb. 3), Broz followed her normal routine and came home....Broz's*white 2003 Chrysler Concorde was found a day later in a wooded area near Pensacola.
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"You know she was such a nice person she would've given him the car," said Badners.
Authorities in Baldwin, Alabama and Escambia, Florida unleashed*a five-day manhunt*for the duo. The pair was able to elude police and get nearly 300 miles away, to the West Point Motel in West Point GA.
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Zachary chimed in, saying that he's expecting a child in a few months. Broz had spent the final days of her life planning a baby shower for him at the neighborhood church.
"She loved to host parties," said Zachary "The day after she passed away I was supposed to have my baby shower and she was hosting it."
Only a couple hundred feet from her home, the First Baptist Church sits at 34421 Barclay Avenue in Lillian, where Broz spent a lot of her spare time.
The lights in the worship center of the church were dim Wednesday afternoon. Pastor Josh Thompson sat in the front pew, quietly, *next to a bible.
Thompson has led the church for almost six years. He said Broz did anything she could to help out around the church.
"She served as a trustee, volunteered in the kitchen every chance she got," said Thompson "she would always take her weeks vacation and spend it here during vacation bible school."
But, her best times spent at the church, was in the nursery school with the children. Thompson said she helped out in the nursery for more than 20 years.
