{"id":38736,"date":"2025-11-06T22:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/38736\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T22:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T22:07:15","slug":"more-than-150000-raised-to-support-lubbock-barbers-wife-recovering-from-drunk-driving-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/38736\/","title":{"rendered":"More than $150,000 raised to support Lubbock barber\u2019s wife recovering from drunk driving crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Support continues to grow for the Texas Tech Football team\u2019s barber who\u2019s asking for prayers after his wife was critically injured by a drunk driver in October. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ivan Ortiz is currently managing his family while supporting his wife, Maddie, who remains in the ICU. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Ivan started his GoFundMe campaign following his interview with KCBD\u2019s Imani Jackson. Red Raiders have shown up for him and his family as his wife continues her fight to recover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">ESPN\u2019s Kirk Herbstreit and BYU fans joined in on helping Ivan Ortiz by donating thousands of dollars. The GoFundMe has now raised more than $150,000. While <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jasonmcgowan\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jasonmcgowan\">Jason McGowan<\/a>, co-founder and CEO of Crumbl, made a $25,000 donation, more keep pouring in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more thankful for that. Joey McGuire and Kirby Hocutt reached out to me and like I said, I couldn\u2019t be more thankful. That they\u2019re walking with us,\u201d Ivan told KCBD in a follow-up interview. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See the full story here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/11\/03\/lubbock-barber-asks-prayers-wife-recovers-after-drunk-driving-crash\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.kcbd.com\/2025\/11\/03\/lubbock-barber-asks-prayers-wife-recovers-after-drunk-driving-crash\/\">Lubbock barber asks for prayers as wife recovers after drunk driving crash<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If you would like to donate, click here for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-support-maddies-road-to-recovery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-support-maddies-road-to-recovery\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Support continues to grow for the Texas Tech Football team\u2019s barber who\u2019s asking for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[12156,21516,319,251,168,170,169,1769,23975],"class_list":["post-38736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-gofundme","tag-ivan-ortiz","tag-kcbd","tag-local-news","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-texas-tech","tag-texas-tech-barber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}