This is just a good person.

[ladypanther]

Hody Childress was a farmer living off his meager retirement savings in the small town of Geraldine, Ala.

About 10 years ago, he walked into Geraldine Drugs and pulled aside owner Brooke Walker to ask if there were families in town who couldn’t afford to pay for their medications.

“I told him, ‘Yes, unfortunately that happens often,’” recalled Walker, 38. “And he handed me a $100 bill, all folded up.”

He told her to use it for anyone who couldn’t afford their prescriptions.

“He said, ‘Don’t tell a soul where the money came from — if they ask, just tell them it’s a blessing from the Lord,’” she said.

The following month, Childress returned to hand Walker another folded-up $100 bill. And he repeated this every month for years, until he became too weak late last year from the effects of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to make the trip.

As the years went on, Childress’s $100 bills added up to thousands of dollars, she said, noting that she was usually able to help two people a month who didn’t have insurance or whose benefits wouldn’t cover their medications.

[He] was a humble man who lived off a small retirement account and Social Security, but he never hesitated to help those in need, she added.

Nobody in the family, including Nix’s stepmother, Martha Jo Childress, knew about his monthly trips to the Geraldine drugstore.

 

His kindness motivated me to be more of a compassionate person,” she [pharmacist]said. “He was just a good old guy who wanted to bless his community, and he certainly did. He established a legacy of kindness.”

People in Geraldine who hope to keep that legacy going are now dropping by the drugstore with donations of their own, Walker said.

“We’re calling it the Hody Childress Fund, and we’re going to keep it going as long as the community and Hody’s family wants to keep it alive,” she said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/01/19/alabama-farmer-hody-childress-prescriptions/

Wow.

[LinvilleGorge]

Yes he is. And it's a damn shame that the richest country in the world needs people like this.

 

[Khyber53]

That's the kind of rich man we need more of in this world, rich in spirit and love.