“He said, ‘Don’t tell a soul where the money came from.’” An Alabama farmer spent years secretly paying off strangers' pharmacy bills.
Hody Childress was a farmer living off his meager retirement savings in the small town of Geraldine, Ala.
When Childress died on New Year's Day at age 80, Walker said she decided to let his family know about the donations that had helped several hundred people in the farming community, located about 60 miles from Huntsville. "He didn't spend a lot of money in life, but he always gave what he could," she said. "If he took you out to eat, you had to be quick to grab the ticket, or he was paying for it."
"Everyone in town remembers my dad carrying her up to the top row of the bleachers to watch the Friday night ballgames at the high school," she said. "He continued to do that until he had heart surgery in 1998 and could no longer lift her." "I heard from people who said they'd been going through a rough time and their prescriptions were paid for when they went to pick them up," she said, recalling one woman who didn't have $600 for an EpiPen for her son.
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