One night, pharmacy owner Brooke Walker said she had a 30-minute conversation with a Washington man. “He said, ‘I love people and I feel like that was [Hody Childress'] motive. Can I give you a year’s worth of his donations?’ I was totally blown away.'
, Hody Childress’ fund is now four times what it was when he died on New Year’s Day.
On the first day of every month, he would hand a folded $100 bill to owner Brooke Walker, with the understanding that Walker would use the money to help people who couldn’t pay their drug store bills. It was only three months before Childress died that he revealed the fund to his daughter, Tania Nix, when he was no longer able to leave the house.
It was only after Childress’ death that his family became curious and discovered how long he had been making the contributions. Walker said it was a responsibility she took very seriously. Just before people were confronted with the uncomfortable decision of buying prescriptions or going without, Walker was able to help them.
One night, Walker said, she spent her drive home from work in a 30-minute phone conversation with a man from Washington. One of Walker’s former graduate school classmates at a pharmacy sent her a message with a photo of a $100 bill, saying a regular customer came in referencing Childress’ story and gave the money, saying he hopes to make a similar contribution every month.
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