“It’s a blessing from God.”
Pharmacist Brooke Walker was solely following directions every time she gave that reply to incredulous clients who discovered that the important meds they couldn’t afford had already been paid for.
For ten years, Walker, who owns, manages and runs Geraldine Medicine—the pharmacy and retailer that serves 900 souls within the tiny hamlet of Geraldine, Alabama—saved silent that the key angel taking good care of the medicinal wants of the needy was Hody Childress, air drive vet and a farmer of modest means who lived primarily off his Social Safety test.
Sooner or later in 2012, he walked into Geraldine Medicine and requested proprietor Brooke if there have been households on the town who couldn’t afford their meds.
“I advised him, ‘Sure, sadly, that occurs typically,’” she recalled. “And he handed me a $100 invoice, all folded up.”
“Right here, this $100 is for anybody who can’t afford their prescription,” Hody mentioned. “Don’t inform a soul that the cash got here from me. Inform them it’s a blessing from God.”
A month later Hody Childress confirmed up with one other $100 invoice, with the identical directions. And so it continued, month after month, yr after yr, for ten years—the fund accumulating to 1000’s of {dollars}, and nobody, not even Hody’s household, figuring out who the key angel was. The household took word of his frequent visits to the drug retailer, however gave it little significance as Geraldine Medicine is a well-liked and heat gathering place any time of day.
“He was a person of modest means,” says Brooke. “Giving $100 a month was fairly a gesture. I knew that serving to individuals was in his coronary heart.”
Then some weeks in the past Hody felt his physique starting to close down. At age 80 he knew he didn’t have lengthy to reside. His first concern was the fund, his “blessing from God.” It wanted to proceed. He confided in his daughter, Tania Nix, who later mentioned, “I used to be shocked—I had no concept that he was serving to individuals on the drug retailer.”
A brand new plan was put in place. Ever since Tania revealed that the angel of their midst had been her dad, the individuals of Geraldine have been paying it ahead, guaranteeing that his fund—now dubbed the Hody Childress Fund—will proceed.
Due to Hody Childress, many individuals in Geraldine have lived and lived higher, one in all them commenting, “Hody was a real humble servant who will at all times be beloved.”
And as native TV station WVTM-13 put it, “As Hody Childress begins his new life in heaven, his decade-old observe of serving to the city people will proceed on Earth.”
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