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An Alabama man, an Air Force veteran, secretly donated $100 each month to cover the cost of his neighbors' medications at a pharmacy, Geraldine Drugs. Now, after his death, others are taking it up.
Hody Childress died on New Year's Day at 80-years-old.
An Alabama farmer, known only as “John,” had been secretly helping strangers pay their pharmacy bills. Word of his generosity began to circulate only after John passed away. He’d been anonymously paying for people’s prescriptions at local pharmacies for the past year.
Every month for a decade, Hody Childress quietly delivered cash to a local pharmacy for those in need. In the wake of his death, strangers have picked up the tab
Hody Childress brought cash every month to a pharmacist in Alabama, asking her to use it to help people buy medicine. The town learned of the arrangement only after his death.