A long commitment to other people's welfare has been revealed at the funeral of a US man, where mourners heard that he had secretly been paying for other people's prescriptions for a decade.
Hody Childress from the small town of Geraldine, Alabama was a farmer and also worked at the nearby Lockheed Martin Space facility.
The local pharmacist said that about 10 years ago Childress approached her with a US$100 bill and asked "do you ever have anybody that can't pay for their medication?"
"I said, 'Well yeah, unfortunately that happens a good bit,'" she said, with Childress handing over the money and saying "next time that happens, will you use this?"
"Don't tell where it came from, and don't tell me who needed it, just say it's a blessing from the Lord," he said.
Initially thinking it was just a one-off gift, the pharmacist was surprised when the good samaritan did the same thing the following month.
"It continued every single month for almost 10 years," she said, with Childress' daughter eventually brought into the secret to deliver the cash when he became incapacitated.
The generous man died earlier this month aged 80, and after his private generosity was revealed during his funeral, a Washington Post report led to phone calls from across the country to the pharmacy wanting to keep the fund going.
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