Alabama Man Secretly Helped Pay Strangers’ Prescriptions For Years

Tania Nix smiles with her father, Hody Childress

Residents say Geraldine, Alabama is as close to the fictional idyllic 1960s TV town of Mayberry as you can get in real life. Located about an hour outside of Huntsville, the town of less than a thousand is the kind of place where everyone knows their neighbour and most people watch the Friday night football game.

But for the last decade, the people of Geraldine have been helped by a secret benefactor who many have now come to regard as their guardian angel.

Alabama man secretly helped pay strangers’ prescriptions for years – BBC News