Elderly Navy Vet Works at Walmart until Strangers Raise Nearly $150,000 for Him: ‘This Is Just Unreal’
Butch Marion has spent many of his 82 years of life in service to others, and until just a few weeks ago, was still working hard every day. Not only did Marion spend 10 years in the Navy, but later in life he also…
Butch Marion has spent many of his 82 years of life in service to others, and until just a few weeks ago, was still working hard every day.
Not only did Marion spend 10 years in the Navy, but later in life he also retired to care for his ex-wife’s ailing husband until he passed. Then he headed back to work at Walmart, which is where Rory McCarty found him several weeks ago.
McCarty, who shops at the Walmart in Cumberland, Maryland, where Marion worked, spotted the elderly employee and struck up a conversation as he rang up his items.
He found out that Marion was 82 and a veteran, was still working about 30 hours a week because he had to, and had family in Florida he hadn’t been able to see in years that he missed dearly.
So McCarty filmed a brief interaction with him where he told him about another person who went to Walmarts, found people in need, and raised funds for them so they could quit — and then McCarty did his darnedest to bring about the same sort of thing for his new friend Marion (with Marion’s permission, of course).
“I believe the Lord’s gonna bless you,” he told Marion in one of his TikTok