In colorful clogs and a blue hat to match her Walmart team vest, 86-year-old Mary Ruth Robinson is a greeter at the Carrollton, Kentucky location.
But to the people shopping there, she is so much more: an infectious personality with the power to turn around anyone’s day. The automatic doors are like the portico of a cathedral of kindness, with Mary Ruth as the pastor.
“You don’t find somebody like her every day anymore,” shopper Ted Holcomb said.
But the wellspring of well-wishes within the spritely senior erupted out of tragedy.
Not long ago, her husband Jacky, with whom she shared a lifetime of love and adventure, died on their wedding anniversary after a taxing battle with Parkinson’s that left him bedridden for 5 years.
“I wish everybody could have that kind of love,” said Robinson. “I thought well if I don’t go to work, I will die of loneliness, because I miss him.”
Her independence was always important to her, and she reasoned that getting a job might be a good way to get the wheels of her life turning again. She believes working is a wonderful thing: a wonderful therapy.
“She’s making connections and getting the love she is missing at home with the help of shoppers,” said a Walmart spokesperson. “It’s so sweet how shoppers are really coming through for her in her time of need.”
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The community responds to her daily greetings at the store which she says is the ley-line for the kindest people she’s ever met with kindness, hugs, selfies, and even flowers sometimes.
WDRB Kentucky also spoke with one shopper whose son was autistic and wouldn’t hug a soul until he met Mary Ruth.
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