It turns out that angels sometimes wear brown.
UPS driver Raheem Cooper was passing through his normal route in the Georgian town of Valdosta when he saw an elderly woman collapsed on her driveway.
Calling emergency services, Cooper stayed with the woman, identified later as Marie Coble, all the while calling her ‘grandmother.’
The woman was checked into the hospital where emergency brain surgery had to be performed on a subdural hematoma. She made it through the harrowing procedure and began the road to recovery in the hospital.
Kayla Cochran, Coble’s granddaughter, heard of what Cooper had done for her and managed to track him down.
“I found his number and called him and told him thank you,” Cochran told WALB News. “That he was truly an angel to our family to have found her because if he wouldn’t have, she would have died that day.”
“Five days after the surgery, she hadn’t talked at all,” Cochran said. “And when he came into the room, she brightened up and actually pushed herself up and gave him a hug. That’s the first time since this whole thing has happened.”
Following up, Cooper started a GoFuneMe to raise money for the family, seeing as how members had to drive in from out of town to stay with Coble while she recovered. He just wants to lend a helping hand, he insists, and kicked the fund drive off with $100 of his own money.
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Earlier this week Raheem Cooper, received a letter from UPS’s chief executive officer for his acts of heroism. At his local branch, a coworker got him tickets to the Florida State University football game, and the supervisor presented him with a plaque in his honor.
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Wonderful man! He didn’t CARE what color her skin was, what house she lived in, but with an act of humanity, he bowed down and helped another human in need.
Thank you, sir!
And “Angels sometimes wear brown” had nothing to to do with his skin color, because GNN doesn’t roll that way. “Brown” is the color of UPS trucks.