At the Carrollton, Kentucky Walmart, 86-year-old Mary Ruth Robinson works as a greeter. She is dressed in brightly colored clogs and a blue hat that matches her team vest.

However, she is much more to the shoppers there: she has a contagious smile that can brighten anyone’s day. With Mary Ruth as the pastor, the automated doors resemble the portico of a cathedral of compassion.

Ted Holcomb, a customer, commented, “You don’t find somebody like her every day anymore.” However, tragedy triggered a wellspring of well wishes within the gregarious senior.

Her spouse Jacky, with whom she had a lifetime of love and adventure, passed away on their wedding anniversary not too long ago. He had fought a difficult fight with Parkinson’s disease that left him bedridden for five years.

Robinson remarked, “I wish that kind of love was possible for everyone.” “I realized that I will die of loneliness because I miss him if I don’t go to work.”

She had always valued her independence and thought that finding employment would be a good opportunity to turn things around in her life. She thinks that working is an amazing thing, an amazing form of treatment.

A Walmart representative said, “She’s making connections and getting the love she is missing at home with the help of shoppers.” “It’s really touching how the shoppers are supporting her during her difficult time.”