{"id":444874,"date":"2026-09-23T06:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444874\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T06:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T06:40:16","slug":"community-rallies-around-elderly-north-texas-resident-seen-delivering-lost-luggage-to-support-ailing-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444874\/","title":{"rendered":"Community rallies around elderly North Texas resident seen delivering lost luggage to support ailing wife"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">THE COLONY, Texas &#8211; After seeing an elderly man struggling to deliver lost luggage in The Colony, the local community has started a GoFundMe to help him retire and care for his sick wife.<\/p>\n<p>   GoFundMe for Donald Johnson <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/donaldjohnson.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Erin Howell, a resident of The Colony, has started a GoFundMe to help Donald Johnson, an 81-year-old man who she saw struggling to deliver recently lost luggage to her residence.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Johnson told her he&#8217;s been delivering luggage as an independent contractor for the last three years to pay for medical bills for his wife Josephine, his wife of 57 years who is battling cancer.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">When Howell asked Johnson why he works such a physically demanding job, he told her, &#8220;It&#8217;s the only job that will hire me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The GoFundMe states that Johnson has put over 200,000 miles on his car delivering luggage, causing vehicle problems.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Howell says all money from the campaign will go towards paying Josephine&#8217;s medical bills and allowing Johnson to retire to care for his wife.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">You can find the link to the GoFundMe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-an-81yearold-devoted-husband-stop-delivering-luggage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story comes from a GoFundMe for Donald Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/denton-county\/the-colony\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Colony<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE COLONY, Texas &#8211; After seeing an elderly man struggling to deliver lost luggage in The Colony, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1643,223,27,29,28,1316,216,393],"class_list":["post-444874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-denton-county","tag-news","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-the-colony","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}