Texas man, 81, works 14-hour days delivering lost luggage to pay for wife's cancer treatment as strangers raise $250K
From the Newshound archive · first published 24 September 2026.
Donald Johnson hauls lost luggage up flights of stairs — the only job, he said, that would hire him after Amazon and Walmart turned him away, as he quietly worked 14-hour days for three years to cover his wife…
Don Johnson had been quietly working 14-hour days for three years, driving hundreds of miles across Texas to return lost luggage, before a doorbell camera changed everything.
Johnson told Howell: 'It's the only job that will hire me' — he was turned away by Amazon and Walmart.
