When Brittany Smith of Manchester, Tennessee requested Starbucks through DoorDash, she wasn’t prepared for what she saw. Her video doorbell caught the Dasher who arrived with her order, an elderly man gingerly walking up her porch stairs to slowly leave her order at her door. Smith was deeply affected by watching an elderly man delivering food for her, so she posted the video of him across her social media. “Help me find this precious man!” she wrote on Facebook. “Why is he having to DoorDash…his name is Richard! Help me find him.” With the help of other users, Smith was able to locate the man, a 78-year-old man by the name of Richard Pulley. “He is precious and he is not working because he wants to. He’s working [because] he has to,” she said in an update.

Pulley and his wife Brenda have been married for 56 years. Richard revealed that his wife had been fired from her job “at no fault of her own” over a year ago, leaving the couple to struggle to pay for basic living expenses. During that time, the couple had been doing DoorDash together, with Brenda driving while Richard took the deliveries to the door. “When you’re past your mid-70s, there’s not exactly a line of people waiting to hire you,” Brenda told a local news station. “With just one income in the family, you have to push… Just losing that, we had to supplement it,” added Richard.

Moved by the couple’s story, Smith started a GoFundMe to help the couple retire. “Richard delivered Starbucks to my home via door dash and it was evident from the video this was a task for him. With the help of social media I was able to track down Richard and learned he does DoorDash due to his wife being fired from her job… Let’s help Richard go back into retirement!!” Smith wrote. The campaign, along with the video of the struggling Richard, took off, with over $300,000 being raised within 24 hours. Smith and her daughter arranged a meeting with Brenda and Richard at a local Manchester restaurant to share the stunning total that had been donated to them.

The couple was floored. “It’s just really difficult to believe that there’s that many people that are that generous to try to help us… People that don’t even know us,” said Brenda. She added praise for Smith. “She’s remarkable. I just can’t believe that someone would be that caring to set this up for us.” “We appreciate every one of them… it’s taking a lot of pressure off of us… and making life livable once again,” said Richard. As for herself, Smith characterized it as an act of love. “I don’t know. It’s just I love this man,” she said, with her daughter adding she’d like Richard to be her grandpa. And the donations just keep pouring in. At the time of this writing, donations had neared nearly $1 million.