Community Comes Together to Give Senior a Merry Christmas

On Tuesday evening a local charity asked for a new bed for a formerly homeless man down on his luck and living on oxygen 24/7.

By Wednesday morning, a donor gave the senior citizen a new bed. Others in the community helped by donating funds to pay for new pillows and bed linens.

“I’ve answered over 130 emails in one day,” Peter Brady, Executive Director of the Brookfield-based charity Handy Dandy Handyman (HDHM) told Patch.

The senior living in Danbury, William, reached out to Brady because he had not slept in a bed for 6 months after the bed he received from another charity collapsed. He was sleeping on his couch.

A Brookfield woman, who wished to remain anonymous, told Brady that she lost her mother last year around the holidays and had a brand new bed that she wished to donate. After seeing the article on Brookfield Patch, she knew she wanted to help, especially this time of year.

“With the help of the Brookfield Patch, ADV and several caring donors, HDHM was able to provide William with his best Christmas gift in years,” Brady said.

William’s old bed had two non-matching mattresses, a broken box spring, no sheets and one pillow. Brady delivered the new mattress and box spring, new bedding and four new pillows on Friday.

“I’m beside myself with such a gift from God,” William told Brady.

Merry Christmas William.

Photo of William by Peter Brady