Farmer dies, town learns he secretly paid strangers' pharmacy bills. He said, 'Don't tell a soul where the money came from,' said Brooke Walker, who owns a pharmacy in Geraldine, Ala. BY CATHY FREE. JANUARY 19 AT 6:00 AM. Hody Childress was a farmer living off his meager retirement savings in the small town of Geraldine, Ala.