Rural Carrier Amanda Nalley was recently making deliveries in Cumming, GA, when she noticed that an 84-year-old customer, Rodney Garner, had not picked up his mail in several days.
After seeing no sign of Garner at home and talking to a neighbor who’d not seen him, either, Nalley called 911 and asked someone to check on him.
Emergency responders soon discovered Garner unconscious in his bedroom — where he’d fallen while cleaning the floor — and rushed him to a hospital.
“Without her inquisitiveness, we would have probably lost him,” Thomas Cowart, Garner’s neighbor, told a local newspaper.
“She didn’t have to make that extra effort to stop, but she takes the time to know these elderly people, and she knew something was wrong, and she acted on it,” said Carol Harris, Garner’s daughter.
“What an amazing angel she is,” Harris said.
In a report on the local ABC station, Nalley summed up her approach to her work: “I love my job. I love my customers. Whatever I can do, I just do it.”