By Dale Huffman, Contributing columnist
As Christmas day approaches some evidence has come to my attention that supports the theory that there are angels among us. And stories about them seem to surface during the season of goodwill.
Rosemary Dillon, and her friend, feel that is true.
Rosemary, who lives in the Twin Towers Place neighborhood east of downtown shared this story of what they call angelic behavior.
“My friend had just opened her new bank account,” Rosemary said. “She did not have her regular bank books with her name printed on the checks delivered yet.”
She said she and her friend were shopping for groceries at a Walmart. “The clerk explained that she was not able to accept one of those temporary checks,” Rosemary said. “My friend had selected over a hundred dollars worth of groceries which she needed and she was upset, and perplexed over what to do.”
Rosemary said her friend had all but given up, and was prepared to leave the store. She hoped to return at a later date to get her groceries and supplies for holiday meals.
“All of a sudden this stranger standing behind my friend very politely, and quietly, offered to pay for the groceries,” Rosemary said. “My friend was embarrassed and said she appreciated the offer but would feel uncomfortable accepting a gesture so generous.”
Rosemary said the woman insisted, and she took the check Rosemary’s friend had written and replaced it with one on her own account.
The two women thank the woman they called an “angel” and headed home with the groceries.
“There is still another chapter to the generous story,” Rosemary said. “When we got to my friend’s apartment, she realized she had left behind one of the bags of groceries during the nervous excitement.
“Then we looked up and this kind woman had followed us in her car, and delivered the bag my friend left behind.”
Rosemary said, “It was an marvelous gesture of goodwill and kindness and we both thank the angel lady who brightened our holiday season with her caring gift from the heart.”
Cassano family treasure
Mary Cassano Bockrath wants to thank the stranger who helped preserve what she calls “family treasures beyond belief.”
The Cassano family is well known in the Dayton area as the owners of an Italian restaurant franchise.
“We had an estate sale at the home of my aunt and uncle, Ann and Vic Cassano,” Mary said. “There was a box of undeveloped movie film among the items that were sold. It was mistakenly put on sale.”
Mary said that someone realized it could be important to the family.
“A stranger dropped off the box at a Cassano store,” Mary said. “We had it developed and it included movies of our entire family at a 1954 reunion. This stranger delivered a tattered box to our family, and in doing so also delivered family history that could have disappeared forever. We thank this lady for the kind gesture. May God bless her.”