US Edition80-Year-Old Grocery Bagger Works to Pay Off Late Wife's Medical Bills; Community Steps in to Help | News Channel 3-12
- Gary Saling, an 80-year-old grocery bagger at Smith's Market in St. George, continues working to manage the outstanding medical expenses following the death of his wife.
- Saling, who was once an acclaimed architect designing multi-billion-dollar mansions and worked three jobs in his youth, continues working due to owing $80,000 in medical debt.
- Saling and his wife Carol, an artist diagnosed with dementia in 2017, relocated to southern Utah to access neurological care before she died in 2021, deeply affecting him.
- Community member Duana Johnson noticed Saling grocery bagging and organized a donation fund, raising about $2,000 so far to help him retire and stop working.
- Despite his hard work and community support, Saling remains committed to his promise to care for Carol at home, reflecting his enduring love and vow not to place her in a nursing home.
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80-year-old grocery bagger works to pay off late wife's medical bills; Community steps in to help | News Channel 3-12
By Chris Reed Click here for updates on this story ST. GEORGE, Utah (KSTU) — Anyone who shops at the Smith’s Market on Bluff in St. George knows Gary Saling, the kind 80-year-old grocery bagger. What they don’t know he once served Hollywood royalty and designed multi-million-dollar mansions for Wall Street financiers. But he now works to pay off medical bills for the love of his life. Now, the hard-working Saling is getting a community assis…
Community helps 80-year-old grocery bagger in Utah pay off his late wife's medical bills
Anyone who shops at the Smith's Market on Bluff in St. George, Utah knows Gary Saling, the kind 80-year-old grocery bagger.What they dont know is that he once served Hollywood royalty and designed multi-million-dollar mansions for Wall Street financiers. But he now works long past the age of retirement to pay off medical bills for the love of his life.He says he got his workaholic nature from his single mom, who was the head waitress at the famo…
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80-year-old grocery bagger works to pay off late wife's medical bills; Community steps in to help
Gary Saling, the kind 80-year-old grocery bagger, once served Hollywood royalty and designed multi-million-dollar mansions for Wall Street financiers.
80-Year-Old Man Still Works as Grocery Bagger to Keep a Promise to His Late Wife
An 80-year-old man in Utah continues working as a grocery bagger to pay off his late wife's medical bills because of a promise he made to her. We all make promises in marriage, but few of us face the test Gary Saling faces. When we say "for better or worse,"…
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