FORT WORTH (1080 KRLD) - The owners of a Fort Worth funeral home are paying it forward after one of them recovers from COVID-19.
Andrew Sims-Kirkland and Parish Lowery own Tree Of Life Funeral Directors.
"After Mr. Sims-Kirkland was able to be victorious in his bout with COVID-19, we got together and wanted to do something for our community and just highlight our essential workers," says Lowery, who's also the pastor of Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Fort Worth.
That something is to pay for gas for essential workers.
"First responders, medical field, funeral home workers, even pharmacies, daycare workers, people who were still having to go to work during the shutdown are considered essential workers," says Sims-Kirkland.
The funeral homeowners did not seek any donations for this effort -- they'll be paying for the gas with their own money.
"We never want Tree of Life funeral home to be looked at as always taking people's money when death comes," says Sims-Kirkland, "but rather we want to be seen giving back to our own community as well."
The essential workers who show up in uniform or show an ID can get their gas tanks filled up for free on Sunday from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the 7-Eleven in Fort Worth's Renaissance Square, located at 3300 Vaughn Blvd.
Lowery even came up with a catchy slogan for the giveaway.
"Keep your cash, come get gas."
