Walmart cashier, 82, finally able to retire after wellwishers’ fundraising effort

Navy veteran Warren ‘Butch’ Marion plans to pay off house and visit family after businessman raises $100,000 on social media

A Walmart cashier in his 80s, one of scores of Americans forced to continue working into old age, has been able to retire thanks to a collective act of kindness.

Warren “Butch” Marion, 82, a US navy veteran from Maryland, got the surprise of a lifetime when he received a check for more than $100,000 after a local business owner, Roy McCarty, organized a collection online.

McCarty, who owns the Bug Boys local extermination businesses and has a substantial TikTok following, met Marion while filming a video. He asked his followers on the social media channel to consider donating to a GoFundMe fundraiser last month, and soon surpassed his funding target.

“I was astounded seeing this little older man still grinding. Working 8 to 9 hour shifts,” McCarty wrote on the funding page. He said he was inspired by other social media fundraisers to help older people retire, and wanted Marion to be able to visit his children in Florida and get “off his feet for eight hours at a time”.

“Wow,” was Marion’s response when presented with the money. “All I can tell you is the Good Lord has blessed me for what I did in my younger years,” he told the Cumberland Times-News, saying that he would use the money to pay off his house and retire from Walmart.

Many Americans struggle to save enough money for retirement. According to the Federal Reserve, “one-quarter of the non-retired indicate that they have no retirement savings or pension whatsoever”.

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