{"id":5118,"date":"2023-11-15T04:34:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T03:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=5118"},"modified":"2023-11-15T04:34:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T03:34:59","slug":"automobile-dealership-a-customer-approaches-an-employee-who-is-surprised-by-what-he-discovers-in-the-trunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=5118","title":{"rendered":"Automobile Dealership A \u00abCustomer\u00bb approaches an employee, who is surprised by what he discovers in the trunk."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One Utah widower was on the job at a car dealership when a show of love and support rolled into the service department.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Recently-Widowed-Father-Gets-Small-Town-Support-0-29-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Recently-Widowed-Father-Gets-Small-Town-Support-0-29-screenshot.png 854w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Recently-Widowed-Father-Gets-Small-Town-Support-0-29-screenshot-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Recently-Widowed-Father-Gets-Small-Town-Support-0-29-screenshot-768x432.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cassidy Shear endured terrible hardship, but the generosity of friends, family, and strangers kept him afloat.<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie, Shear\u2019s wife, had just given birth to the couple\u2019s fifth child, a handsome son named Ridge. The young mother had a number of health difficulties, including a blood disease. A blood clot took her life just one day after Ridge was born, before she even got the chance to embrace her son.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Recently-Widowed-Father-Gets-Small-Town-Support-1-52-screenshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Recently-Widowed-Father-Gets-Small-Town-Support-1-52-screenshot.png 640w, https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Recently-Widowed-Father-Gets-Small-Town-Support-1-52-screenshot-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Shear, who had recently been a widower with five children to care for, swiftly returned to work to pay for his family, get insurance benefits, and ensure he could keep the family house they had recently purchased.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Recently Widowed Father Gets Small Town Support\" width=\"820\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ya8JxeaeO04?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Shear works full-time at a car dealership, his mom and McKenzie\u2019s mom take turns caring for baby Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has not complained once about all of the responsibility that has been put on his shoulders,\u201d Staci Christensen, McKenzie\u2019s mother, said to FOX 13.<\/p>\n<p>One day, a \u201ccustomer\u201d pulled up to the dealership during Shear\u2019s shift and said there was something wrong with his truck. The so-called customer \u2014 actually a member of the Fox 13 Dream Team \u2014 popped open the trunk to reveal a stash of diapers, formula, and other baby supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Shear\u2019s family and friends gathered around and there was one last gift in store for the dad.<\/p>\n<p>Pregnant and overcome with emotion, Krystellina Brown, another member of the Dream Team, presented the father with a red box.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnjoy our gift of mortgage payments for the rest of 2019 \u2014 compliments of the dream team,\u201d the emotional father read from a note inside the box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Utah widower was on the job at a car dealership when a show of love and support rolled into the service department. Cassidy Shear endured terrible hardship, but the generosity of friends, family, and strangers kept him afloat. 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