An anonymous donor stepped up quickly after he and his wife saw a KWTX-TV story about two elderly Waco women who were suffering through the searing summer without air conditioning.

Linzetter Blake, 87, and Althrie Smiley, 79, were shocked when the man and his wife drove up in a red pickup just an hour after the news story aired Thursday evening and presented them with two new 6,000-BTU window units.

"Yes, I cried I really did.” Smiley said.

“I've been praying and praying for good things to happen to me and it’s happening."

Smiley, 79, who lives in a small frame home on Lenox Street in East Waco, had two window units but they weren’t cooling,

“I’m on a fixed income and if I could, I’d buy Freon to put in the units but I can't so I went to the dollar store and bought a small fan that I set in my living room,” she said.

She said she was sleeping on the couch because her bedroom is too hot.

Smiley, who has only one kidney, and is dealing with other health issues as well, says she cared for people in nursing homes for more than 40 years.