If you were looking for the most believable, honest, giving person in Greenville, South Carolina.

She grew up in an orphaned, South Carolina. She grew up in an orphanage,

a Salvation Army orphanage.

Someone who spent nearly seven decades on her feet,

serving others.

She was worked in the clothing house,

clear stores, the church.

Someone who understood what it meant

to rise above a tough upbringing.

She never went to school.

She did not know how to read and write.

You'd only need to meet a woman most people knew as Miss May.

She had a Sunday school class of infants, nursery basically.

In 1932, she was Greenville's first Salvation Army Christmas time bell ringer.

In front of Woolworth there at Washington, Maine, every year during Christmas.

And after that, she worked to help others for another 68 years, running a summer camp's first aid service,

managing a thrift store, cooking in a soup kitchen, and collecting donations on foot all over Greenville.

When people celebrated Miss May's retirement in the year 2000, they told those kinds of stories.

19 years later, if you talk to the right people,

you might hear some lesser told tales.

She used to run Boothleg Lickers.

Her in, my daddy used to grow moonshine.

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