Saturday August 4th: My buddy Ed and I visited a yard sale. The yard sale was run by an older gentleman that seemed to have a hard time getting around. After looking over the yard and noticing a little bit of everything, we bought a couple things.After I paid the man, he asked me to spread the word to anyone interested. He told me he had stage 4 cancer and will not live much longer. He then said he plans to sell every weekend and hopes to not have stays in the hospital so he can sell his stuff. After giving him a strange look, he told me he has to sell everything he owns to pay for his funeral. We've all thought our lives were bad and we are going thru rough times, but imagine worrying about selling all of your belongings before you pass away, just so you can be buried with with your parents. After thinking about it all day, Ed and I are determined to help this man.Sunday August 5th:I returned to the man's house to ask him a few questions and ask for his permission to help him out. I then spent the next hour with him talking about his illness, he showed me doctors reports, information from when he was in the navy, and so on. This was way more than I needed to know. But I think he was just happy that someone wanted to help him.The man's name is Willie and he lives in Brownstown, a borough located in Johnstown, Pa. Willie served in the United States Navy from 1970-1976. He was very proud to show me his picture taken while he served. Willie is a single man with no help and has been forced to try and make ends meet on his own.Willie is suffering from Squamous Cell Carcinoma and his time is extremely limited. His wish is to buried right beside his parents in the cemetery plot that he owns in Culpeper, VA. After meeting and talking to someone like him, I would love to raise any money we can to help this man and allow him to relax during his final days. I would love to assure him that he will be buried with his parents. I ask that you please make any donation, every little bit will help. If you have any questions feel free to contact me. Thank you for your time. 
 
 
 
 October 2, 2018 Update: 
 
 
 
 Good morning, 
 
 
 
 We wanted to provide an update concerning how the funds will be withdrawn. Based on their policies and security procedures, GoFundMe has requested that Willie be directly responsible for withdrawing the funds at the conclusion of the campaign. Willie will be depositing the funds into a bank account specifically for the campaign funds, until his funeral arrangements are made. 
 
 
 
 Once Willie’s funeral expenses and any applicable taxes/fees/etc. are paid for, the remaining available funds will be used to help other veterans struggling to cover funeral costs. We are currently working with Willie to determine the best way to distribute the funds. Any additional updates will be posted here on the page. 
 
 
 
 We would like to once again thank everyone who has donated and shared throughout the campaign, and we encourage you to continue to share Willie’s story. 
 
 Share Tweet 4.7k shares on Facebook shares on Facebook ||||| One man is selling his belongings to pay for his own funeral, and two strangers have stepped up to help. (WJAC) 
 
 JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (WJAC) - Driving through town, you often come across yard sales. Everyone has a different reason for cleaning out the house or just trying to make some extra cash. 
 
 But for one Cambria County man, there's a bigger reason he's selling his belongings. 
 
 
 
 One man is selling his items to pay for a funeral and two strangers have stepped up to help. 
 
 For several weeks, Willie Davis has been setting up his blue canopy and selling his possessions in a yard sale in Brownstown. 
 
 Last month, David Dunkleberger was one of his customers. 
 
 "At the end, when we bought a few things, he said to me, 'If you know of anybody else interested, I'm trying to sell all my stuff to pay for a funeral.' And when I said, 'Whose funeral?' He said, 'Mine,'" Dunkleberger said. 
 
 That didn't sit well with Dunkleberger, so he went back out to the car to tell his friend, Ed Sheets. 
 
 "It broke your heart, hearing the story, and we just decided we had to do something to try and help him, try to make his life a little bit easier," Sheets said. 
 
 Davis is a Navy veteran who served for six years, starting in 1970. He served during the Vietnam War. 
 
 Now he has terminal cancer: stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma. 
 
 "He's done a lot serving our country, so we wanted to kind of return the favor to him so that, again, his last days could be a little less hectic, a little more peaceful for him," Sheets said. 
 
 Dunkleberger and Sheets started a GoFundMe, with a goal of raising $5,000. 
 
 "His parents have a burial spot in Culpeper, Virginia, and there's a spot for him, obviously, and with that's going to come some financial obstacles," Dunkleberger said. 
 
 That's his final wish -- a wish that could cost up to $15,000. 
 
 Even with health issues, being in and out of the hospital and in hospice care, Davis finds time to set up his yard sale. 
 
 "He tries to do them every weekend he's able to do them," Sheets said. "He just told us yesterday that when he sets it up, he actually sets it up Thursday to run it Friday and Saturday." 
 
 Two strangers who saw a man in need say they're now in a race against time to grant Davis' final wish. 
 
 Both Dunkleberger and Sheets say the support from strangers, just like they were at first, is amazing, and they say every little bit helps. 
 
 "I've seen a lot of messages on there of people that, you know, they saw it and they have no idea who Willie is," Sheets said. "They've never even been to Johnstown, but they saw the story and said, 'We want to get involved. We want to help.' And it's been amazing." ||||| Willie Davis, a US Navy veteran who is dying from cancer, sits in his garage among many of his belongings, which he's trying to sell to help pay for his own funeral, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, in Johnstown,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Willie Davis, a US Navy veteran who is dying from cancer, sits in his garage among many of his belongings, which he's trying to sell to help pay for his own funeral, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, in Johnstown, Pa. (John Rucosky/Tribune-Democrat via AP) (Associated Press) 
 
 Willie Davis, a US Navy veteran who is dying from cancer, sits in his garage among many of his belongings, which he's trying to sell to help pay for his own funeral, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, in Johnstown, Pa. (John Rucosky/Tribune-Democrat via AP) (Associated Press) Willie Davis, a US Navy veteran who is dying from cancer, sits in his garage among many of his belongings, which he's trying to sell to help pay for his own funeral, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, in Johnstown,... (Associated Press) 
 
 BROWNSTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man has been holding yard sales to pay for funeral expenses. His own. 
 
 Some of his customers are going a step further to help. 
 
 David Dunkleberger says he and his friend Ed Sheets pulled into a yard sale in Brownstown last month. He says the man running it, Willie Davis, told him he was selling his belongings to pay for a funeral. 
 
 When asked whose funeral, the 66-year-old Davis replied: "Mine." 
 
 Davis, who served in the Navy in the 1970s, has been diagnosed with stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma. 
 
 Ed Sheets tells WJAC-TV it "broke your heart" hearing Davis's story and they wanted to help him "so his last days could be a little more peaceful." 
 
 The two set up a GoFundMe page to help offset funeral costs.
– A Pennsylvania man has been holding yard sales to pay for funeral expenses. The catch, as per the AP: It's his own. Some of his customers are going a step further to help. David Dunkleberger says he and his friend Ed Sheets pulled into a yard sale in Brownstown last month. He says the man running it, Willie Davis, told him he was selling his belongings to pay for a funeral. When asked whose funeral, the 66-year-old Davis replied: "Mine." Davis, who served in the Navy in the 1970s, has been diagnosed with stage 4 squamous cell carcinoma. He hopes to be buried next to his parents in Culpeper, Va. Sheets tells WJAC it "broke your heart" hearing Davis' story, so the two set up a GoFundMe page to help offset funeral costs; as of this writing, more than $21,000 has been raised. "He's done a lot serving our country, so we wanted to kind of return the favor to him so that, again, his last days could be a little less hectic, a little more peaceful for him," Sheets says.