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We’re always told any small good deed makes a difference. By that measure, a man named Albert Lexie made a world of it. For more than 30 years, Lexie worked as a shoeshiner at the University of ...
THAT WAS ALBERT LEXI. HE WAS A Albert Lexie, who shined shoes at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh for more than 30 years and donated over $200,000 in tips to a fund for patients, has died ...
Every Tuesday and Thursday, Albert Lexie shined shoes at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He did this every week, for 30 years. He died earlier this month at age 76. What makes Lexie’s ...
Albert Lexie, also known as the "Shoeshine Man," died Tuesday at the age of 76, the hospital confirms. He was from Monessen. Lexie was a philanthropist who spent 30 years walking the halls of ...
Albert Lexie died of an undisclosed health condition, according to University of Pittsburgh Medical Center officials. He was 76. Every Tuesday and Thursday for more than three decades, Lexie left ...
It starts before dawn in the Pittsburgh darkness, as the 88 Penn pulls up in front of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC and Albert Lexie gets off the bus.For 32 years, Lexie has been ...
Albert Lexie, who started working at the hospital in 1981, said he charges $5 for a shine but typically receives $6 or $7 and sometimes more. He routinely gives the collected tips, amounting to ...
Every Tuesday and Thursday, Albert Lexie shined shoes at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He did this every week, for 30 years. He died earlier this month at age 76. What makes Lexie’s ...
Every Tuesday and Thursday, Albert Lexie shined shoes at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. He did this every week, for 30 years, until his death at age 76 earlier this month. But what makes ...