{"id":441,"date":"2026-10-03T14:16:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2026-10-03T14:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T14:16:59","slug":"hes-100-and-still-building-toy-cars-for-kids-hell-never-meet-wwii-navy-vet-keeps-operation-christmas-child-rolling-from-his-sulphur-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"HE&#8217;S 100 AND STILL BUILDING TOY CARS FOR KIDS HE&#8217;LL NEVER MEET! | WWII Navy vet keeps Operation Christmas Child rolling from his Sulphur workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 100 years old, Bill Covington of the Sulphur \/ Lake Charles, Louisiana area still spends his days in his workshop tracing, cutting, sanding, and gluing little wooden cars \u2014 more than <strong>100 this year alone<\/strong> \u2014 for Houston River Baptist Church and <strong>Operation Christmas Child<\/strong>, the shoebox ministry that ships toys and necessities to children overseas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplctv.com\/2026\/10\/03\/100-sulphur-man-still-building-toy-cars-children-overseas-hell-never-meet\/\">KPLC<\/a> reported (published Oct. 2, 2026).<\/p>\n<p>A World War II Navy veteran, Covington earned a Purple Heart after friendly fire tore through his ship and injured him and another sailor. He taught Sunday school until he was 98. He\u2019s losing his eyesight now, but he\u2019s not quitting. His secret, he says: <strong>\u201cJust keep working. Don\u2019t quit.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wife Earlene \u2014 they\u2019ve been together 14 years \u2014 says he\u2019s done <strong>over 1,000<\/strong> cars over the years (\u201cwe\u2019ve done 100 for three years, and then we\u2019ve done 60 a bunch\u201d). His first wife, Ruth, who lived with him 55 years before she died, told him to build the workshop he\u2019d always wanted. Somewhere overseas, a child will open a shoebox and find a handmade wooden car \u2014 and never know the 100-year-old locomotive still rolling in Sulphur.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kplctv.com\/2026\/10\/03\/100-sulphur-man-still-building-toy-cars-children-overseas-hell-never-meet\/\">KPLC \u2014 Devin Cruice and Morgan Babineaux<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWII Navy vet keeps Operation Christmas Child rolling from his Sulphur workshop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-covington-cars-1003.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}