in this white fraem house on main street, lauren quietly amassed he held on to it for a while. reporter: a fortune. let me see it. i have never seen a check like that before. reporter: that first $20,000 check was followed by two more, $100,000 each. he said, my god, look at this. look at this. reporter: up until then the seniors had been getting by on what the county gave them, $600 a year. well, we got $220,000 total. reporter: and lauren wasn t done. sdmree loved his church. reporter: lauren willed roughly $1 million to st. path rick s catholic church. he came here for many, many, many years, and then he revealed i think we re blessed. reporter: when lauren let the presbyterians more than $100,000 too. we re looking at the new steel roof that we put on our church thanks to lauren. reporter: checks for the same amount were delivered to bethany bible church and to the