![]() Mathieu is a member of Local 270 in New Orleans. Mathieu said he and his wife also have a “bonus son” who they are very close with, David, 27, who is in his second year of residency to be a medical doctor. ![]() In addition to Tyrann, 28, Mathieu and his wife, Sheila, a registered nurse for 31 years, have four other children: Tyrone Jr, 33, a registered nurse Devon, 30, training to be a cook Keviah, 26, an entrepreneur and Toyá, who is in her last year of nursing school. “As a Teamster, our whole family has benefitted and it has provided all of us with security.” “I’m very proud to belong to the most respected, most well renowned and most powerful union-the Teamsters,” Mathieu said. “Tyrann, before he signed his first professional football contract, was covered by my excellent insurance all the way through college and until he signed his first professional football contract,” Mathieu said. Mathieu, who started out as an unloader and has also been a preloader, air driver, cover driver and package-car driver, said his excellent health insurance has protected his wife, their five children and himself. I hope I made everybody in that building happy,” he said. They all know about the sacrifices we make every day, working hard to keep medical supplies, personal protection equipment and the vaccine moving. “I think about all the people I’ve grown up with in that building,” said Mathieu, who has worked at UPS for 29 years, since he was 24 years old. While Mathieu is grateful that he had this opportunity, he said his main goal was trying to honor the hard work of his co-workers, both at the New Orleans UPS hub where he works and across the country. “It was very rewarding to be able to tell millions of people what UPS Teamsters do day in and day out.” “I said, ‘We’re keeping America moving,’ and that is what we are doing every day,” said Mathieu, a feeder driver who transports packages in a tractor-trailer rig. Of viewers during a presentation before Super Bowl LV in early February. has been transporting vital medical supplies and the COVID-19 vaccine as an essential worker, and he got to share his thoughts with tens of millions This year Ozell’s son followed his dad’s example and helped those in need himself.UPS Driver Tyrone Mathieu Sr. “I never accept anything in return,” said Ozell. “We came to Tyrone with only the shirts on our backs, and there were like 70-80 people who I never met before giving us stuff when we got here,” said Ozell, “So every year I try to do something to give back.”Ī big man with long hair and a white beard, Ozell makes a perfect Santa and takes advantage of it every year by giving presents to local kids. They chose Tyrone because Ozell’s best friend from the military is from here and offered to host the Halls until they could find a place of their own. Tommy and his family are originally from Gulfport, Mississippi. The Halls experienced two house fires and lived through Hurricane Katrina in 2005.Īfter Katrina devastated their town, Ozell decided he’d had enough and decided to move far from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. “We’ve been there before, so we know,” said Ozell. ![]() Turns out, losing everything is something the Halls know all too well. “I thought whatever he decided to give, I was going to match,” said Ozell, “I had no idea he was going to give it all and he didn’t know until today that I was going to match it.” What Tommy didn’t know was that his dad had already decided to match his donation. “I didn’t have too many plans for the money,” said Tommy, “so I thought, why not? That way some kids could have presents.” ![]() Tommy decided to give all the money he had left to the Salvation Army. “We were Christmas shopping when told me that the school was doing something for the Salvation Army Church,” said Tommy’s dad, Ozell Hall, “we talked about him maybe giving some money to the cause.”
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