WHO WAS ALBERT LEXIE?

Lexie was born in 1942 in a housing project and at age 15 built a shoeshine box in high school shop class. He never got further than Grade 8, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, but would haul his wooden shoeshine box to businesses up and down the Mon Valley in Pittsburgh. Then, from 1982 to 2013 — every Tuesday and Thursday — he would leave his home at 5:50 a.m., and take several buses so he could arrive at exactly 7:25 a.m. at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.