KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Kansas City, Kansas, father and grandfather hit and killed crossing the road moments after lending a helping hand to a homeless man.

“Let God work his plan – his plan is perfect. We can’t question it. We don’t doubt it. We’re just thankful for the time we had with him. He was a phenomenal person,” Aldonna Daniels, John Daniels Sr. wife, said.

That deacon’s wife of nearly six decades is reflecting on a life well-lived.

John Daniels was hit Sunday afternoon as he was headed home from church. He was struck just two minutes from his house.

“The homeless man he stopped to give the money to said he had given him money two or three times before, and so the guy knew him,” Aldonna said. “And he said the last thing he told was, looked him straight in the eye and said, ‘Remember, Jesus really loves you,’ and then it happened.”

The 80-year-old had five children, 14 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Family said he was a kindhearted, giving person, who wouldn’t waste your time. He’d just tell you what he thought.

“He was a funny. He said what he meant and meant what he said. He lived that, walked that out. Everybody who knew him loved him,” Joy Edwards, John’s daughter, said.

Sunday, when Daniels stopped near N. 38th Street and I-635 to help a homeless person, minutes from arriving home, it was just who he was. It also would be the last thing that he did.

As he crossed the road back to his car, he was hit and he died on the scene.

“While we are sad and disheartened, we’re not angry, we’re not bitter, forgiving and loving and praying for the person that hit him, as well as the man he stopped to help,” Edwards said

The faithful deacon lived his last day like he lived every day.

“Before he left church, he was going around telling everybody I love you, I love you, Jesus loves you, Jesus loves you,” his wife said.

Aldonna knew her husband for 67 years, they were married for 58.

In the middle of this, losing her person, her mind is stayed on who he was.

That’s keeping her eyes clear of tears and her heart full of gratitude, gratitude for the time she did have with John.

“I know what he’s about, and he would want me to have peace about it, knowing that he believed in God and he died doing what he does,” Aldonna said.

The irony, they say, in all of this, something they say they’ll laugh about is the one thing that every kid, grandkid and great-grandkid was spanked by John for crossing the street without looking.

KCKPD is still investigating this and at this time. It is believed that this crash was simply an accident.