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Willie Nelson turns a pandemic gift into a PPE fundraiser with autographed masks

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Tanya Boike, a friend of Willie Nelson's granddaughter, Noelle Ward, recently started making masks to help slow the spread of COVID-19.

When she told Noelle she'd earmarked a pair for the 86-year-old music legend and his wife, Annie D'Angelo, Noelle said her grandfather had other plans for the gift. "[Noelle] texted me a few minutes later and said, 'Pops would rather sign these and have them auction them off.

That way you can get more materials and keep making these masks for free,'" Boike told Texas CBS affiliate KTRK. "I just lost it.

That's not what I had made them for," Boike marveled. By that point, the Houston resident and her friend, nurse Monica Cabazos, had already made and given away more than 500 masks, inspired in part by the

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