Ruby Foreman and Yvonne Harris, two sisters from California, were worried about their elderly mother who lives in Buffalo.

70-year-old Iola Jones had not answered her phone for a two days. Foreman knew something was wrong.

"And I called her and there was no answer," said Foreman. "No answer, no answer."

They were thousands of miles away. Desperate for someone to help their mother, Foreman thought of the kind young woman who fills her mother's prescriptions.

"Some light went off in my head. Call Rite Aid." And that's what Foreman did.

Pharmacy tech Shawndra Peacock answered the phone and rushed to Jones' Gibson Street home.

Inside, she found the woman unresponsive on the floor. Jones was rushed to Erie County Medical Center where she remains hospitalized. Family members said her condition is improving.

On Thursday, the sisters flew to Buffalo from their homes in California to thank Peacock personally, showering her with flowers and a round-trip airplane ticket to Hawaii.

But Peacock said she was just doing the right thing.

"I love Ms. Jones. You called me I'm going. That's that. I love all my customers. Ms. Jones always been there for me and my grandmother. When she called I went. That was it," Peacock said.

Peacock graciously accepted the flowers, but turned down the plane ticket.

Jones is recovering at Erie County Medical Center.