US widower and veteran fights grief and PTSD by offering home repairs – for free

Danny Chauvin, 76, the honey-do dude' of Mississippi, fixes doors and unclogs drains to protect his mental health after his wife died

A retired US military veteran is coping with grief from his wife's death and post-traumatic stress from fighting in the Vietnam war by providing daily handyman services to people in his community - for free.

Danny Chauvin is the so-called honey-do dude" of Waveland, Mississippi, according to a CBS Evening News profile of him published Friday. He told the news program that one of his favorite parts of his marriage to his wife had been the small, mostly repair and building tasks she would ask him to complete around the house, which Americans colloquially refer to as honey-do" jobs.