Shop Rite-Tobacco Plus stores made a major donation Wednesday to the St. Jude's Research Hospital.

The group handed over proceeds from its fundraising efforts to support the work in pediatric care being done at St. Jude's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN.

John Dan Gielen and his company presented a check for a little more than $124,000.

The Shop Rite/Tobacco Plus group is the largest independently owned convenience store chain in Louisiana with 59 locations across the state.