Lawmakers are cutting $2.1 million from a home-delivered meal program for senior citizens.

"Just think of the people who don't have a family and nobody can take care of them, and so we are the angels for them," said Higbee volunteer Geneveive Lynch.

Lyda Versluis is also concerned because the program helps her husband, who's on oxygen full-time.

"That [program] relieves us both," Versluis said. "It gives him a hot meal and it gives me an outlet that I enjoy doing."

The senior citizens all across the state are lobbying hard to protect this program.

"We've all got together as state of Missouri senior centers and we have decided to do an SOS campaign - Save our Seniors," administrator Kathy Bartolacci said.

As for small communities like Higbee that lacks corporate donations, finding money would be a tough venture.