READ: Waitress pens special message for grieving customers who lost baby

Just over a month ago, Shaun and Debbie Riddle and their new baby, Glory, went to eat at the West Side Cafe in Fort Worth, Texas.

Waitress Kayla Lane served them and their little bundle of joy - and so, when they walked back in last week, she recognised them immediately.

“I remember people,” she told CBS Dallas Fort Worth. “I’m really good at remembering people.”

But, this time, they had come without baby Glory, so Kayla asked about their daughter.

Immediately, she realised that something terrible had happened.

“They kind of looked at each other and were very silent,” she explained.

To Kayla’s horror, the couple told her that 9-week-old Glory had passed away during a nap just a few weeks before.

“Sadly we had to tell her baby Glory passed away and is with God now,” Debbie Riddle wrote on her Facebook page. “She felt so horrible for asking but she was so sweet.”

Kayla, desperate to do something for the Riddles, did the only thing she could think of.

And so, when it came to paying at the end of the meal,the couple found a handwritten note instead of a bill.

It read simply: "Your ticket has been paid for. We are terribly sorry for your loss. God bless. –The West Side"

Touched, Shaun and Debbie insisted on at least paying her tip, but Kayla told them that her company had already taken care of it.

In reality, she had paid for the meal out of her own pocket.

"I feel privileged that I’m able to do it," she told KTVT.

Taking to Facebook, Debbie and Shaun praised Kayla for being so kind to them when they needed it most - and to speak about their little girl.

And, most heartwarmingly of all, they said that Kayla’s sweet gesture has helped them to believe that their baby touched the lives of the people she met in her short life.

"We were grateful to see that there are good people in the world and that people want to help," Debbie Riddle told KTVT.