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News/Obits October 30, 2021 first things they wanted when Prairiefire Vickers and Kilhoffer share memorable ones. Some not the thing is, sometimes this that that blessing especially so great,” they laughed. They they started working with restaurant will be like a sec- came through in 2020 when share that one of their servers, “Chef Bud” was a “really good ‘ond marriage, but it will come the COVID pandemic saw Stephanie, has been with Prai- salmon that could stand on its first. I need to know that you their dining room shut for six riefire all but the first couple of own with no sauce.” Salmon is will stick around and support their customers go from being weeks while they served car- months that they were open. now one of their most popular me during those times.” She Continued from page 1. ryout only while functioning “We have some very loyal em- dishes and their salmon salad said that he was agreeable. Kil- in middle school to ordering at 30%. Still, their customers ployees, some very long term often sees seasonal variations. hoffer shares that she had the center, Mary’s Bloomers. cocktails or that they've seen Coming from a farming and It seems, however, that the la- others add to their families. showed their loyalty and they ones as well,” they shared. same talk with her husband, found themselves team- Kilhoffer says that when they ranching background and also “the thing is, we have cattle, he dies’ worries were for naught Of course, as is life, they've even ing with Hutch’s convenience hire someone new, she tells knowing that they're in “meat works until five or six at night. as they say that customers also seen the lose of some of stores to offer take home them “I'm not here to be a and potato country,” they were Then he goes out and checks “showed up in a big way” and their longtime, loyal custom- meals. Once they were able to friend,” but admits that over sure as well not to leave peo- cattle. Or he might be planting ten years later they've had din- ers that they had come to call ple asking “where's the beef?” wheat or whatever. So he’s not fully open, they say that their time, they become friends and ers that were everything from friends. The restaurateurs also priorities were the same, “a like her own kids. They're also Really all of their dishes are homea lot in the evenings and Route 66 tourists, to locals, say that the community is very popular, as Vickers and Kilhof- when he is, he controls the re- friendly face, great meal, great very cognizant of the fact that to regulars, to snowbirds that supportive of one another in fer explain that they're never mote, It doesn’t bother him for conversation and making sure most of their team are also done a major overhaul of their me to not be there, it doesn’t stop by twice a year on their that they always send travel- that you leave happier than parents, so if a majority of way through and even people ers to each other whether it's when you walked in.” the staff's got kids playing in menu because all of their dish- bother him for me to be there. from Africa and Europe. Over someone that stopped at the ‘The business partners found a game or say, there's inclem- es sell well and people would We've been married forev- the ten years that they've been museum or a shop downtown themselves reminiscing about ent weather, they don’t have a be upset at the removal of er and it's fine by me to go to open, the pair also share that and being told to go to Prairief- their favorite meal. They do, work.” He does, however, often the employees they've had over problem closing for a night if however, have special dishes join them at the restaurant for it’s been a long enough time ire or vice versa. “We've been the last decade. “We've had they see fit. that they've seen some of very blessed,” Vickers says, as well as seasonal offerings dinner, they explain of their “that word of mouth has really some great employees over the As for Prairiefire’s menu, the on food as well as drinks. Most husband and father. helped us grow and maintain.” years. We've had some more ladies explained that one of the of all, they want their menu to The ladies say that it took be comprised of simple, fresh them some time to figure out Round ingredients that combine to that happy Town Through a daughter’s eyes: is make powerful flavors. ‘They medium and to realize that attribute a lot of that to Chef they don’t have to be there ev- Bud, who they say they can call ery single shift. Now, they're up with thoughts and ideas comfortable with it, though October 31 City wide Halloween the journey ever really over? and hear back with from him they say if they happen to stop not long after with a sugges- in to take care of something and their servers are “in the tion. ‘Trick or Treating. Staff Writer recalls Kilhoffer and Vickers shared some more reflection from weeds,” they have no problem jumping in to lend a hand. November 4 their ten years, “We're not in Not much has really changed at “Mama’s” TNBC experience Heart to Heart Pregnan- it to get rich by any means and Prairiefire in the decade since they first opened; the menu cy fundraiser. Doors open you're not going to be even has stayed largely the same at 6:30 p.m., event begins if we were. But we're here to at7 p.m. ways swollen. She can't have make a living. The one thing as well as the interior of the any needles put in that arm, we do have, is that we can en- building that still possesses have blood pressure taken on joy it along the way. We figured many of its historic touches in- November6 it or even carrya purse on that cluding the stained glass above Berlin Community shoulder. out along the way that most of the doors and the original ceil- Building will be hosting ‘They gave her some time to the time, you will see at least heal from the surgery before one of us here, if not both of ings, but they are currently un- the annual Thanksgiving beginning the second round of us here, and the reason we do dergoing one change - they're dinner on November 6, at chemo. This time it was a treat- adding a patio. Kilhoffer and that is because we want you 6:00 pm. This dinner will ment every week for twelve weeks, which meant a lot of to know that we are working Vickers say that they're hop- include all the following: trips to “The City.” No Red this business just as hard as ing that it'll be open by spring and that they envision it being turkey, ham, dressing, steroids that gave her an in- our employees. We wash dish- a space in which people can Devil this round but there were sweet potatoes, mashed es, we've worked in the kitch- creased appetite. Mom worked hangout and have a drink. potatoes, green beans, the entire time she was under- en, we've scrubbed things.’ “We've been pretty blessed corn, tossed salad, cranber- TNBC survivor Frankie Hanrahan (Mama of ECN’s staff going her cancer treatment. Of course, they've both felt writer) got this tattoo after being declared cancer free. ‘The only days she didn’t work support from their husbands over the last ten years,” the ries, hot rolls and home- made pies/ desserts. “Believe” has become a mantra for her as she feels that it were those on which she chemo, and towards the end of had along the way. Vickers shares, pair shared, “we've made a lot took belief in more than one thing to get her through her of friends, maybe a few ene- ‘The cost of the dinner is the second round, when it had “When we first started to do by donation. Come out and encounter with cancer. Courtesy photo. built up so much in her system this, I sat down with my hus- mies along the way. Not too that her skin “felt like it was go- band, and I said, ‘I love you, many I hope,” Kilhoffer said haye a wonderful home- By Burgundy LeeHanrahan they had the results. She asked ing to explode” and she felt so. but you need to know what with a laugh, “but we've been made dinner on November that they not make her wait awful that she really couldn't 6. ‘Though Belynda Kilhoffer’s over the weekend. The woman get out of bed for about a week. you're signing up for. Because really blessed.” breast cancer experience had on the other end said that they She made it through, though, some major differences com- usually send the results to the like she had been, and began November 7 pared to the other survivors referring doctor but since she her series of 35 radiation treat- Parker Noble Dalight Savings Time that we introduced you to this had asked, “I'm sorry to have ments, Thankfully she was able month, she is, unfortunately to tell you, 80% of women who to get these in Elk City rather Begins. Set clocks back an not alone in having had triple have a biopsy don’t have can- than having to go to OKC so Parker Mauricell Noble was hour. negative breast cancer (TNBC) cer, but you're one of the ones she would go get her treatment born February 15th, 2010 in ~ 10 to 20% of breast cancer di- that does.” in the morning and then go Ft. Smith, Arkansas to Ashlee November 11 agnoses are TNBC. My Mama I asked Mom when I got back to Sayre and go to work. Ellen (Newman) and Lance is in that group. home from work that day She had her last radiation Parker Noble. He passed away Veteran’s Day My mom, Frankie Hanrah- whether she had heard about treatment on June 2, 2014 Sunday, October 24th, 2021 in an, who some may know from her results. She had. It was and on Aug, 8 saw her doctor Oklahoma City, Oklahoma at the many years she spent as stage three triple negative in- again and had it confirmed the age of 11 years, 8 months November 19 the director of the cafeteria vasive ductal carcinoma. That that she was cancer free. That's 40th Annual Oklahoma at Sayre Schools, the time she kind of news really changes the date that we kind of tend and 9 days. National Jr. Heifer Show worked at the doughnut shop things for a family. It seems to use as the anniversary, Parker spent his early child- or her time as the food ser- like it takes forever to actual- though we really wait until her hood in Greenwood, Arkansas vice manager at the DOC work ly go through all the testing now yearly appointments with and always enjoyed watching November 20 center in Sayre or maybe from to find out if someone has her oncologist and her annual Mickey Mouse, From a young 40th Annual Oklahoma some place else, had a mam- cancer, but once you do find mammograms before we really age he liked being at home and National Jr. Heifer Show mogram on April 20, 2013. It out, things really speed up. It consider it another year cancer didn't care to leave his house came back fine. In June she wasn’t long before Mama was free, This year’s was on Oct. 21. except to go swing at a park or lea, Elk City, OK, Kim Beggs felt a lump in her left breast having her port put in and Mama says that she was really in the back yard. It was always and husband, Sam, Sugar Loaf, November 25 and in July she realized that it then starting chemo. ‘he first worried this year for whatever a special time when mom or AR; 4 aunts, Brooke Hurd, Rog- Thanksgiving. had grown. She went back in round of chemo consisted of reason. However, everything for another mammogram. At four treatments, one every two looked fine and we can now grandma was able to rock him. ersville, TN, Samantha Larnard 7 p.m. on a Sunday night our weeks. They had the Red Devil gratefully say that she’s seven Parker was well taken care of and husband, Darrin, Monroe, November 26 doctor called her and told that in them. They would give the years cancer free. by his live in nurse/sister by lis- Black Friday Sales she needed to have a biopsy. patients two Benadryl (just In the years since she fin- tening to his heart, feeding him LA, Autum Poston and hus- She was sent to Mercy where ‘one of those knocks mom out, ished treatment her hair's and giving him his medication. band, Aaron, Cashion, OK and she had the biopsy. She'd also so two was something) because grown back. She’s also dealt He was always mobile because Lucinda Eberhard and hus- Christmas in the Park had an ultrasound at one point reactions were common, and with other health stuff like brother loved to push him band, Chris, Greenwood, AR; and would say later on that also nausea medication. At one three total knee replacements. his in his wheelchair. Parker even 1 unde, Derik Brady, Kilgore, November 27 when they scanned under her of the treatments, they pushed It didn’t take long after finish- was able to finish a number of TX; cousins, Hunter White, Bo arm and she saw three spots the meds through the IV and ing all of her treatments for Christmas in the Park on the screen, she “knew she mom immediately felt like nerve damage to show up in Harry Potter books from his Eberhard, Adalyn Poston, Aus- was in trouble.” The biopsy was she was going to vomit. The her feet and legs — she’s been nurses at the hospital reading tin Poston, Jake Hurd, Luke November 28 performed on Thursday, Sept. bates hal forgotten the nau- told that the chemo’s to blame to him. Some of the families Hurd, Emarie Rushing and Ri- 5 and the next day, Sept. 6, she sea medication. Those couple for that. The chemo also de- most special times were in the Christmas in the Park called the clinic where it had of months were very rough. It stroyed her teeth. She’s got mornings when they would say ley Bell Brady and a host of oth- been performed and asked if wasn’t long before Mom start- lymphedema in her left arm, his name and he would smile er relatives and friends. ed losing her hair. Eventually some residual skin effects from and cut his eyes. Parker was Funeral services will be held "ElkCituNews she had our family friend and the radiation and she can’t loved by many family, friends, Wednesday, October 27, 2021 long time hairdresser shave it; handle wearing a necklace ever and people far and wide. at 1:00 PM at One Church of- she says that was one of the since she had the port. The fear Parker is survived by his ficiated by Brannan Duncan. toughest parts of the whole of reoccurrence is always at the ordeal (I could delve into why back of the mind, especially as parents, Lance and Ashlee No- Arrangements are under the that likely is, (society, etc.) but the annual tests and appoint- ble, of the home; 2 siblings, direction of Chris Whinery and T digress). The chemo made her ments approach. There's oth- Maddex and Annabelle Noble, the staff of Affordable Crema- (USPS # 173-020) 80 sick that she spent a lot of er emotions, too, like sadness also of the home; grandparents, 580-225-3000 time puking and dry heaving. and guilt when someone's di- Lawrence Noble, Ft. Smith, AR, tion Service-West. Condolenc- She lost a lot of weight because agnosed and especially when Lisa Noble, Greenwood, AR, es can be made online at www. 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