Not sure how many here will remember Dana one of our servers at River City Diner but I've just learned that she is terminally ill. I knew 2 or 3 years ago that she's been diagnosed with cervical cancer but she had been doing well and I believed she was on her way to recovery. Unfortunately it's been discovered recently that her cancer had returned and spread reaching her brain. Apparently there's nothing the doctors can do and she's been given a matter of week, maybe a month, to live.
Like her, then, room-mate Courtney, Dana was a great friend to the Breakfast Club, taking over as our primary server when RCD fired Courtney.
I look back on the days when she would sit and eat gummy bears with Logan when he was about 2 years old, and the time when he was maybe 3 and they were chasing each other around an almost empty diner and she ran behind the counter, grabbing the soda hose and pointed it at him and Logan stopped still in his tracks and went "uh oh". Dana was the one who handed him a wet cloth and got him cleaning the tables in there, something he loved doing. And I can never forget the day Dana had him acting as a host and Logan took these 2 middle aged women to a table, put their menus and cutlery down and invited them to take a seat, they turned to Dana and said it was cute but they'd like to be seated properly, she just looked at them, looked at the table and said "you can sit down there, that's where I would have put you anyway"
For now they're trying to get Dana out of the hospital so she can spend her last days with her boyfriend, Jonathan, and their family. As far as I know Sheppard Street Tavern (2922 Park Avenue, Richmond, VA 23221) will be a collection location if anyone cares to help the family out financially, and at any point during business hours you may leave a direct contribution with the staff, just let them know it's for Dana Littlefield.
Dana is a good person and doesn't deserve this.
Like her, then, room-mate Courtney, Dana was a great friend to the Breakfast Club, taking over as our primary server when RCD fired Courtney.
I look back on the days when she would sit and eat gummy bears with Logan when he was about 2 years old, and the time when he was maybe 3 and they were chasing each other around an almost empty diner and she ran behind the counter, grabbing the soda hose and pointed it at him and Logan stopped still in his tracks and went "uh oh". Dana was the one who handed him a wet cloth and got him cleaning the tables in there, something he loved doing. And I can never forget the day Dana had him acting as a host and Logan took these 2 middle aged women to a table, put their menus and cutlery down and invited them to take a seat, they turned to Dana and said it was cute but they'd like to be seated properly, she just looked at them, looked at the table and said "you can sit down there, that's where I would have put you anyway"
For now they're trying to get Dana out of the hospital so she can spend her last days with her boyfriend, Jonathan, and their family. As far as I know Sheppard Street Tavern (2922 Park Avenue, Richmond, VA 23221) will be a collection location if anyone cares to help the family out financially, and at any point during business hours you may leave a direct contribution with the staff, just let them know it's for Dana Littlefield.
Dana is a good person and doesn't deserve this.
