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My Dad and Mom opened Cortner's in 1965 while all of us children, including Ron, were teenagers. My sister and I were there the first days the doors opened, me as a carhop! I was only 13, Ron 14, Debbie 15 and Eddy 17 and we were all in school. We worked after school, on weekends, and full-time in summer. I have many memories of our family restaurant and am devastated that it is gone, as is my Mom! I worked there many years off and on,sometimes without pay, skipping college classes to help out because the help didn't show. I helped run the business when my Dad got sick. It was a family endeavor in which each one of us children contributed at one time or another.

WHERE do I start?

My sister & I ate every Sat without fail. Cortner's became our home on Sat. We always brought our newspaper game page in with us and worked it while waiting for our meal. And the food! Cortner's was THE BEST for wonderful homemade biscuits and gravy, fluffy pancakes & waffles and they always cooked my egg just the way I liked it..over hard. The staff was just like family! The warm, homey atmosphere was like eating breakfast in Mom's kitchen!

In fact a friend and I were going to eat there on 4-23. She too became a fan of that wonderful food and I know she'll be as devastated as I am to hear it's closed.

May God richly bless the Cortner family. I will miss Cortner's SO MUCH.

Helen Merritt