‘Stubborn’ administrator convinced to seek 2nd mammogram within 3 months after anomaly found

Jayme Steighner was gathering her husband and two daughters for a photograph in front of the touristy Pineapple Fountain in Charleston, S.C.

The cellphone within her purse began to ring near noon Aug. 9, 2022, not long before the vacationing Saxonburg family had planned to walk to a nearby Irish restaurant for lunch.

Butler Memorial Hospital read the caller identification on her screen.

“She kind of meandered away from us,” said Steighner’s husband, Cory. “Her head was nodding. She was looking down. She glanced at me out of the corner of her eye and had tears coming down.”

Cory and the couple’s eldest daughter, Kendyl, then 19 and five days away from leaving home as a college freshman, knew St

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