86-Year-Old Pauline Monk Sees Sissonville Taco Bell Open After Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 6
86-Year-Old Pauline Monk Sees Sissonville Taco Bell Open After Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 6
Summary
Pauline Monk, 86, attended the grand opening of Sissonville’s new Taco Bell, fulfilling a years-long wish she feared she would miss after doctors diagnosed her with stage 4 cancer.
Her son, Dana Ferrell, had pushed to bring the restaurant to the West Virginia town and brought her to the ribbon cutting, where waiting customers cheered and dubbed her the “Taco Bell Queen.”
Monk said doctors told her she had only months to live and advised against chemotherapy because of her age; she later learned the cancer had spread to her lungs.
The attention turned her into a local and online sensation, but Monk said the bigger story is the support now returning from family, church and neighbors she spent years helping.
Grounded in her Christian faith, Monk said she is at peace with her illness and wants to keep encouraging others while she can.