our team welcomes you

At the Wichita Mountains Lodge, our goal is to deliver the premier luxury stay in the region. Our team members -- Amy, Tony, Rosa, Jessica, Tessa, Judie, and Trevon -- are more than just cleaners, maintenance personnel, etc. They are your hosts, your resources, and a valuable part of keeping our stays in top-notch condition.

You will see them at our homes taking photos, posting Facebook live streams, taking videos, completing turnover, dropping off local bakery bread for your stay, and so much more. They are the key to your successful, fun, comfortable, event-free stay.

amy harrelson

Amy Harrelson takes the lead in coordinating turnover, changes to property, and ensuring that everything you need is available for your stay, whether it's salt and pepper or a replacement chair.

Amy Harrelson

tony vann

 Tony Vann manages most maintenance needs and improvement projects plus being a key member of our turnover team.  He's a regular attendee at Medicine Park events and always helping improve maintainability and quality of our homes.  Keep an eye out, you may see Jennifer, Tony's other half.  She often pitches in when we are short on staff

Tony Vann

jessica may-watkins

Jessica is a mother of five and the fastest turnover in the West.  She's quite simply amazing as she rockets through homes with her infant in tow delivering super high quality cleans and pinch hitting for local calls as she is our nearest support to all of our homes.

jessica May-watkins

rosa carr

Rosa brings deep turnover and property maintennance experience.  We assign her when we want to apply a deep clean to a home or we have something requiring special attention to detail.  When she isn't turning over for us, she's on sports fields all over Oklahoma with her large clan.

rosa carr

tessa stone

Tessa is our newest Lawton based help. She started a few months ago and has proven to be a reliable, consistent team member who brings a bit of humor to her work. When she’s not making ready our homes, Tessa is a dedicated gamer.

Tessa stone

judie ogbonnia

Judie Ogbonnia is our fulltime social media support. Judie is a native Nigerian and works fulltime from there. She’s 6 hours ahead and her spoken English is clear and easy to understand plus her written English is faultless. She follows up with all of our messenger contacts, creating and sending booking quotes to prospective guests, responding to questions, and more.

judie ogbonnia

toyin kayode

For two years, Toyin has been a key team member. She is fast, thorough and attentative to guest needs.. She covers weekend guest turnovers between graduate studies.

Toyin Kayode

About Your Hosts

Blake is a native Oklahoman whose family came to OK during the 1889 Land Run. Blake grew up on a cattle farm east of Oklahoma City. He left OK to attend the US Naval Academy and graduated as a US Marine. He spent his career working in start up IT, telecom, property management and disaster relief.

Sara grew up on a small town newspaper in North Carolina and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She spent her career in Washington, DC working for 3 Presidents (Reagan, Bush 41 and Trump), 3 Congressmen and a SC Governor. Her specialty was writing federal civil service rules, regulations, laws and policies. We moved to Oklahoma in 2020. We have 4 adult children and 3 grandchildren.

Hosting helped our kids—now it helps us welcome the world with joy.