Jamie Patzer would have celebrated her 20-year anniversary at Spirit Airlines as a flight attendant on Friday. Now, she is a part of the 999 Las Vegas-area workers laid off by the company. “I was supposed to work that evening,” said Patzer, 47, about the day Spirit ceased operations. “I was here with another flight attendant who was staying with me and we were both waiting to see what happened.” Nadia Smith-Berry, 74, had the longest seniority as a flight attendant at the Harry Reid International Airport base with Spirit Airlines. Smith-Berry had been off since January recovering from a surgery, but she was preparing to go back to work in May; now, she’ll never fly with Spirit again. “I enjoyed going to work. It gave me purpose,” said Smith-Berry. “Who’s gonna hire me at 74 years old? On Wednesday, Smith-Berry visited Patzer’s house, which served as an unofficial crashpad for other flight attendants, to gather her things before returning home to Riverside, California.…