Sandra "Sandy" Morris died after a long struggle with Parkinson's Disease on September 6, 2020 at age 82. She was born in 1937 in Joplin, Missouri, but grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she lived until college at Ohio University. She graduated with a Home Economics degree. Like many women of her era, she married and started a family early in life, without the opportunity to pursue the advanced education and training her intelligence, talents and strengths were worthy of.

She loved books. As her kids got older, she dreamed of pursuing a master's degree in Library Science. Life challenges and numerous family moves interfered. She persevered and found work as a librarian at Casper College in Casper, Wyoming. Wherever she found herself, she made each new place a home. She was especially reluctant to move to Casper from Peoria, Illinois, where the family then lived. Still, she learned to love it. She was happy to help create the book, 'Casper: A Pictorial History', by Edna Gorrell Kukura and Susan Niethammer True, and received an acknowledgement credit.

Her greatest love was for the textile arts. Her home in Casper had a room devoted to a large weaving loom. She was skilled at all aspects of needle craft, a virtue underappreciated at times by her kids who wanted brand name hats, sweaters, and Halloween costumes, and not the clever, well-made ones their mom made. Later in life, she made costumes for a more appreciative audience: high school theater students in Denver. She was an expert quilter, and learned not only the craft, but the history and culture of quilting.

This tribute would be incomplete without mentioning the role of the Episcopal Church in her life. A high point was traveling to Italy to sing with a small Episcopal choir from Denver. The clergy and her circle of friends at St. John's were a comfort and support to the end, through the isolation and loneliness during this COVID-19 pandemic.

She is survived by beloved grandchild, Eliza, Eliza's mom Elin, sons Jim, David, and Mike, sister Sara, brother-in-law Gary, and nephews Greg and Todd and their families.