Sandra Kay

Bender

Sandra Kay Bender, 68, a lifelong resident of Sweetwater, passed away Friday, January 19, 2024 in Lifecare Hospital in Plano, Texas.

Funeral services will be at 11:00 A.M. Thursday, January 25, 2024 at McCoy Chapel of Memories with the Rev. Shannon Harrison of Snyder, TX officiating. Interment will follow at the Sweetwater Cemetery directed by McCoy Funeral Home.

Sandra was born July 6, 1955 in Sweetwater, Texas to Milton and Jessie Lee (Webb) Goolsby. She married Milton Bender in 1970 in Sweetwater, TX. She was a homemaker and later worked in home health care. She also attended Sweetwater Schools.

She is survived by a daughter, Rahfeki Williams and husband Aurelius Marshburn of Sweetwater, TX, two sons, Christopher Taylor of Lubbock, TX, Akeeme Bender and wife Trisha of Amarillo, TX, her brother, Danny "D.J."Johnson and wife Chanell of Sweetwater, TX, Ivory Lee Taylor of Sweetwater, TX, 21 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.

Sandra was preceded in death by herhusband Milton Bender in 1978, her mother Jessie Lee Mason in 2016, her father Milton Goolsby in 2007, three sisters, and a granddaughter Chelsea Sweet in 2024.

Pallbearers are Cameron Taylor, Deanthony Taylor, Junior Hunt, Robert Collins, Darion Bender, Kaine Bender, Christopher Taylor, and Kintay Bender.