Sandy Spoonemore

Sandra Ann Spoonemore (Sandy, Sis, Aunt Sandy) is walking, talking, and praising God today. She passed from this world on January 18, 2025, at 9:00 pm. She was surrounded by family and friends, firmly in God’s grip of grace.

Sandy was born on February 26, 1965, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean at the Naval Hospital in Agana, Guam.

In her early childhood, Sandy experienced a brief period of walking before her life changed dramatically. She was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy, specifically Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a genetic condition that leads to progressive muscle weakness due to the loss of motor neurons in the spinal cord. Confined to a wheelchair for most of her life, Sandy’s unshakable faith in the Lord Jesus Christ allowed her to embrace life fully and without limitation.

Sandy and her mother refused to let her condition define or limit her. She attended school with her peers, never accepting special treatment. She cherished her time at MDA camp, where she canoed, fished, crafted, and enjoyed s'mores, learning to defy both gravity and the worlds expectations.

In 1983, Sandy graduated as part of the first class of Plano East Senior High. She continued her education at Baylor University, graduating in 1987. Sandy then launched a successful career in Corporate America, working as a computer programmer at Texas Instruments and EDS, and later as an HR Manager at Nations Bank in downtown Dallas.

In 1999, Sandy began building her own business with Mary Kay Cosmetics. She thrived in this role, earning numerous Queen of Sales and personal recruiting awards. Sandy’s values aligned beautifully with Mary Kay’s—faith, empowerment, and a love of all things pink. Her career with Mary Kay also allowed her to advocate for others with disabilities, a cause she was deeply passionate about.

Sandy served on the Dallas Mayor’s Committee and the DART board for the physically disabled. In 1999, she received the Dallas Mayor’s Committee Innovator Award. She also contributed as a consultant on President Bill Clinton’s task force to help employ adults with disabilities and received the Texas Governor’s Trophy in 2000 for her work with United Cerebral Palsy, connecting disabled individuals with Corporate America through the internet. Sandy was crowned Ms. Wheelchair Texas in 2016, traveling across the state to advocate for persons with disabilities.

Sandy traveled the world, accompanied by friends and caregivers who became family. To Sandy, no place was inaccessible, no path untrodden, and no goal unachievable thanks to the hands and feet God provided through her caregivers, whom she considered her angels.

In 1975, Sandy was baptized at Millington Baptist Church in Tennessee. During high school, she attended First Baptist Church in Plano, and while at Baylor University, she attended First Baptist Church in Waco. For the past 25+ years, her church home was Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano. These communities of faith supported, loved, and enriched Sandy’s life, helping her grow in her walk with the Lord.

I took this from Sandy’s personal notes in her Bible:

How to know what to do in life! Ephesians 2:8-10

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

Sandy was God’s handiwork! Sandy will be remembered for her great faith in Jesus, her determination, her stubbornness, her humor, her fashion sense. She was a great friend, aunt, sister and daughter.

She is survived by her mother, Julia Ann Spoonemore of Plano; her brother, Steve, and his wife, Debbie, of Plano; and her cherished nieces and nephews, whom she loved with all her heart: Shelby and her husband, Sam Orr, of Fort Worth; Haley and Cade Curry of Lubbock; Kelsey and her husband, Grayson, of Fort Worth; and AJ and his fiancée, Andee Meyers, of Lubbock. She was also blessed with two grandnephews, Thatcher Cash Curry (11 months) of Lubbock and Owen Thomas Orr (3 weeks) of Fort Worth, who both brought her immense joy.

She is further survived by her aunt and uncle, Martha and Fulton Huddleston of Kansas City; her cousins, Ken and Leitha Huddleston of Oklahoma City, and Gary Huddleston of Kansas City; her aunt, Mary Cox of Memphis, her cousin Danny Cox of Memphis; and her loyal dog, Boomer, who was always by her side.

Praise the Lord for the blessing of Sandy Spoonemore’s life!

There will be a memorial service to celebrate Sandy’s new life with Christ at 2:00, Thursday, January 23, 2025, at Prestonwood Baptist Church in the Faith Chapel.