Memorial services will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, April 10, 2021 at the First United Methodist Church in Clayton, New Mexico with Rev. Billy Rammage officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Hass Funeral Directors of Clayton, New Mexico.
Sandra “Faye” was born January 8, 1951 in Clayton, NM to Carl and Jeanne Newlon of Sedan, NM. Sandra attended Sedan School until 8th grade then Clayton High School where she graduated in May 1969. She graduated from Oklahoma State Tech in Okmulgee, Ok. In 1971 with a degree in Commercial Art and Graphics Design. In October of 1971, Sandra married Charles Carroll and made their home in Oklahoma City. They were married about 3 years. Sandra remained in Oklahoma City working for a newspaper as a copy editor. She remarried in 1977 to Roger Springmeyer. They moved to Campbell, Ca. where he was a consulting attorney for General Electric and she a graphics designer for Johnson and Johnson. They were married 8 years. She lived in Campbell until 2005 when her mother became very ill and she came home to take care of her. She took very good care of Mom and Dad. Mom passed away in 2006 and Dad in 2018. We thank her so much for her wonderful care for them. Sandra stayed on the ranch to help Kendall with feeding cattle, baby calves and other animals, and keeping books. Sandra was diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2020. She moved to Amarillo to receive treatment. She was in remission but succumbed to her death by an intestinal obstruction on April 1, 2021. Sandra was a very smart, talented, loving, kind person. She graduated as Valedictorian of her 8th grade class. She was an artist at a very young age. The first person in Clayton High School to take 3 years of Art. Her senior year she was named Most Talented Girl by her class. She mainly drew landscapes, portraits and charactertures. She was Salutatorian of her Commercial Art classes at O.S.T. We treasure her pictures she made for her family. This was her passion. She had other talents of writing, wrote poetry, party arrangements, and restoring old portraits, and pictures. She sewed her own clothes for several years. She loved music, dance, and performing in musicals and being in beauty pageants while attending college. She won Miss Oklahoma State Tech and voted Miss Congeniality twice by her competitors. She loved to travel. She visited Fiji, Belize, parts of Europe, Saudi Arabia, and the Great Pyramids of Egypt. She even tried riding camels, the local cuisine and doing the tourist things they do. She even learned to snorkel and scuba dive in the great oceans. She was a member of the Red Hat Society. She enjoyed visiting and entertaining with all the ladies. Sandra worked with Sedan Reunion Committee putting on the reunion every year. She enjoyed seeing and visiting with former friends and classmates like her mother did for many years. Sandra loved children. Her nieces and nephews adored her. She played and talked with them and always took an interest in each one. She loved her family and was happy with her upbringing.
SURVIVORS:
Sandra was survived by her brother, David Newlon and his wife Charlene of Texline, Texas, sister, Janice Rinker and her husband Gary of Clayton, New Mexico, Sister, Janet Coburn and her husband Roger of Albuquerque, New Mexico and brother, Kendall Newlon of Sedan, New Mexico.
Many nieces and nephews David, Nathan, Charla, Jason, Amanda, Dane and Lorie.
Great nieces, nephews, cousins and aunts.
She will always be remembered lovingly and missed by her family and friends.
MEMORIALS: The family asks that memorials be made in Sandra’s memory to either the Sedan Community Center or to the Harrington Cancer Center in Amarillo, Texas.
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