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Marjorie ("Sandy") Sanford passed away in Albuquerque on May 10, 2008. Sandy was born Marjorie Sanford in Peoria, Illinois on February 18, 1915. She worked as a school teacher and joined the Army during World War II as a member of the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots), flying a B-26 Marauder bomber and towing targets for student fighter pilots. She met her husband-to-be, Braxton Thompson, at Harlingen Field in 1943 and they married on August 10 1944. After the war they moved to Houston, Texas, where Sandy worked with the Junior League as a docent at the Museum of Fine Arts, rising to the position of docent director, and at the Bayou Bend Museum, former residence of Texas governor, Jim Hogg. She and Braxton retired to Albuquerque in 2006. She is survived by their children, Sanford Thompson of Everett, Washington, Linsley Denning of Albuquerque, and Carter Thompson of Irving, Texas, and their grandchildren Arianne, Jay, Charles and Allison.
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