“…and a child that’s born on the Sabbath day is fair and wise and good and gay.”
Sandy was born two months early December 5th 1954 in Monroe, WI, the first of four children born to Marian (Boll) and Albert Reynolds. Weighing around 3 pounds she was fed through a feeding tube in her leg spending most of her first year in the hospital. Sandy grew into a kind, respectful, no nonsense girl, a trustworthy secret keeper, fiercely loyal, honest to the bone, with an uncanny ability to always put herself in the place of the person you were upset with, playing the devil’s advocate. Excuses were met with patience and understanding. She always looked for the best in people and loved unconditionally. Sandy would have made a phenomenal “Dear Abby”. She loved anything rhubarb, salted raw or cooked any way. With her sister and brother, her younger spring days were spent searching for the most thriving, delicious rhubarb patches they could find. Many summers were spent helping on her aunt and uncle’s farm by Juda. The dreamer in her was always reading comics and love stories and coloring in Disney coloring books. Watching and helping mom cook and bake, she became an exceptional cook and baker with many recipes populating pages in company cookbooks. She spent a little adventurous time in Texas with her sister, only to discover she was really a hometown girl.
Sandy married Randall Wubbena September 25th, 1976 at EUB Church in Monroe, and moved to their newly purchased home outside Freeport. They took several road trips over the years. She worked at Swiss Colony bakery and lastly, many years at Honeywell in Freeport. Sandy collected everything under the sun, from Barbie dolls to candles to movies to all seasons’ decorations and wall pictures of nature, country houses, wild animals, and romance novels, to name just a few. She loved all holidays, especially Christmas! She decorated to the hilt and found the most unique, gifts, shipping presents to those who wouldn’t be there. She loved to cook for a houseful of people, made tons of food and filled extra containers to send home with family. Sandy lost Randy to cancer in 2011 and her health slowly began to decline. She eventually retired and after a few hospital stays, her doctor said she couldn’t live alone as her needs required professional support. She was accepted at Nazareth Health and Rehab in Stoughton in 2016. Besides reading, she enjoyed computer games and movies, especially with John Wayne. She loved phone calls and visitors, her favorites being her 8-year old twin great-nieces, Jen and Liz. She said they always brightened her day and she’d be happy and smiling long after they left or just called. Sandy was surprisingly content at Nazareth and made many good friends on the staff. She even left the cook a copy of a cookbook with many of her recipes she hoped he’d try. The good care she received there gave us 6 ½ years we might not have had. She passed in her sleep early Friday morning, January 27th 2023.
Sandy is survived by her sister, Sue Patterson, Stoughton, brother, Jon Reynolds, Monroe, nephew, Joseph Patterson (Stephanie); their twins, Jen and Liz , Stoughton, nephews, Ethan Reynolds, Brodhead, Jacob Reynolds, Minneapolis, Thomas Reynolds, Madison, Stephen and Zachary Reynolds, Davison, Michigan, Aunt Diane Boll, Green Bay, great nephew Jordan Montgomery, Monroe, and many cousins and in-laws.
She was preceded in death by Randy, her mother, Marian, father, brothers, Edward Reynolds, and Thomas in infancy, brother-in-law, Jim Patterson, and niece Trisha Patterson.
Sandy was cremated and a private burial will be in Freeport next to her husband.
A celebration of her life will be planned in late spring or early summer.
