Sandy Loomis
December 10, 1951 - June 29, 2026
Sandra Lee Loomis passed away peacefully on June 29, 2026, surrounded by loved ones. She was born December 10th, 1951, to Leonard and Ruth Steck in North Platte, Nebraska. Seven years later she welcomed a younger sister, Susan. They grew up surrounded by animals, including Sandy’s horse, Black Angel. Sandy coached Susan’s softball team and played the flute for the high school marching band. When Sandy was 21, she ventured out on her own and moved to Alamosa to go to Adams State University while Susan and her parents moved to California. One of her tile mosaics was even installed on the campus there.
Sandy took a job at Coors, where she met Tim Marsh at a party. They married and had two children, Erin & Ben. The four of them lived in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, where she and Tim learned 2-step, hosted barbecues, made wine with their feet, and built snow forts for the kids during the Colorado Blizzards. They took an innumerable number of camping, hiking, and fishing trips in their 1967 Tradewinds Tent Trailer (still owned and remodeled by her daughter Erin). In 1986 they moved to Des Moines, Washington to be closer to Tim’s family. There Sandy enjoyed riding the ferry, snacking at the Public Market and going to pick wild blackberries.
After her divorce from Tim, she was a superb single mother. Her life with Erin and Ben was filled with songs, silliness, and thrift store adventures. Sandy read The Chronicles of Narnia to Erin and Ben and took lots of trips to California to visit family, once by train. She helped make ends meet by being a secret shopper for Coco’s Diner. Sandy married Chris Loomis and took his name in 1991. Chris passed away from cancer in 2009.
She worked as a successful design drafter, no small feat in a male-dominated field. At the time of her retirement, Sandy was working to build the equipment used to dismantle nuclear weapons. She even went back to school in her 40s to graduate from Red Rocks Community College.
One of her most cherished chapters was the adventurous, vibrant life she lived with Dave Scheifelbein. They moved from Denver to Taos, Cedaredge, Montrose, and even purchased a house in Belize. They took fishing trips to Canada and loved to find a great brewery. In Taos, she started playing the wooden flute, which became one of her favorite pastimes. When she lost Dave to cancer, she bravely moved to their house in Belize on her own for three months.
Sandy moved to Houston in 2024 for about a year to be closer to Erin & her husband Shane where she drank in the festivities and food of a big city. It was in Houston where she met her two beloved cats, Toby & Lucky with Erin at El Gato cat café. When the Texas weather got to be too much, Sandy moved back to Colorado. In 2026 she purchased a house in Parker, Colorado with her son Ben and his wife Camille. Together they curated a very comfortable home for all of them. Ben lovingly made them dinners while they listened to records.
Sandy was creative, clever, and very loved by family and friends alike. She was always willing to do the silly thing, be it a dance or a goofy face. She was no stranger to a paintbrush, pencil, sewing machine or hammer.
Her song choice for karaoke? Puff the Magic Dragon.
May she forever frolic in the autumn mist.
A private celebration will be held to honor her life.
Photographs of Sandy
