Sandra Wratchford

Sandra Lee Wratchford passed away September 15, 2025 in Papillion, Nebraska at the age of 82 years. She was born November 14, 1942 in Burlington, Iowa.

Sandra is preceded in death by her husband, Herman Wratchford; parents Bernard and Hilda Johnson; daughters Hilda Bentley and Cindy Wratchford; brothers Howard Johnson and Dareld Johnson; sisters Jane Nettle and Marcia Carnley; and granddaughter, Megan Lathrop.

She is survived by her children, Dale (Mindy) Wratchford, Richard Wratchford, and Stephen Wratchford; grandchildren Ashley (Robert), Sydney (Aaron), Madison, Bob, Sophie, Eian, Molly, Tristan, Zane, Jessica, Phoebe, and Rebekah; great-grandchildren Olivia, Isabella, Amelia, Milo, and Austyn; brother Gary (Linda) Johnson; many other family, nieces, nephews, and a fur-child, Scarlett.

Sandra was a woman that loved her very modest life. Raised as an Army brat she lived all over the country including Devils Lake ND, Lanesboro MN, and Lampasas TX. She met her husband Herman in Lampasas while drag racing on Key Avenue and Herman station at Fort Hood. She got married in Biloxi, MS and traveled the country as well as Europe, especially Germany and Austria with her husband and young children.

Sandra was a dedicated wife and mother serving as a Cub Scout den mother and PTA member. As her children grew she began working in the food industry and was most proud of her work as the head cook at the original Perry's Butchershop and Steakhouse in Houston, TX.

She was a loving grandmother often helping care for her grandchildren after school when the need arose. She also loved all of her fur children including Frisky, Fluffy, Sarah, Ethel, Lucy, and Scarlett throughout many years of raising them as well.

Sandra was a deep woman of faith and encountered God and angels on many occasions. She was deeply funny, fun loving and quirky. She loved to sing made up songs about her kids, grand-kids, and her dogs. She sang hymns without knowing a single word, and loved anything involving the Grinch.

Sandra was a survivor. She suffered multiple loses, heartbreaks, traumas, and difficulties with relationships, health, and finances, but Sandra never gave up and was fiercely independent to the end. Always living life on her terms.

She never forgot a birthday always sending kids, grandkids and great-grandkids silly birthday cards covered in stickers. She never failed to figure out a way to get something done for herself no matter how unorthodox it was. Fish hooks and bungy cord were used to hang Christmas lights and screwdrivers were stakes to hold down her "yard spookies" in the front yard.

Widowed for 27 years, she never asked for anything. She figured it out. She was tough as nails and loved her family. Her fierce independence and stoic nature often made her seem disinterested in others but she was a deep lover of those closest to her and felt their presence and absence deeply, even if she couldn't always express it.

Our mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother is one of a kind. Quirky, crazy, fun, stubborn, difficult, a loner, and a lover. Most of all... we loved her, she loved us, and we will miss her crazy a lot.