Sandra Lee Lindekugel

Memorial services for Wasilla resident Sandra Lee Lindekugel, 72, will be 3 p.m., Nov. 23, at the Wasilla Assembly of God Church, 125 N. Riley Ave.

Sandy died Nov. 14 at her Wasilla home. She was born Jan. 11, 1938, in Portland, Ore., to Genevieve and Clarence Kuhnhausen. She married Mervin Jackson in July 1954. They divorced in 1969 and she and their their children moved to Forest Grove, Ore.

She lived in the Mat-Su Valley from 1982 to 1988, moved back to Oregon from 1988 to 1996 and came back to Wasilla in 1996, where she lived the rest of her life. She tended bar at the Bailey Street Pub, Green Acres, Gilmores and the Kashim Inn in the Mat-Su Valley, the Dragon Fountain in Hisslboro, Ore., and Kay’s Bar & Grill in Portland, Ore.

Sandy was warm, loving and had a wonderful sense of humor. Her family and friends were her life. She was extremely proud of and awed by her grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was truly a people person. She loved to cook and bake — the bigger the crowd, the better. She also liked to read, garden and can what she grew. She also liked dolphins and bowling.

Sandy is survived by her best friend and sweetheart, Larry Hamilton of Wasilla; daughters and their spouses, Debbi and Jim Hundley of Wasilla, Pamela Kennedy and Dawn Hanson, and Kathleen McElliott of Oregon; son and daughter-in-law, Michael Jackson and Cori Quistberg of Oregon; brother, Ivan Kuhnhausen of Oregon; 13 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Clarence Kuhnhausen and Genevieve Swoffard; sister, Sonja Kuhnhausen; and brothers Alvin (Sookey) and Vaughn (Bubs) Kuhnhausen.

Sandys ashes will be scattered at the Beach at Garibaldi, Ore.

Arrangements by Alaskan Heritage Memorial Chapel and Crematory of Wasilla.