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Death: Feb. 23, 1976 Seattle, King County, Washington, USA February 27, 1976. Funeral services were slated today for a young East High School history teacher who lost her battle against the cancerous disease, aplastic anemia. Susan Matthews Sandberg, 28, died Monday in Seattle, Wash., after undergoing a rare bone marrow transplant and many blood transfusions. Mrs. Sandberg was an East High graduate and received a degree from the University of Utah. She taught at East until May, 1974. She is survived by her widower Gary Sandberg and a daughter, Molly. Published in the Ogden Standard Examiner and in the Provo Daily Herald. (Rites Slated For Teacher SALT LAKE CITY (UPI)) Burial: Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
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Hope Kanell (Vernon)
Susan and I were very good friends. We spent graduation night together at her home where a group of us and our dates had a gourmet, sit-down dinner and a lovely celebration. Later in college at the U, both Susan and I were assigned to Highland High School at the same time for our student teaching. I'm thinking we sometimes car-pooled together. I know I was totally shocked to learn of her passing in the seventies because she was so very young. I will always remember her kindness and beauty. She was a memorable and remarkable woman.
Jill Wonnacott (Dunford)
Susan was such a vivacious girl. I always loved being with her to hear what she was thinking and doing. Her father was my teacher at the U for several history classes, and I knew where she got some of her zest for life. I was so sorry when I heard of her passing.
Karen Ericksen (Fuhriman)
Susan was in Washington having a bone marrow transplant when she died from Aplastic Anemia. We were great friends. She was in my ward and I remember spending a lot of time in her home with her wonderful family. We also spent a lot of time together when we sang in a quartet with Vickie Christiansen Morgan and Jane Adamson Wilson. Great memories.
Karren Kelly (Hammer)
Susan was so amazing as she fought aplastic anemia as a young wife and mother. She lived in my ward at the time and was beloved. She was absolutely beautiful, charming, articulate and lovely. I remember her starring role in our East High musical, Showboat, and admired her gorgeous alto voice. Our ward members who had fasted and prayed for her recovery were terribly grief stricken upon her passing because she was such a favorite member of the ward. It seems like yesterday as I think upon it and it makes me so sad. She was a very wonderful person.
Vickie Christiansen (Morgan)
Susan was a big part of my life for several yesrs. I have wonderful memories of spending time in her home, singing together, writing and receiving letters when she was in Hawaii, talking about life - so many things. On our last visit I introduced her to my second baby. As she followed me out of her home we visited in the front yard for a a few minutes. She mentioned that she was brusing with the slighest bump and would be going to the doctor soon. I wrote to her a few times when she had her bone marrow transplant. I was heartbroken when she died. I have often wondered what she knows now that I don't. She was so full of life and wanted so badly to be the mother of a large family. She would have been a great mom.