Sandra Wood Taylor

Sandra Wood Taylor, 78 July 3rd, 1937 - April 28th, 2016 Sandra Wood Taylor, was born in Mason City, Iowa, to Claudine and Ernest Wood. Sandy attended Mason City High School and loved music, especially the flute. Her favorite high school activity was participating in her High School band. She attended the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where she majored in Music Education and studied with flutist, Betty Bang Mather. Married in 1957 to Robert E. Taylor, the couple moved to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where Sandy received a Master’s degree in Speech and Hearing, as Bob continued his studies. While living there, Sandy was the first teacher of the now renowned flutist and conductor, Ransom Wilson. Sandy and Bob then moved to Washington, D.C. for further study at the University of Maryland. There Sandy studied art with W.P.A. painter Ben Abramowitz. In 1967, the family moved to Muncie, IN where Bob was a professor and Sandy received a Master’s of Music in flute performance at Ball State University. She taught flute at Anderson University and was principal flutist of Anderson Symphony and Pendleton Symphony. In 1980, she started her own jewelry business, “Snow Shadow,” participating in over 200 juried retail and wholesale art shows around the country. Sandy and Bob worked and travelled together in this capacity, for twenty years. In 1991, Bloomington became their home. Sandy worked as an artist in many different media, from sculpture to painting, and started a new business, “Delights,” making silver jewelry. She participated in various community organizations, among them the 4th Street Festival of the Arts and the Ivy Tech Waldron Arts Center, and took on several roles at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington, where she was a member. Sandy also composed original music. Her most recent piece, entitled “Concurrence,” was premiered at Wichita State in 2015, and will be performed this August at the 2016 National Flute Association in San Diego. She was loved and adored for 58 years by her husband Bob, who survives her, along with their two daughters Shelley Taylor, and Jan Taylor Schultz, her son-in-law Wade Schultz, and her beloved grandchildren, Isabelle Russell and Benton Schultz. She is greatly missed by her family. A service of Memory will be on Saturday, May 21st, 2pm, at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Bloomington, 2120 N. Fee Lane, Bloomington, IN. Pre-service music will begin at 1:30pm. *Memorial contributions may be given to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Bloomington, for music, or to the Bloomington vocal ensemble, Voces Novae. Online condolence may be sent to Sandy’s family at www.allencares.com.

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Sandra Wood Taylor

July 3, 1937 - April 28, 2016