Sandra "Sandy" Knight

Aug 5, 1950 -

Jan 1, 2024

Sandra "Sandy" Knight went home to be with our Lord Jesus Christ on Jan. 1, 2024. In 2019, she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and lived, until 2021, with her daughter and son-in-law in Colorado. In May 2021, her family made the decision, due to a major decline in cognition, to move her to Alaska and into Opus Memoria where she lived out her final years until Dec. 25, 2023, when she was admitted to Providence Hospital in Anchorage, Alaska, after having multiple seizures and never recovered.

Although Sandy didn't know where she was, she was living her best life in Opus. The care and love she received in that home exceeded anything she had experienced in her well life. Sandy was adored and expertly cared for by the staff at Opus and when she entered the hospital. When it became obvious that she would not recover, those Opus angels came to the hospital to see her and say goodbye. After seven long days in Providence - where the care was far above our expectations - she let go and went home to be with the Lord.

She proudly shared about her time working for the FBI. She loved to make people in her home believe that she was an agent. Always the jokester. In her later years, she enjoyed a 16-year career working for Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., as a staff assistant in the pathology department. The pranks she and the doctors played on one another were some of her best stories she told after retirement. Joking was her love language. If she couldn't make you laugh, she was sad.

Sandy is survived by her daughter, Leigh Ann Woznica; son-in-law, Tyler Woznica; and granddaughter, Bekka Page. She is preceded in death by her mother and father, Earl and Margie Snipes; brother, Eddie Snipes; and husband, John Knight.

She will be cremated and returned to North Carolina to be buried in her family plot.