Marie Taylor Sands passed away on Jan. 14, 2024. Marie was born in Shawnee on Sept. 11, 1993 and graduated from the Oklahoma School for the Deaf. Marie entered this world with a hole in her diaphragm causing her abdominal organs to develop in her chest cavity. As an infant, she required extensive surgeries to ensure a better quality of life. She learned to be a fighter early on and never let her medical conditions dim her shine. She worked at Red Lobster making their delicious cheddar biscuits.
Marie was preceded in death by her grandparents, Douglas and Wanda Sands.
Those left to cherish her memory are her father, Gary Sands, mother, Amy Colley, sisters, Lindsay Heckman and Megan Insel and husband Josh, grandma and grandpa, Carol and Bobby Danner, bonus mom, Stephanie Bryan and husband Darrell and their family, nieces and nephews, Logan Wayne Turner, Devin Michael Penrod, and Aria Insel, aunts and uncles, Debbie and David Berlin and Carl and Cindy Packwood, and great aunt, Virginia Moore.
Services were held Jan. 22, 2025, at the First Church of the Nazarene under the direction of Walker Funeral & Cremation Service.
