Sandra Gregor
1952 – 2009

LEWISTON — Sandy Gregor of Temple, recently of Wilton, died Oct. 8, at Central Maine Medical Center in the midst of a rich and full life. She had metastatic breast cancer.

She was born in Rochester, Minn., on Feb. 4, 1952, to Rex and Arlene (Haugerud) Gregor. Her father was a salesman and charismatic storyteller, her mother a nurse with a talent for handicrafts.

She and her siblings, Tom, Debbie, John and Cheryl grew up in suburban Minnesota and California, but came to cherish the values of living close to the land and learning the crafts and traditions of their Norwegian farm-based heritage. She attended Mankato State College in Minnesota, where she studied journalism and met Mitch Goodman, a writer and activist, whom she later married.

In 1972, she moved to Brunswick and began writing for the Maine Times. She studied mime in South Paris with a troupe started by Tony Montanaro, then moved to Temple and married Mitch. Their son, Matty was born in 1980. In the mid-1990s, she became the Wilton-based Senior Center coordinator for the Western Maine Area Agency on Aging (SeniorsPlus). She worked briefly for W.A. Mitchell Fine Furniture.

Over the years, she also reported for the Franklin Journal and the Lewiston Sun Journal. At the time of her diagnosis late last fall, she had begun a new career as energy auditor with the Franklin County CAP Agency. She will be remembered as a woman of many passions and talents, including painting and knitwear design. She belonged to the Maine Woodturners Association and produced its newsletter 2003-07. She loved canoeing, bird watching and living near nature.

She will be deeply missed by family and friends, especially son, Matty of Somerville, Mass., and Donn Davis of Wilton, the love of her life.