Memories of Sandra Carpenter

In memory of

Sandra Carpenter

Stockholm, Sweden

August 16, 1964 - September 15, 2019

Aug 16, 1964 - Sep 15, 2019

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Karen Bergman

I’m thinking about how we met on Kangaroo Island in Australia many years ago! Two Americans with a Stockholm connection. I’m honored to have known you, Sandra. Your joie de vivre and your love of travel continue to inspire me.

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Lola Akinmade Åkerström

I miss you Sandra. It still feels so surreal we never get to hear your laugh again.

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Mary Beth Connor

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Mary Beth Connor

2007, Stockholm, Sweden

Another fun and delicious dinner party hosted by Sandra in her Sodermalm apartment with the view of the Baltic Sea.

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Ted Ackerman

2004, Pape Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, USA

A couple of pals hangin' out on Sandy's porch listening to sweet tunes

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Lola Akinmade Åkerström

Forever in our hearts ♥️

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mary Heil

2006, Australia

road trip

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mary Heil

2006, one of the islands near Stockholm

Quintessential sandy

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mary Heil

2006, Australia

One of the many scenic stops they showed me

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mary Heil

2006, Australia

enjoying beers on our Australian family road trip

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mary Heil

2006, Stockholm, Sweden

Sandy showing me the sites of Stockholm via bike, one of her favorite ways to get around.

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Loraine DeBonis

2016, Copenhagen, Denmark

Sandy always said, "Let me know when you're in Europe," and sure enough she met me in Denmark when I had a work trip there. I'm forever grateful for that amazing day and night exploring and catching up. At dinner, the table next to us ordered a whole pig's head. Of course, Sandy struck up a conversation, and they offered us a bite. With my eyes closed, it was delicious. Sandy, I will never forget your infectious sense of adventure and encouragement to take a bite out of life. I miss you even though we rarely saw each other in person. You changed my life for the better in so many ways. 💞

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David Pyle

Las Vegas - Trade show

So many fine memories of Sandy…her support for me as a writer and contributor at F+W. Her terrific smarts. A memory that stands out as an example of her delightful quick wit… Sandy, Mike Ward, and I were strolling through Caesers Palace, headed for dinner. We were attending a trade show in the 1990’s and had some time to wander the strip together. As we headed through the casino crowd, a cocktail waitress appeared, walking away from us at a high rate of speed, a shiny gold ‘emperor-like’ medallion glittering on her lower back. Without missing a beat, Sandy leaned over and said to me, “don’t look now, but that lady has a cartouche on her toosh!” I always thing of Sandy when I’m in Vegas…and laugh.

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Carla Schön

Kezia Carpenter

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Kezia Carpenter

Love this memory, David! I'll always remember us fly-fishing with you in Colorado. Love this memory, David! I'll always remember us fly-fishing with you in Colorado. Love this memory, David! I'll always remember us fly-fishing... Read more

Lisa Hazen

Sandy was like my cool big sister when I lived in Cincinnati. I was fresh out of college —F&W Publications was my first real job. It goes without saying that she was a wonderful mentor to me, helping me figure out how to put that new journalism degree to work. But the memories that really stay with me are discovering new restaurants, exploring cool areas of the city, hosting parties, after-work happy hours, and heartfelt chats in her office about friends, boys, and work.

Before moving to San Francisco, I stayed with Sandy after my lease expired. The night before I moved, she and some other friends closed down the local bar together (Haps!) and off I went the next morning with my one-way ticket to California and her full support of this crazy life decision I was incredibly freaked out about having made. She promised me it was a good move and she (as usual) was absolutely right.

I'll miss you, dear Sandy. Thank you for the gift of your friendship.

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MJ Segerlund

Sandra,
Your fun and lively spirit will be missed.
-MJ

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Kathy Norell

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Kathy Norell

2012, Stockholm

American Women's Club in Stockholm Halloween Party 2012

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Kathy Norell

Sandra, you will be greatly missed and remembered! Sandra, you will be greatly missed and remembered! Sandra, you will be greatly missed and remembered!

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Anne Hevener

When I think back to any party, celebration, concert or adventure I enjoyed in the 1990s, Sandy is there at the center—hosting, toasting, dancing, driving. With the music turned up. In 1991, when I started my first job at F+W, Sandy and I didn’t work on the same team, but she still introduced herself to me on Day One and asked how she could be of help. She quickly became a mentor, a colleague, a travel companion, and a very dear friend. Sandy made me feel I could do anything I put my mind to, and she was willing to give me a gentle kick in the pants if that’s what I needed to get on with it. In other words, a true friend. When my daughters came along, Sandy’s love and support enveloped them as well. And when her move to Sweden put an ocean between us, she always made sure to connect with me whenever she made it back to town.
Throughout much of this friendship, Sandy and I were co-workers, and I could point to a number of things that I learned from her that helped me professionally, but these are the lessons Sandy taught me that I find most important: Be generous. Open your home. Introduce yourself to the new person. Widen your circle. Accept the challenge. Go on an adventure. When you come home, have lunch with old friends. And when you play music, turn it up.
Thanks for the friendship, Sandy. I will miss you.

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