Sandra Kay Aumend Perry

Sandra and her husband Donald Perry met on January 10th of 1963 and married nine days later, January 19th 1963. It was a short courtship but they both said it was love at first sight. They did not wait long to start their family, They had four children in four short years. The first born child was a son and he took his fathers name, Donald Allen Perry Jr born on September 16th 1963. Dennis Scott Perry was born December 8th 1964. Kimberly Kay Perry was born December 22nd 1965 and Kendra Sue Perry was born July 11th 1967. Sandy grew lonely as her youngest daughter Kendra started school so they decided to have one more child, Dana Michael Perry who was born July 27th 1972. The Perry family was very close and they did everything together. Donald was his boys baseball coach for many years. They all learned how to bowl and swim as a family. One of the families favorite past time was going to Ohio Skate together almost every week. The girls cooked and cleaned the house along with their mother and the boys learned to work on cars and the yard with their father. People would often tell the Perry's how well behaved their children were in public and they must be great parents to have such great kids. The seven of them were always together. Rather it was going grocery shopping, or going to dinner, or just spending the whole day together. There was never any doubt that this family loved each other very much. The Perry family moved from Swanton to Perrysburg in 1981 after the oldest child Donald graduated high school. Shortly after the move the older four children all started getting married and having kids. Kimberly had the fist grandchild in March of 1985 and by March of 1986 they had four grandchildren. This happy family was getting bigger and happier by the minute. By the time the 90's rolled around the Perry family grew to have 12 grandchildren. All of the four oldest children now had kids of there own, they were all moved out and married, which only left the youngest Dana at home with his parents. Shortly before Dana graduated high school he passed away in a car accident in April of 1991. The death of the youngest child and sibling caused a lot of heart ache and drifts in the family that they all had to over come together. In 1996 another grandchild was born to Donald Jr and finally some joy was starting to come back to the family, which unfortunately did not last very long. In March of 1997 Donald Jr's wife, Bonnie, went into premature labor with their second child, the last grandchild, when she suddenly died during delivery. The family was suddenly broken again, Donald Jr now had a one year old son and a new born baby girl who was born three months early and they did not have a mother, Being the proud parents they were Donald and Sandy stepped up to help raise the little girl Katie who became their sixth 'child'. Things were starting to finally look up, but once again, a death rocked this family. Donald Sr passed away January 19th 2003, which also happened to be their 40th wedding anniversary. Sandy was devastated, she lost her husband, her best friend, the father of her children and the love of her life. Sandy was a strong person, she did not like to show the death of Donald was hard on her but the family knew it was. The family has got though so much before they could get though this. The birth of the first great grandchild in 2006 seemed to help repair the family that has been broken so many times before. In late 2008, the family found out the oldest son Donald Jr had cancer. He survived 14 months, which in that time we watched his grandchild be born and his daughter married, before he passed away. Sandy took care of him each and everyday until the day he passed. After losing two children and a husband this women was still the strongest person anyone has met. She now had to raise Donald Jr's two children who were 13 and 12. After so much loss in her life, Sandy tried to make sure these two children she was raising had the best life she could give them. Her health was not the best but she did everything she could for these children. Her family was her life. Her kids, grand-kids, and great grand-kids, which she now had 9, was the joy of her life. Sandy was a loving caring person who was enjoyed my many. People who knew her had nothing but kind words to say of her. The world lost one of the most amazing women on January 17th 2014, just two days shy of her wedding anniversary. The person who kept the family strong though every crisis they been though was now gone, the rock of the family has disappeared, with out her how was this family going to survive? She will be missed my many and thought of often as we go on and live our daily lives.