She and Ted Cassidy were going to be married in May 1979.
Adopted by the Griego family. They were a large happy clan and they had just lost their newborn daughter. So the hospital authorities put the grieving couple together with the just-orphaned infant, who took her home.
She was only three days old when her parents were killed in an automobile accident.
Started ministering with Shalom Ministries at what was then the New Mexico Boys' School in Springer. Then she began her work at the jail.
Arranged for Ted Cassidy an Irish Wake for when he died.
The youngest of six girls and three boys.
Using the name Sandra Ego was the idea of an ex-manager who thought it would be cute.
She and Ted Cassidy shared a house which is now hers - it was their joint property - and she enjoys the memories it contains.
Jane Douthitt is one of several people who nominated Sandra as one of the New Mexican's 10 Who Make a Difference for 2018.
[Chaplain Robert Ortiz] said: It's Sandra's genuine personality that makes her ministry so successful.
Has visited with women in the New Mexico's county facility just about every week for the past 14 years, bringing them "hope, encouragement, love and inspiration," said Jane Douthitt.
Now lives in New Mexico, Santa Fe County subdivision just south of the jail.
Was brought up believing she was Spanish-French-Greek.