- She and Ted Cassidy were going to be married in May 1979.
- Is a full-blooded Mescalero Apache.
- 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.
- Fiancee of Ted Cassidy at the time of his death.
- 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.
- 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.
- The youngest of six girls and three boys.
- Was brought up believing she was Spanish-French-Greek.
- [Chaplain Robert Ortiz] said: It's Sandra's genuine personality that makes her ministry so successful.
- Jane Douthitt is one of several people who nominated Sandra as one of the New Mexican's 10 Who Make a Difference for 2018.
- 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.
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