Sandra Jane Sedaris

Sandra Jane Sedaris passed away peacefully surrounded by friends and family at St. James Healthcare early Friday morning, January 25, 2025 after complication of heart failure and COPD. Sandy was born in Butte August 31, 1950 to Robert L. and Susan J. (Langdon) Sedaris. Growing up, Sandy attended Greeley Elementary School, East Junior High and Butte High School where she was active in swimming, softball and bowling. She played on many softball teams and was nominated into the Montana Softball Hall of Fame for her excellence in the sport. Sandy wore many hats throughout her life. She started her employment career at Weber’s Beauty Supply and after its closure she then worked at Wal Mart and eventually found herself working side by side with her best friend and brother Bobby at Albertsons. In 2015 Sandy lost Bobby and found herself without her favorite work partner so retired to “Live the Good Life”. She learned to work the machines at the Star Lane Bowling Alley and spent many hours out there with her friend Kay – getting those machines going so everyone could have a good time bowling. She was active in the Silver Bow Tavern Owners Association and made multiple friends where she enjoyed attending their meetings and helping them with their auction in the Fall, but her favorite was the Christmas party in January – which she really missed enjoying time with them this year. Sandy truly enjoyed the outdoors and was always game to go boating and four-wheeling with her life partner Arlie and spending time with her brother Bobby. She was also active in the dart community where she spent many a day playing darts with her good friends and went to numerous dart tournaments throughout the state but her most favorite in Las Vegas with her dart family. She enjoyed her daily journeys driving around Butte checking up on her friends to see what they were up to or making sure they were ok and taking Bobby to the store weekly to satisfy his “ice cream fix” as she called it. She spent most of her time at her home away from home, Jim’s Bar, where she would have a beer or two with her cousin Dick and friends Artie, Nilene, Ann Marie, Dan and numerous others and then head down to the SBAC to see her “little girl” Tiffany to make sure she and the kids were doing ok. She enjoyed camping at Canyon Ferry at “Kenny’s Place” and going to the lake to watch the kids play in the lake on the jet skis wishing she could join them but due to poor health knew it wasn’t “a good idea”. So, she would sit on the shore, have a beer and reminisce of all the good times she had on them while she could. There was never a day go by that she didn’t talk on the phone to her cousin Nickola where they would chat about various things but mostly the current events in the sports world. She loved her Atlanta Braves but mostly her Buffalo Bills and hoped to get to see them in the Super Bowl – her favorite sporting event of the year and most important to her for the multiple boards she would be on for the fun of the game. Her friend and neighbor, Larry Jensen was especially close to her heart for helping her around the house or anything else s needed – she would always say that she just didn’t know what she would do without him there for her – Thank you Larry, I know you will miss her the most and she truly appreciated and loved you for everything you’ve done for her. She is preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Sue, her brother Bobby, life partner Arlie Davis and cousin Jill Larson. Surviving relative and friends include cousins Nickola Babich West, Bernard West of Oklahoma City, Dick McLeod of Butte and dear friends Larry and Matthew Jensen, Louis Salminen and family, Robert Flynn, Artie Willman, Nilene Willman, Ann Marie Reopelle, Tiffany Sanders and family, John and Paula Zadworney, Debbie Rich, Jean Frank, Jennifer Jangula and children Grant and Hailey, Cathy Carpenter, Wayne Worley and Myles, Marnee and Matt McDonagh and children Peytyn, Zach, and Michael, Crystal Rodriguez and children Joseph and Layla and her friends at Jim’s Bar and numerous others. Sandy will be truly missed by everyone that knew her for her kindness and generosity but she will mostly be missed for being the person she was to everyone in her life – a Good Friend! Cremation has taken place. No services are planned at this time and her ashes will be interred in Mountain View Cemetery. Memorials in her memory may be made to the Butte-Silver Bow Animal Shelter.

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Sandra Jane Sedaris

August 31, 1950 - January 24, 2025