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Sandra Mayfield Coleman
Sandra Mayfield Coleman of
Waco died Wednesday, March 16, 2005 at her residence. Funeral Services will be
held at 2:00 PM Friday, March 18, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church with burial
following at Oakwood Cemetery. The Rev. Chuck Treadwell and the Rev. Frank
Mangum officiating.
Sandra was born April 4, 1934 in Waco to Lucy May Mayfield and John D. Mayfield,
Jr. She graduated from Waco High School in 1951. She graduated Cum Laude in 1955
from the University of Texas. She was President of Kappa Alpha Theta.
She returned to Waco and worked as a substitute school teacher in the Waco
Independent School District. She married F. Herman Coleman, Jr. on October 5,
1956.
Sandra was involved in many civic organizations. She served as President of the
Junior League of Waco and served as General Chairman of the Waco Cotton Palace
Pageant.
She was a partner of Coleman Enterprises and the Secretary/Treasurer of the
Coleman Autoplex in Gatesville.
Her love for her church was very evident. She was a life long member of St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church. She served as President of the Episcopal Church Women,
Chairman of St. Paul’s Day School Board, member of the Vestry, Volunteer for
Meals on Wheels and member of the St. Paul’s & St. Margaret’s Guilds. She was
very active in youth work and Christian Education. Her main focus was teaching
Sunday school which she did for over 25 years, 18 of those years, she prepared
the church youth for Confirmation.
Her parents preceded her in death. Her husband of 47 years, F. Herman Coleman,
Jr., former Chairman of the Board of the Texas National Bank of Waco (now
Compass Bank) died May 28, 2004.
She is survived by her son, William R. (Bill) Coleman and wife Larie of Waco;
daughter Julie Ann Luedke of San Marcos; one brother, John D. Mayfield, III and
wife Beth of Waco; one sister, Ann Park Mayfield Burton and husband, Alan of
Houston; three grandchildren, Cody Goains and Christopher Luedke of San Marcos
and Emily Coleman of Waco; nephews, Murray Burton and Joel Burton both of
Houston and John Miller Mayfield of Austin; nieces, Laura Mayfield of Waco and
Terry Burton Kahn of Houston; several cousins, great nephews and great nieces.
She is also survived by employee and good friend of 42 years, Evelyn W. Bryant
of Waco. The family is indebted to her caregivers Evelyn Dickerson and Angel
Stoglin.
Pallbearers will be nephews, Murray Burton, John Miller Mayfield and Joel
Burton; cousins, Larry McLean, Scott McLean and Jim Raisanen. Honorary
pallbearers will be the staff of the Coleman Autoplex.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested memorials be given to St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church or Day School, Waco Montessori School, Hillcrest Baptist
Medical Center’s Community Cancer Association or Hillcrest Hospice.
The family will be at 3201 Wooded Acres Drive.
Sandra and I were best friends from the second grade until her death. We used to spend the night at each other's house all of the time, go to the movies, play bridge (or what we called bridge), go swimming, climb trees (She was the only one besides me who really liked to climb.), make paper dolls and clothes for them (We thought we would be dress designers.), and boy oh boy, did we have fun. She loved a good joke and always kept me laughing. We both pledged Theta - she at Texas and me at Randolph-Macon. We were both active in the Junior League - she in Waco and me in Beaumont. She was General Chairman of the Cotton Palace in Waco and I was Social Chairman of the Neches River Festival in Beaumont. We each had a boy and a girl (in that order). We had the greatest husbands in the world. Although we never lived in the same town again, I would visit Sandra when I was in Waco. We could always pick up in the middle of a sentence from the time before. We solved the problems of our families and the world. She was a great part of my life and I will miss her every day.
This was cut out of our 1948 graduating class from West Junior. We both had flowers in our hair, although my hair was really too short to hold a flower very well.
This was part of a group picture in the 1951 Waco High Annual. Looks as though we are dressed just alike. (I think that I tended to copy Sandra much more than she copied me!)
This is her Senior picture.
She was one of my bridesmaids at our wedding on May 29, 1954.
This was taken at our High School 50 year reunion in 2001. We stayed with Sandra and Herman and had such a great visit.
Does this look like someone retired? (Note papers and phone at hand.) Don't think that Herman ever did really retire!
This was taken the last of April 2004, the last time that I saw her. She looked pretty as always, but she was having lots of fluid problems. Fortunately, those seemed to clear up for a good while. Her birthday was April 4 and mine is May 3. I teased her that she was 70 and that I was still in my 60's. (We went to the movie when she had turned 13 and I was still 12. Although she was shorter than I and looked much younger, she marched up to the window and said "One Adult, please." I was so hacked to have to say "One Child". Later on, she would say that she was really much younger than I because her children and grandchildren were younger than mine!) Bet she has Saint Peter laughing right now.