Bio: Curtis, Sandra Lea (New Year’s Baby - 1975)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Curtis, Degenhardt

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 1/09/1975

Curtis, Sandra Lea (New Year’s Baby – 2 January 1975)

All the signs are right for Memorial Hospital’s New Year Baby of 1975 to be spoiled rotten.

She’s Sandra Lea Curtis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Curtis of Rt. 2 Loyal.

First of all, she’s the youngest to a family of nine children. Next, her “youngest” sister is Lisa, who is 11 and a sixth grader in the Greenwood Schools. Then, she’s the aunt to another youngster, Sonya Degenhardt of Wichita Falls, Tex., who is three years’ her senior.

And if it still makes a difference, she’s a girl.

Sandra was born at 6:05 p.m. January 2. She weighed in at seven pounds, 15 ounces at birth and was 20 inches long.

Her daddy is a licensed cheesemaker at the Bletsoe Dairy at Christie; and of course, her and his wife June, already are grandparents.

Of the eight brothers and sisters of Sandra Lea, two are married. Douglas, 22, lives with his wife in Spencer; and Carla is the mother of Sonya and her husband is in the Air Force.

Others include: Carroll, Jr., 18, who works on Rt. 3, Marshfield; Chester, 17, who was to take an Army physical examination the day after his new sister was born; Sheryl, 16, a junior at Greenwood High School; Cathleen, 15, a sophomore at Greenwood High School; and Pamela, 13, an eighth grader in the Greenwood Schools.