Sandy Grindle – San Diego Union-Tribune

Sandy Grindle

OBITUARY

Our beloved sister, Sandra Lynne Grindle, 84, passed away from Alzheimer’s Disease on February 14, 2026 in Roseburg, Oregon. Sandy was the daughter of A.W. “Woody” and Dorathea “Dotty” Grindle of Chula Vista. After graduating from San Diego State University, Sandy taught for over fifty years in the Chula Vista junior and senior high schools. She was a talented, dedicated, and enthusiastic teacher, spending many hours perfecting innovative math and physics demonstrations. Her IB Physics students were treated to many memorable experiences including complex, fascinating experiments, and hundreds of homemade brownies she baked and individually gift wrapped. Sandy pursued her master’s degree in physics instruction from Cal State Fullerton to enhance her teaching skills. Teaching was her proudest accomplishment; her “happy place.” Throughout her life Sandy sought new experiences and skills, mastering the accordion as a child, lifeguarding and sailing as a teen, building a geodesic dome home as a geometry teacher, and teaching internationally in South Korea as an IB physics instructor. Always an animal lover, Sandy owned birds, cats, and dogs, including five rescued Greyhounds. In her late seventies, you could find Sandy on her tractor mowing the lower forty. Sandy is survived by her sister Margaret (Brian), brother Daniel (Michaela), nephew John (Christine), niece Ritamarie (Eli), and three great-nephews, Colin, Hank, and Joe.