Sandra Mumblow 1934-2025

Sandra Maciejewski Mumblow, age 91, died peacefully at Cooley Dickinson Hospital on Christmas Day, while under Hospice care.

Born to Anthony Maciejewski and Rose (Sutula-Kowalczyk) Maciejewski, Sandra began life living on the “Island” or Oxbow in Northampton, MA, and was known locally as Alice. She often recalled the sound of logs dropping onto wood piles at the local paper mill, where her father worked, and the whistle of trains passing through Mount Tom Junction---memories that stayed vivid throughout her life. Her “island” big sister, Bertha, made sure Alice was well acquainted with the people and ways of the “Island”.

Sandra spent most of her years in Easthampton, MA living on Federal Street in the well-remembered New City Polish community. The people, grocery stores, bakeries and tobacco fields of New City encapsulated the spirit of the Polish community in her mother, herself and on to her children. She moved to the “farm” on West Street in 1985. Since the summer of 2022, she resided at Linda Manor Nursing Facility in Leeds.

Sandra is mother to three sons, Anthony (partner Link Cross), Stephen (partner Patricia Bril) and Philip (partner Suzanne Lucchesi, d.2022 and was predeceased by her daughter, Rose (partner William Kelley), in 2017. Gerald Mumblow, the father of her children, died in 2014. She is, also, survived by four grandchildren, Tracey (Mumblow) Stamey in South Carolina, Alexander Mumblow in Alabama and Casey Mumblow of Easthampton, MA and his sister Anjelina Tudryn of Springfield, MA, four great grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.

Sandra was the last surviving member of the combined families of Anthony and Rose Maciejewski, which included her brothers and sisters, Bruno, Genevieve, Sally, Helen, Bertha, Joseph and John.

Sandra worked for more than 60 combined years at local restaurants, including The Log Cabin, Goldmine, Delaney House, and Yankee Pedlar Inn. She had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances from her restaurant days. The recipes and traditions of the Log Cabin very much found their way into Sandra’s home.

Before the pandemic she was a regular attendee at many Polish picnic, celebrations and events. Always “at the ready” to take to the floor and dance to the music of Eddie Forman and others. On Sunday afternoons she would drive throughout the Valley in search of that Hoopai Shupai music, with an especially quick spin for the Ukrainian, her favorite dance tune.

Locally, Sandra was known as “the lady with decorations in her hair”, especially at work, play and during the Christmas season at the “cut your own” tree farm on West Street. Never one to plant trees, however, she delighted in greeting families with candy, as they searched for the perfect tree. Over thirty years of tree sales, now serving three generations of visitors, she kept a handwritten list of families arriving at the farm and who had been “naughty or nice”, as tree shoppers.

She will be fondly missed by those who loved and knew her.

Sandra’s funeral service will be held on Friday January 2 with a calling hour 9-10AM at the Boucher – O’Brien Funeral Home, 7 Pleasant St., Easthampton. Proceeding to her Funeral Mass at 11AM in Our Lady of the Valley Church followed by her burial in St Stanislaus Cemetery.

Remembrance donations to the Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice Center in Northampton or the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst are most appreciated.