I grew up and attended school in Ogden and Brigham, City. In 1937 I graduated from Ogden High School. 1939 was the year I graduated from Weber College. After a summer in Albuquerque New Mexico. I went east to attend the Eastman School of Music for a year and the following summer. The next fall I was enrolled at Brigham Young University where I met Edward A. Sandgren. I graduated from BYU with a major in music. Sometime after graduating, I continued my studies and obtained an elementary teaching certificate.

Edward and I were married in 1941. We have five children. They are in order of age: Rene, Arthur, Lucille, Charles, and David.

I had a keen interest in music studying piano and voice and doing some teaching before teaching school.

I have enjoyed working in the church. In 1935 was appointed secretary of the Sixth Ward YWMIA and released in July of 1937. I took a teacher training class and a geneaological class for young people. I was a Sunday School teacher from July, 1937 to June 25, 1939. October 1938 I was set apart as pianist in the Ogden Sixth Ward Primary by Irvine F. Keller. 1937 to 1939 I was a member of the ward choir. I was also chorister in Junior Sunday School.

In the Albuquerque Branch of the Western States Mission, I was a Sunday School teacher and organist during the summer of 1939.

In Cedar City, I sang in the ward choir.

While we were in Provo 1945 to 1949, I was a primary teacher in the Fourth hard.

After our return to Ogden, I was asked to work in the Sixth Ward Primary as a teacher, then as a chorister. On March 4, 1955, I was set apart as Stake Chorister for the YWMIA of the Ogden Stake by Ernest R. McKay.

When we moved to our new home in the Forty Seventh Ward of the Lorin Farr Stake. I was asked to be mutual Chorister. Next, I was set apart as Activity Counselor by Jack Carter, later Bishop Curtis Marshall set me apart as Relief Society organist on September 28, 1958. I was then put in as ward organist from October 1958 to August 1960.

After a short period of no activity because of school teaching responsibilities, I was asked to be Junior Sunday School Chorister. I held this position until August 1964 at which time we moved to Orem.

As for civic activity, I enjoyed singing in two civic choirs organized and directed by my husband. They were the Euphonic Chorus of Provo and the Ogden Chorale.

In 1964 and 1965 I was MIA MAID Teacher in the Orem 18th Ward. Then we moved into the Orem Fourth Ward as the house we lived in was to be sold. In that ward I was a Beehive teacher and Junior Primary Accompanist during a summer. We then moved into our home in Provo in the Oak Hills fifth ward where I taught the eight year olds in the Junior Sunday School for a short time and then was asked to be assistant coordinator of the Junior Sunday School.