Sandra J. Halicky (Hart) December 8, 1937 - October 31, 2015 Preceded in death by her Father, Arthur Hart, Mother, Bethel Hart, Brother Allen Hart, Brother Donald Hart and Sister Nancy Marnell. Survived by children: Vicki Reynolds (Rick) Mark Halicky (Susan) Todd Halicky (Mendy) Jeff Halicky (Stephanie) Dj Halicky (Carl) lifelong friend and Sister-in-law Roberta (Donald) Hart Sister-in-law Joyce (Allen) Hart and Aunt Betty Reavis 10 Grandchildren 6 Great Grandchildren A multitude of nieces and nephews and second ma to hundreds Graduate of Bowen HS, 1956. Retired from Speedway Super America in 2000. Sandi grew up in Jeffery Manor, a neighborhood in Chicago. She graduated Bowen HS, Chicago in 1956. After marriage she moved to a home in Dolton, IL on Kasten Drive. This new neighborhood was the heart of many years of births, deaths, friendships and relationships that continue today. Those friends are still beloved by this family. These neighbors taught her love, laughter, and how to drink martinis. With 5 children in the school system Sandi became involved in the PTA where she met many friends that are still in the lives of her children. She was involved in making sets and writing skits. Her childrens teachers became her friends and her children spent many vacations from school just to spend their summers with their teachers eating, drinking and sleeping in the next room. She enjoyed her childrens horror at seeing their teachers in bathing suits and at martini hour. Sandi was a published artist, painter, writer, and comedian. She did standup comedy in the 1970s performing with Tom Dreesen, Tim Reid and Phyllis Diller at comedy houses throughout the suburbs. None of her children family or friends were omitted from her routine. At a surprise birthday party when Sandi turned seventy, her children took her most precious joke box and turned the tables on her performing a roast with her own jokes and she even heckled from her seat. In the 1980s she held several jobs to support her family. Mostly at the same time. These jobs include driving a school bus, teaching driving, auditing and owning small restaurants before finding her way to Speedway as an auditor. She wrote the auditing program that the company still has in place today. Retiring in 2000. After retirement Sandi picked back up with her painting, and other artistry. She began paper sculpture and pen & ink. Many of her paintings and paper sculptures reside from one end of the country to the other. She wrote and published an autobiography that spans her lifes up and downs and documents her life events after suffering a major heart attack in 2000. Sandi was a powerful and strong influence on each of her children that you work hard, you laugh harder and you love hardest. Each grandchild, niece and nephew knew how she cheated at games just to get them to laugh. All of her childrens friends wanted her to play games, and be with them at parties because she was the life of every party. Even finding out that one of her nurses was in training she pranked her. That was how she lived. Having as much fun as possible. Service Information Visitation Tuesday November 3, 2015 1:00 PM to 8:00 PM Lain-Sullivan Funeral Directors 50 Westwood Dr. Park Forest, IL 60466-1419 -->