Deceased Information

• DECEASED

  Sandra Lieff Faye

  Simcha bas Mendel v Malka

• DATE OF DEATH

  Saturday, August 19, 2023 (Before Sunset)

• DATE OF FUNERAL

  Monday, August 21, 2023

• TIME OF FUNERAL

  9:30 AM

• PLACE OF FUNERAL

  Graveside

• PLACE OF BURIAL

  Arlington Memorial Park, 201 Mount Vernon Hwy, Sandy Springs, GA 30328

• SHIVA INFORMATION

  Following the service a luncheon will be held at Temple Kol Emeth. The family will hold Shiva at the home of Cynthia Bowman Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.

  2859 Water Wheel Court, NE, Marietta, GA
  
  

• DONATIONS

  • ❖ Weinstein Hospice

    3150 Howell Mill Road NW, Atlanta, GA 30327

• OBITUARY

  Sandra Lieff Faye, age 82, Marietta, Georgia died August 19, 2023.

  Sandra Jacqueline Lieff was born in 1940 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the first of three daughters to Mildred and Milton and later, a dear big sister to Donna and Shelley. Known as Sandy to her friends, Mom to Cynthia, Aaron (AJ), Samuel (Sam), and Jeremy, and affectionately as “Gigi” to those who loved her most, she was also known as “Mrs. Faye” to the students and families she served throughout her career as a special educator.

  Sandy moved to Marietta, Georgia in the 1980s where she lived close to her children Cynthia and AJ. She worked for 20 years in the Dekalb County School District and spent many weekends with the five of her eight beloved grandchildren who lived nearby. Sandy loved to travel and made frequent trips to two of her favorite destinations, Las Vegas and California, to visit her other two sons and three grandchildren.

  Sandy was a lifelong learner who, while teaching full-time, received her master’s degree, and in her retirement, enjoyed auditing community college classes, attending lectures, and taking educational trips for senior learners. Sandy loved the arts and had season tickets to many Atlanta attractions, from the Fox Theater to the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the High Museum of Art. She was a voracious reader who devoured several books a week, and every Sunday morning, she completed the New York Times crossword puzzle in pen. An active congregant of Temple Kol Emeth for many years, Sandy spent every Friday of her retirement before the COVID-19 pandemic volunteering in the synagogue’s front office and setting up the social hall for oneg Shabbat, and her friends knew to find her every Friday night in the same row of the sanctuary for Shabbat services.

  The isolation of the pandemic and a subsequent Alzheimer’s diagnosis took a toll on Sandy. She spent her final years surrounded by friends new and old at The Solana assisted living, where she relished in field trips, art classes, and crossword puzzles through the very end. Sandy is survived by her sister Donna Gorsen (Melvin Gorsen); sister Shelly Lieff; daughter Cynthia Bowman and granddaughter Mollie Bowman (Oliver Macklin); son Aaron Faye, granddaughters Heather, Danielle, Victoria, and Katrina Faye, and great granddaughters McKenzie and Kailey Krane; son Samuel Faye (Marilyn Faye) and granddaughter Sara Faye; and son Jeremy Faye and granddaughters Celia and Chloe Faye. A graveside service will be held on August 21, 2023, at 9:30 a.m. at Arlington Memorial Park with Rabbi Steven Lebow officiating.

  In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Sandy’s memory to Weinstein Hospice, whose loving and attentive care was a blessing in her final days.