Sandra Hendrick Staley was born in Ft Knox, Kentucky, to Robert Ellis Hendrick and Helen Bartholomew. She lives in Midand, Texas and has four children Catherine Elizabeth Staley Hyde; Paul G. Staley; Mark Ellis Staley and Jennifer Elaine Staley Kostohoryz.

Sandra has a BS from McMurry University in History and Speech with a minor in Religion. She was a history and debate teacher at Midland Public Schools for three years. 

Memberships

• Baronial Order of the Magna Charta

• Colonial Dames of America

• Daughters of the Republic of Texas

• DelMarVa First Families, Founder

• Descendants of Brian Boru

• Descendants of Early Postmasters

• Descendants of Sheriffs and Constables of Colonial and Antebellum America

• First Families of Kentucky

• Founders Fellowship

• Hereditary Society of Teachers, National President; National Recording Secretary

• Jamestowne Society

• National Gavel Society

• National Guild of St. Margaret of Scotland

• National Huguenot Society, President General; Vice President General

• National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, Chapter President; Chapter Vice President

• National Society Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century, Chapter President

• National Society Dames of the Court of Honor

• National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars

• National Society Daughters of the American Colonists, Chapter Secretary; State Junior Page

• National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Former Chapter Regent; Nominated for Texas Outstanding Junior

• National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

• National Society Magna Charta Dames and Barons, State First Executive Vice President

• National Society of Fossors 1609-1850

• National Society of New England Women

• National Society of Saints and Sinners

• National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters

• National Society Southern Dames of America

• National Society United States Daughters of 1812, Chapter President

• Nicholas Martiau Association

• Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters

• Order of Descendants of the Justiciars

• Order of the Founders of North America 1492-1692

• Order of Medieval Women

• Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in America

• Order of the Descendants of El Cid

• Order of the First Families of Maryland

• Order of the Kings and Queens of the Holy Land

• Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

• Order of the Monarchs of Rheims

• Order of the Norman Conquest

• Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia

• Order of the Steel Magnolias

• Sons and Daughters of Virginia Founding Fathers

• Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565-1861

• The Commonwealth Assembly

• The Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars

• The Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

• The Hereditary Order of the Families of the Presidents and First Ladies of America

• The National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims

• The Order of American Cousins of the Present and Future Kings of Great Britian

• The Order of First Families of Connecticut

• The Royal Order of Saint George

• The Winthrop Society

• United Daughters of the Confederacy, Chapter President

Other

• Appointed Midland Community Ambassador to Greece, 1967

• Midland Junior League, sustainer

• Midland Junior Woman’s Association, past president

• Ballet Midland, past Board member

• Midland Symphony Guild, past president

• Midland Country Club Ladies Association, past president

• Petroleum Club of Midland Ladies Association, past president

• Minute Club of Midland, debutante presentation; past president

• Community Children’s Clinic, past president and board member

• Midland PTA, past president for San Jacinto Junior High

• Midland Genealogical Society, past president

• Midland Cerebral Palsy Center, past volunteer

• Bush House Childhood Home, docent

• Named Outstanding Woman by the Permian Basin Girl Scouts for 2010

• Midland Centennial Library Foundation Board

Sandra is a member of the First Presbyterian Church and is a poetry writer.