Myrna Louise Sanford

Myrna Louise (Mims) Sanford of Shreveport was born on December 5, 1928 in Wichita Falls, Texas. Her family moved to Shreveport while she was in high school, where she met Leo Sanford. Their story started in 1949, he a Fair Park football player and she a soda jerk. On their first real date he told her he was going to marry her, and she told him he was crazy. While she spent the next sixty eight years admitting he was right, she'd also tell you he was still crazy. Through those years Myrna and Leo had four kids, ten grandchildren, and nineteen great-grandchildren. They drove a camper across the country, cruised to Alaska, toured London, and followed their beloved Louisiana Tech Bulldog football team from Ruston to Honolulu. Myrna would tell you the most important details of those years, though, were in the backyard parties they held, graduations and weddings they attended, and pots of coffee they shared. Their love story was shared by everyone they knew, even strangers who watched them dance at any party with a band. She could communicate a whole conversation with just a look and make you feel loved with the way she took your face in her hands before she hugged you. Stories and facts don't do her justice; there was simply no one like Myrna. She was strong-willed, exceptionally beautiful, fiercely loyal, and effortlessly the best wife, mother, grandmother, and friend to us all.