It was during a stint with the country singer Loretta Lynn’s traveling rodeo that Sandy struck up a lifelong friendship with an 18-year-old runaway named Charla Nash, who was rodeoing her way around the country. Sandy and Jerry opened several businesses in Stamford, including a tow operation and an auto-body shop, that would soon make them unlikely millionaires.įor a time in the seventies, Sandy, Sue, and Jerry towed their horses from state to state so that Sandy (and later Sue) could barrel-race semi-professionally in rodeos. Her life stabilized she, Jerry, and Sue, whom Jerry raised as his own, ultimately settled in the house on Rock Rimmon Road with Sandy’s parents. At 30, Sandy married her third husband, Jerry Herold, who was kind, intelligent, and devoted. Her second marriage was romantic, intense, and desperate-she adored her new husband, with whom she had a daughter named Suzan, in 1961, but they fought violently over his frequent affairs and divorced after four years. She married shortly after high school, then again in 1960. At birthdays, her parents outfitted her in silk dresses and cardigans and had her pose for photographs, smiling, near multitiered cakes, Gretchen standing at her side. As an only child, Sandy spent much of her time playing with her German shepherd Gretchen and tending to the horses on the property.
She was born in 1938 to a Jewish mother and Italian father who operated a popular bakery downtown and eventually built an unassuming shingled house on a windy road called Rock Rimmon, to the north of the city. She spoke with a strange accent, a New York–New England hybrid, and spent her entire life in Stamford, Connecticut. She applied bright-pink lipstick and copious amounts of bronzer. She wore it down below her shoulders, her bangs cut straight across. Throughout her life, Sandy Herold had long, straight hair so black it almost looked wet.
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