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Biography: Sandy Taylor
- Sandra Margaret Ross was born on May 13, 1951, in Bay
St. Louis, Mississippi. She is the only daughter of Peck
and Carolyn Ross of Bay St. Louis. Her father is a
retired independent grocerer and her mother is a retired
bookkeeper.
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- Ross developed an early love for dance and ballet
while in her early teens, as a result of a visting dance
company which performed for two weeks in Bay St.Louis and
gave free classes to local students. Ross attended Tulane
University in New Orleans, Louisiana, and majored in
dance. She appeared in thirteen different dance
productions while at Tulane, and graduated in 1972 with a
double degree in dance and stage choreography.
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- Through a mutual choreographer friend, Sandy met and
fell in love with Jim Taylor in 1974, who won a gold
medal at the U.S. Championships but was later cut short
in his career by a series of injuries. They were married
on June 5, 1974, in Birgminham, Alabama.
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- Sandy and Jim were happy and had three children
between 1974 and 1980: Shane, Dale, and Crystal. They
moved to Oxford, Mississippi, in 1974, where Sandra took
employment with the University of Mississippi.
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- Sandy enjoys dance, choreography, sewing, and fashion
design in her spare time. She is considered the anchor of
the Taylor family, and leaves much of the public handling
of her famous children to her husband. Sandy is content
to stay in the background and give advice to her children
one on one, and by all accounts, is a doting mother who
would rather have, in her own words, "happy children who
happen to be famous rather than famous children who are
unhappy."
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