Sandra Isabella Fisher

Sandra Isabella Fisher, 21, of Stafford Virginia, passed suddenly from this world of turmoil to her place of peace on June 11, 2026. Born to Kevin and Sujey Fisher on January 9, 2005, she will always be their heart and sweet baby girl Bella, Sandrita and Ginger Belle.

Sandra always excelled at the highest levels academically, graduating Suma Cum Laude from Stafford High’s Governor’s School program. She earned full scholarships to UVA and Washington and Lee universities, and attended W & L inspired to become a pediatric neurosurgeon. During her college years she volunteered as an EMT and worked with deep compassion serving autistic children.

Her peers attest that no one could ever have a truer or more fiercely loyal and loving friend. To her younger brother Konor, she is a role model of excellence and a devoted defender and affectionate advocate. People quickly learned that double crossing her or any of her loved ones came with quick and clear consequence. Now that she is in Heaven, we should take care to honor her and hers lest bolts of lightning rain in our direction.

Her unbridled boldness was legendary, whether in the face of authority or in the service of her loved ones, inspiring both admiration and concern amongst her family and friends. Sandra’s unique combination of bravery, toughness and delicate depth of feeling made her a beautiful puzzle. Always a fighter for the underdog, the mysterious misunderstood, and the rights of all people to be respected and accepted as their true selves, she remains our hero.

Her friends know her favorite Marvel character was Wanda the Scarlet Witch; she even had a baseball jersey and charm bracelet revealing her sense of identification with this beautiful, powerful, perplexing, deeply emotional figure. Both Wanda and Sandra exemplify a life of extreme joy, profound sadness, and an empathic charm and curse to feel so deeply that their own feelings define their most devastating magic. Clearly Sandra was a fan of all things Disney and the Multiverse. She had a beloved emotional support dog named Loki, and was sweet and girlish enough to love all the princesses, her dolls, makeup, beautiful fingernails, ribbons and tiaras.

Sandra was also a fan of the Rubik’s cube. She would regularly hand her cube to one of her parents to mix it up, then she would solve it quickly. Her mother shares that she will never again be able to turn the cube after Sandra’s final solution.

And in this we are confronted with the heart-breaking mystery of Sandra: a gorgeous, loving young woman, with vestiges of wisdom beyond her years entwined with the soft fragility of a child most tender. In the balance, today, we weigh her total relief from pain and the pure joy of deep acceptance she finds in Heaven, with the trauma the loss of her unmatched, loving, selfless acceptance of us all on this end of the scale.

Sandra could literally accomplish anything: she pleaded to pursue her father’s passion for hunting, and harvested her first deer at age 9; she followed her mother’s passion for math, and played 4 years of Varsity basketball. She stood tall as a young woman ready to lead girls into STEM careers, and her well rounded fearlessness and academic ability made her goal of serving families as a brain surgeon a very real possibility. She was no wilting flower. Yet she was a flower, beautiful within and without, and touched by all the heat and cold winds of this world. Her life inspires us to reach for and accept one another as we are, not just as others would force us to be; to lift each other up, and to hold the hand of the lonely.

Sandra was born to a WASP father and a multi-ethnic Peruvian mother who was always there for her. She grew up bilingual and multicultural, gracefully carrying within her virtually all elements of humanity. Foremost of these a passion to serve the less fortunate and to love, protect and save others.

We can remember her dancing, whether to folk music from Peru such as Festejo, or Salsa, Rock and Roll or Hip-hop regardless of if she knew the right steps and movements. In this she was always joyous and free and always, like her father, ready to play the clown. Every time we hear a song by Panic At The Disco, the Cranberries, or FN, or “Santa Baby” and “Mr. Grinch” at Christmas, she will rise to mind.

We will remember all her unfettered playful hysterical goofy faces and voices, her boisterous laughter and all the ways she goofed on the world and laughed with such pure delight when she played pranks on us: boy did she love an April Fools! So, as she pranked us again in her exit from the stage, we must seek in each other the love and joy she gave us all, and make it multiply in the service of God and others, just as she taught us. We love her to the moon and beyond, and so does she.

Our beloved Sandra is survived by her mother Sujey, her father Kevin, her outstanding brother Konor, her loving grandparents both here and in Peru, Vinton Fisher,

Hollace Twinning, and Ysabel Espinar, her devoted uncles and aunts both here and in Peru including, Cindy Cueva, Shawn and Linda Fisher, her amazing cousin Garrett, dozens of loving cousins in Peru, her godmother Claire Ann Kondig and godfather Jeffry Kunkler. She is now embraced by her grandmother Sandra Fisher in Heaven.

Please attend her Memorial Service this Friday, June 19, at 10 AM at St. Timothy Catholic Church at 13807 Poplar Tree Rd, Chantilly, VA, 20151. Phone: (703) 378-7646

Donations in Sandra’s Honor may be made to reputable organizations supporting underprivileged Girls pursuing STEM fields, or reputable organizations supporting mental health and suicide prevention in children and young adults.