Sandra Anne Bocko

North Hampton- Sandra Anne Fuller Bocko, 70, of North Hampton, NH, departed from the loved ones gathered by her side after braving her third battle with cancer on July 13, 2024. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Peter and Joan Fuller on December 17, 1953, she graduated from Brimmer and May School and attended Bradford Junior College. In addition to working at Marston School as a teacher’s aide, Sandy was employed by Applecrest Farm Orchards and Richie McFarland Center. She also volunteered throughout the New Hampshire seacoast area and co-owned Gus’ Bike Shop with her beloved husband John Raymond Bocko. She and John met in the late sixties when he accompanied other family members to her house. While jumping on her bed and playing air guitar to Jimi Hendrix, Sandy noticed John in the hallway and thought his long hair was cute. The light of their life was their cherished daughter Kendra Alice Bocko, who eventually became Sandy’s devoted caretaker during her final months on Earth. Sandy spent her life making friends, pursuing and practicing spiritual truths, and expressing her one-of-a-kind vision of the world. No one who met her even for a moment could forget her presence, announced before she entered a room by her giddy laughter and the jangling of her crowded keychain (rivaled only by the panoply of bumper stickers on her colorful cars, expressing peace, love, and all forms of eccentric humor). Conversations could encompass unique anecdotes about daily life or the mysteries of the universe, punctuated by a playful and subtle wit, but she expressed herself through many other means as well. She danced and drummed as outlets for boundless energy. Whether crafting fashion, jewelry, clay figures, sketches, collages, mandalas, or all forms of visual art, Sandy’s creativity knew no bounds. She vividly expressed her characteristic curiosity and empathy in many forms, always with a style and sensibility unmistakably her own. If she dazzled acquaintances who briefly encountered her brilliance, she became a sustaining force of love and enlightenment for those closest to her. These especially included her grandchildren Taylor Raymond and Kayla Anne Duvall, who shared a home with Sandy – their adored “Mozzle” - while she experienced her last discoveries, struggles, and moments for meditation. After her long convalescence indoors, only a week before her passing, they helped her return to the beach for the Fourth of July, an intergenerational gathering which will always be remembered by those who were present to marvel at her willpower and resilience. In addition to her daughter and grandchildren, Sandy is survived by siblings Mindy Bocko (and her husband Stan), Suzi Fuller MacDonald, Peter Fuller (and his wife Kathy), Abby Fuller, Jessy Fuller, Charlotte Fuller, and Michelle Fuller, as well as twenty-six beloved nieces and nephews and many grandnieces and nephews. In addition to her husband and parents, she was predeceased by her nephew Paul Sean Fuller-Porter. A wake will be held on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 from 3PM to 5PM in the Remick & Gendron Funeral Home- Crematory, 811 Lafayette Road, Hampton. A service will be held immediately following the wake. Private burial with be in the Central Cemetery, Rye. Her legacy will live on in the memories left behind.

Sandra Anne Bocko

December 17, 1953 - July 13, 2024