Sandra Bokovay began her career as head of the music department at Ozark Academy in Arkansas. A graduate of Union College, where she completed a religion degree and minors in music and secondary education at age eighteen, she had completed the high school program at Southwestern Junior college at age fifteen and, at age seventeen, transferred to UC, where she graduated a year later.

She married Alex Bokovoy in 1955. They then served in Ethiopia for eighteen years and in Singapore for two years before returning to Texas. While in Ethiopia, Sandra served in several capacities in child ministries, including in the area of school music. In their two years in Singapore, she led a children's choir, the Daybreak Singers, which sang for the U.S. Ambassador.

In addition to serving as Pathfinder director in Texas, Bokovoy organized a teenage choir, Sonlight Singers, which toured in the Bahamas and Washington, D.C., and traveled to Israel, where they participated in the production of a film, Ancient Dawn. She has also worked with handbell choirs.

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Based on information at the Hopps Museum website: http://museum.swau.edu/history/people