Sandy Bertrand, known to many as Big Sandy, was born on July 21, 1964 in Fairfax, Virginia, to the late Ollie Bertrand Sr. and Helen S. Diamond-Bertrand.  Sandy was the youngest of eight siblings.  Sandy entered his eternal rest on December 24, 2024, at Lansdowne Hospital in Leesburg, Virginia. He was surrounded by his children and their mother.

At an early age, Sandy dedicated his life to the Lord and rededicated his life in 1994 at Fairfax Baptist Temple under Pastor Bud Calvert. Sandy later joined Prosperity Baptist Church in Chantilly, Virginia under the leadership of Bishop Willie Johnson.

Sandy received his education in the Fairfax County Public School system, where he attended James W. Robinson Jr. Secondary High School. Big Sandy was a superstar athlete on the football team where he was a running back for the Robinson Rams. When he wasn't playing football, he was on the basketball court "down on Zion Drive" training for the NBA.

Sandy was a truck driver for well over 30+ years where he drove trucks for Capitol Paving (Asphalt Truck), Jefferies Trash Service, BFI Waste Management, and Seneca Excavating & Landscaping. If you knew Big Sandy, then you knew that he enjoyed working on cars.  He made sure to teach his daughter's an important life-skill "showing and watching" them change a tire!  Working on cars was not just a hobby – he was a certified mechanic in his own right – and a good and loyal one at that!  Sandy enjoyed other hobbies, and was very competitive, such as bowling, basketball, football, car shows, drag racing and horseshoes.

Big Sandy loved spending time with his children and grandchildren. He is survived by: his children, Samuel T. Bertrand-Jackson (Jenny), Tanisha Jackson, Stephanee Jackson, Nikki Jackson, Devon Jackson, Cassaundra Bertrand, Brittany Bertrand, and their mother, Angela; his grandchildren Jaida, Jaycion, Rylee, Aaron, Kyan, Keilani, Damarii, Aria, Wrenley, Melani-Rose and Yurianna; his siblings, Ollie Bertrand Jr. (Joann), Mike Bertrand, Tony Bertrand, Ted Bertrand, Penny Bertrand, and a host of uncles, aunts, nieces, and nephews, and a multitude of friends.

He was predeceased by his parents, Ollie Betrand, Sr. and Helen S. Diamond-Bertrand, and his sisters Rose Lee Bertrand and Bonnie Bertrand.

Sandy touched the lives of so many throughout his 60 years of life.  He was a "one in a million" father, brother, uncle and friend to all that knew and loved him.