Sonja Louise Trierweiler

Sonja was born July 11, 1939, in Chicago, Illinois. She was the daughter of Olaf and Alfhild (Eliasson) Helland.
She was raised and educated primarily in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from South High School in Denver
in 1958.
She started college at Colorado State University in 1958; was married to John Trierweiler in 1960; and returned
to college at Ohio State University in 1973. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Ohio State University in
1975 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. She was admitted to practice as a Certified Public
Accountant (CPA) by the Accountancy Board of Ohio in 1978, and was a member of Beta Alpha Psi (National
Accounting Fraternity) – Omicron Chapter
Her working career consisted of being a practicing CPA with two Public CPA firms; being a corporate controller;
being an accounting/audit advisor for US Agency for International Development in Uganda and being a math
teacher at the American School in Somalia.
She followed her husband around the world and has enjoyed many interesting and challenging experiences.
They moved to the mountains of North Carolina at retirement and then headed west to Buffalo, Wyoming in
1999 to care for her husband’s parents. She was always involved with volunteer, church, and club activities and
loved to help her family when needed.
Sonja passed from this life on March 29th, 2023, at the age of 83, in Highlands Ranch, Colorado Survivors
include her husband, John, of 62 years, and three daughters: Tammy Wooley (daughters Andrea and Karolyn)
of Seattle, Washington, Colonel (Retired) Debi Roberts (husband, Elliott, and children, Ben, Josh and Naomi)
of Centennial, Colorado, and Caryl Wojcik (husband, Mark, and children, Eryn and Lauryn) of Littleton,
Colorado. She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother Allan Helland of Plymouth, Michigan.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.

I’m Free

Don’t grieve for me, for now I’m free
I’m following the path God laid for me.
I took His hand when I heard him call
I turned my back and left it all.
I could not stay another day
To laugh, to love, to work, or play.
Tasks left undone must stay that way.
I found that place at the close of day.
If my parting has left a void
Then fill it with remembered joy
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss
As yes, these things I too, will miss
Be not burdened with times of sorrow
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.
My life’s been full, I savored much.
Good friends, good times, a loved one’s touch
Perhaps my time seemed all too brief,
Don’t lengthen it now with undue grief.
Lift up your heart and share with me

God wanted me now, He set me free.
- Author unknown