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Sonja Tudela Obituary
11/06/1942 - 02/24/2024
Sonja was born in Houston on the 6th of November 1942, to Olga Ripley-Pérez and Louis J. Ripley, and passed away peacefully at home in Houston at 2:57PM on Saturday, the 24th of February 2024. She was 81 years of age. She had been under home hospice care since September of 2022 suffering from PPA (Primary Progressive Aphasia), a type of front temporal dementia with no cure or treatment.
Sonja grew up along side her younger sister Lydia and brother Carlos.
Sonja graduated from Mount Carmel Academy as well as a Business Academy in Houston. She worked for the Postmaster General at the Main Post Office in downtown Houston. In 1962, Sonja met Alberto Tudela, a Venezuelan engineering student at University of Houston. They married on the 6th of September 1966.
After Alberto graduated from U. of H. in 1967, they went to live in Venezuela and had three children. Sonja and Alberto moved permanently back to Houston in 2006.
Sonja is survived by her brother, Carlos Ripley and his family; her husband, Alberto Tudela-Reverter; their three children, Marina and her husband Edgar, Patricia and her husband Fernando, and Alberto Luis and his wife Javiera; and their eight grandchildren, Marina Isabel, Clarissa, Isabella, Emilio, Catalina, Chiara, Luis Alberto and Lucia.
A Memorial Mass is to be offered in Spanish at ten o'clock in the morning on Friday, the 1st of March at St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church, 6800 Buffalo Speedway in Houston.
Friends are cordially invited to a memorial reception with the family from half past three o'clock in the afternoon until six o'clock in the evening on Sunday, the 3rd of March, in the grand foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.
Please visit Mrs. Tudela's online memorial tribute at GeoHLewis.com where fond memories and words of comfort and condolence may be shared electronically with her family.
"May Sonja rest in peace in the hands of the Lord knowing her spirit remains with us in cherished memories."
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Manuel Fuentes
December 19, 2024
Siempre recordada!!
Jack Hay
March 2, 2024
A very fond memory and tribute to the wonderful wife of my good friend Alberto
Maria de Lourdes Tanner Zalduondo
March 1, 2024
Marina y familia: les deseo mucha fortaleza en este momento tan difícil. Que en paz descanse. María Tanner
Silvina Pérez
March 1, 2024
Mis más sentido pésame. Te mando un abrazo fuerte para vos y toda tu familia
Mónica Marschik
March 1, 2024
Mi querida familia, siempre lo pasamos juntos súper lindo desde pequeñas y siempre nos dieron tanto amor mi tía Sonja y tío Alberto y para nosotros siempre serán mis Tíos queridos ! Y Marina y Patricia y Alberto mis primos. Los quiero y a mi tía Sonja la recordaremos con mucho cariño siempre ! Toda la familia Marschik
Jorge Yatim
February 28, 2024
Reciba toda la familia Tudela, nuestra más sentida palabra de condolencia por tan irreparable pérdida. Animo, serenidad y fuerza. Godspeed!
Manuel Fuentes
February 28, 2024
Mi mas sentido pesame, QDEP!
Raissa
February 28, 2024
Se por lo que estan pasando.un fuerte abrazo para toda la familia.y mas fuerte aun para Alberto,su compañero de vida. Siempre un amigo muy querido. Siempre. Raissa
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