Sonja M. Wilson

This story is short and full of LOVE. So what I do know, is that on April 1, 1941 the exquisite and stunning Sonja Mae Wilson (Sandi) was born and was raised in Philadelphia, PA.  She met and married the handsome Harlan Harry Wilson and during their union was born a beautiful and delightful daughter named Nandi Louise Wilson.

On September 24, 015, Sonja Mae Wilson (Sandi) passed away in Fairfield Nursing Home from Lung Cancer at the age of 74 years young.  She was strong, feisty, full of life, spirited, and always had a smile on her face. In 2000, Sandi had an out of ordinary experience with Christ and began and continued to cultivate her own love relationship with God.

Sandi worked and retired from the State of Maryland as an Unemployment Benefits counselor for 15 years before retiring in 2001.  She loved helping people and this was her way of making a mark in the work place that could never be erased. She had a customer that was looking for unemployment benefits.  He was assigned to Sandi’s case load.  His first question to her was “Do you actually have to be unemployed and without a job to get unemployment or can you use it as supplement money?” That was the day she started thinking about retirement.

Sandi attended Cheyney State where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts with a major in English Studies.  This explains why she insisted on correcting me while I was talking on the phone with friends.  “The word is not ain’t as there is no such word.  The word is isn’t and IF you don’t learn how to speak proper English, you will not be allowed to talk on the phone ever again.”  Of course I was never allowed to speak slang.  At least in hearing distance.

Anyone who knew Sandi, recognized the one true love of her life, not her daughter.  She had a very public and sometimes embarrassing love affair with the Dallas Cowboys for over 50 years.   She was known as a walking almanac to her friends.  She would watch all the interviews before the game and the half time report.  Sandi knew who all the past and current owners, coaches, and players for all the teams.  During football season, every Sunday and every Monday night football, she would be found in front of the television with snacks and drinks.  No one was allow to call the house or even talk with her during any football game, especially if the Cowboys were playing the mighty Redskins.  One day her daughter, Nandi, tried to call her mother on a Sunday during a football game that happened to feature the Dallas Cowboys and the mighty Washington Redskins.  Her daughter was in Pakistan on travel for her job.  The time difference was about 12 hours which made it difficult to always connect at a convenient time.  Sandi said, “Awww,,,mommie loves the baby, but the Cowboys are playing and you have to call back later.” And actually hung up the phone.

Sandi had a cat a long long long time ago. The cat decided to have her babies during the Monday night football game.  Uh, does anyone know how to deliver kittens?  Of course Cowboys were playing that night.  After the game, Nandi told her mother that the cat had babies.  Sandi said “wait the cat was pregnant?”  Oh boy, embarrassing.

Sandi has gone to heaven to live out eternity.  She is sitting right now in her mansion with wall to wall flat screen televisions.  Watching every game and eating heavenly snacks.  She is walking and talking with her friend Jesus.  We celebrate her very life and her memory will live forever in our hearts.

The love between a mother and daughter is forever.  She loves her baby girl.  Nandi loves her mommy.  The two shared a great passion for life and for each other.  Sandi leaves to cherish her memory a devoted daughter, Nandi; a host of loving friends, Jimmy, Butch, Ervin and Shona Fields, Doris Wilson, Lillian Logan, and Justine Devan.

A memorial visition will be held Friday evening October 2, 2015 from 7:00 untill 9:00 in the Donaldson Funeral Home Chapel.