When Mutti and Vati divorced, Mutti moved five of her six children into a large apartment in a nearby small town. About that time, Sonja quit working in the factory and was hired as a housekeeper by an older couple who both were doctors and had their offices on the ground floor of their home. Sonja worked as a housekeeper for several years.
At twenty-one, Sonja was called to serve a 25 month mission in Germany, on the Dutch border. She returned, moved to Frankfurt, and got hired as a secretary in a small travel office. At twenty-three, she married a US soldier, Gary Towne, in the London, England Temple, and two years later moved with him to the United States. After Gary was released from the Army, they moved with their first child to Provo Utah, and three years later moved with two children to Manti, where Sonja lived for sixteen years and had four more children. She also started attending Snow College in Ephraim.
Sonja received her Associate in English and Foreign Languages, divorced Gary and moved with her six children to Cedar City. Two years later, she received a BA in English, German, and Spanish, and a teaching certificate from SUU.
Sonja spent three years on the Navajo reservation in Monument Valley, teaching high school, then returned to Provo, where she attended BYU. There, she met and married Ken Herbert and a year later, received an MA in Language Acquisition.
Three years later the couple moved to Oregon , where they raised the last four of their children.
Sonja today
In 2007, With the youngest of their children happily at the university, Ken and Sonja moved to Germany to get to know Sonja's family again, and to find her lost younger brother. They returned to Provo in 2009, where Sonja finished her memoir.
Sonja has lived an interesting life, and believes that she will write at least one more memoir. Stay tuned!
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