This memorial website was created in memory of Dee Triemer, 49, born on November 1, 1965 and passed away on May 19, 2015. We will remember her forever and she will always be with us.
Dee Rhonda Carpenter Triemer, 49, of Buford, Georgia passed away Tuesday, May 19, 2015 after a short but valiant fight against cancer in April of this year. Dee was born in Kinsport, Tennessee to Barry and Sharon Carpenter. She received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Kennesaw State University in 1991. She met her future husband, Michael Triemer, in Tampa, Florida where she worked as the Director of Human Resources for AT&T Atlantic. In 2002 they relocated to the Atlanta area with their four children shortly after their daughter, Ashley, was diagnosed with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC). Dee quickly became a tireless advocate for her daughter and others with TSC. She established the TS Alliance Chapter in Tampa before moving to Atlanta where she helped organize the first TS Walk in 2003 to help raise funds for TSC research. After filling numerous volunteer roles with the TS Alliance and being named a 2007 Volunteer of the Year, Dee joined the TS Alliance staff in 2008 as Community Outreach Manager. She was later named Director of Special Events and Corporate Partnerships, leading the TS Alliance's special event and community fundraising efforts. She oversaw the national Step Forward to Cure TSC walkathon program, which raised millions during her tenure. Dee also directed the TS Alliance's signature event, Comedy for a Cure. She was a member of the Hamilton Mill United Methodist Church where she helped create their special needs program. She is survived by her parents, Barry and Sharon Carpenter, her older brother, Jerry Carpenter, her former spouse, Michael Triemer, and their four children, Christopher, 18, Jeffrey, 17, Ethan, 14, and Ashley, 13, her grandmother, Geneva Hancock, along with numerous loving aunts, cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.
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NYC and hotel carts
Circa 2011: You and I were in a tail spin....the venue for NY Comedy changed, and you and I were trying to figure out how we were going to get the silent auction items to the new venue...without making a billion trips from the hotel to the venue and back again.
So you sweet talked a bellman at the hotel, and you scored us a cart...complete with velvet floor and the wierd steering that those carts have.
We laughed the entire way to the venue, we said we needed a license to drive it, and ran...not walked along side the cart making sure we left no item behind and that nothing would fall and break.
When we arrived at the new venue...we were defeated....STAIRS...so you smiled at me, and pep rallied how many calories we would lose, and how much healthier we would feel...1st trip down...NO problem, but as we were both smokers...that 1st trip back up was a beast...we supported each other every step...laughing and coughing the whole time..."C'mon Dee 25 more steps...lol" .... "Tyler keep your eyes on the prize, errr the rail".....all in all we did it, sweat soaked and lungs full of fire.
We set up the silent auction space super fast, so that we had a minute before having to change for the event....to go outside and smoke a cigarette...
I asked my husband, Stephen Perlman to write a song for Dee, which I recorded on my Kindle Fire and uploaded on my Facebook page on May 16, 2015.