Helena Munitia Binder was born in Burg Rothenfels am Main, Germany, on September 20,1939, and passed away on August 22, 2021, in White River Junction, Vermont. She and her husband Gerd grew up in adjoining villages in Germany and immigrated first to Canada in 1956 and then to the United States, where they lived in Colorado Springs for many years.

Helena managed an antique store and art gallery in Colorado Springs and enjoyed telling her clients about the history of each piece in the gallery. She loved —in no particular order — a good piece of Black Forest Cherry Torte, Stuart Weitzman shoes, Revlon Salmon Ice lipstick, Pikes Peak and Garden of the Gods, coffee served in a nice cup and saucer (never a mug), burgundy curtains with lace sheers, and her family, especially her family, and her granddaughter Georgia above all. She was as loving a mother as any daughter could hope for.

Helena helped friends and strangers alike. She brought them cookies when they were sick; she helped them fill out official forms on her old typewriter. She knew every English and continental silver hallmark. She broke all her good china one piece at a time. She prowled consignment stores and garage sales like an apex predator. She thought Ingo Rademacher was very handsome but not as handsome as her husband. She loved children and animals and had a treat ready for all her neighbors' dogs. She talked about death and currency collapses at holiday parties. She went hiking in the Mojave Desert in low-heeled leather pumps because sneakers were too "klotzig." Everywhere she went she found someone she knew.

The world is less beautiful and less interesting without her in it, but her family takes comfort in the thought that she is reunited now with the husband she loved so much. Helena is survived by her daughter, Lisa Binder, her son-in-law, David Kahn, and her granddaughter, Georgia Lee Kahn (all of Lyme, NH). She was predeceased by her husband, Gerd Binder.

Funeral arrangements are being made by Knight Funeral Home in White River Junction. Condolences may be expressed to Helena's family in an online guestbook at www.knightfuneralhomes.com.

In lieu of flowers, donations are welcome in Helena's name to St. Jude's Children's Hospital and Wounded Warriors, two causes about which she cared deeply.