Katharina Kink was probably Bavaria's longest-serving waitress. Now Naring's host Kathi has died at the age of 96 after a fulfilled life.
Naring - As a waitress she ran around the world more than twice. She was able to prove this with her pedometer, which she had clipped to her skirt since 1977 - just half of her working life: Kathi Kink has served guests at the Zum Goldenen Tal inn in Naring near Weyarn for more than 80 years. Now the tireless has fallen asleep forever. Two days after the nonsensical Thursday, when she liked to be in top form when she was younger as a Haberer or a policeman, she died at the age of 96.
Most recently, Kathi Kink lived in a retirement home in Feldkirchen-Westerham. But her home was the inn in Naring: at the end of 1939 she came to the Huber family from Prien as a 16-year-old to do her housekeeping compulsory year with the innkeepers. But when the mandatory year was over and the landlady was pregnant again, she stayed. First for the sake of the landlady, then for life.
Kathi Kink was not just a waitress, it was part of the family
The Kathi was not just a waitress, it belonged to the family. She lovingly looked after all five children of the host couple and four foster children. "The children were my everything," she said herself. She even did Santa Claus with a beard and a disguised voice. She did not start her own family, lived with her host family for most of her life. And came back again and again, even when she was traveling to the Dominican Republic and Singapore.
The lively and dedicated Kathi Kink could not let go of the serving. For the 80th "service anniversary" in October 2019, it was even honored for the second time by the Bavarian Ministry of Labor. Even after she had already lived in the retirement home, she was "at our inn at least once a week," says host Albert Huber. She made sure that everything was right, rattled with guests she had known for decades. "She was mentally fit until the end."
The funeral service will take place on Thursday, March 5, 2020, in Feldkirchen-Westerham in St. Laurentius, a wreath of death roses on Wednesday, March 4, in Holzolling.
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