Isen - Erna Sixt from Fahrnbach celebrated her 90th birthday in a good mood.
"I can't even imagine that I'm that old," she said with a smile.
Even the well-wishers found it difficult to recognize a 90-year-old in the agile senior citizen.
Because even if walking is difficult for her, the jubilee is so fit that she can do most of her housework herself.
Every Saturday she cooks for her son, who lives in the house with his family. “We are especially happy when they have their roast pork,” says Josef Sixt, praising his mother's cooking skills. The elderly woman's daily routine also includes reading the newspaper and doing crossword puzzles. She works through whole stacks of magazines every week. Because everyone in the family and the acquaintance knows that Erna Sixt likes to solve puzzles, she receives many magazines as gifts.
The jubilee was born as Ernestine Maurer in Fleck, just a few kilometers from Fahrnbach.
In Josef Sixt she found the man for life.
She knew her husband, who was only a year older, practically all her life.
“We went to school together,” she says.
Before her marriage, she worked for Siemens in Munich and in the kitchen of the slaughterhouse and cattle yard on Zenettistraße.
During the week, I took the bus from Mittbach to work in the state capital.
"Back then it was easier to come to Munich publicly than it is today," said Mayor Michael Feuerer, who brought the congratulations from the community and a shopping voucher for shops in Isen.
After the wedding in 1961, Sixt helped her husband's farm and looked after the five children. Unfortunately, her husband died in 1989, and shortly afterwards Erna Sixt gave up farming. The jubilee, who always likes to be around people, has never been bored, even after the adult children have moved away.
She sang in the Pemmeringen church choir for 65 years. She also fondly remembers the excursions with the country women. In the meantime, if Corona allows, she meets once a month with the "Gray Panthers", as the group of friends of the same age calls itself. The big birthday was celebrated together with the family, which now includes ten grandchildren as well as three great-grandchildren, and the two sisters - Sixt's twin brother died four years ago. “After all, you only turn 90 once,” said Erna Sixt. (Anne Huber)
