Her smile will not be forgotten: the good soul from Höhenkirchen succumbed to cancer

Created: 08/06/2022, 12:22 p.m

By: Stefan Weinzierl

Ingeborg Gigl loved dancing and socializing.

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She really wanted to take part in the garage flea market again, but Ingeborg Gigl's wish was no longer fulfilled: the 53-year-old from Höhenkirchen recently succumbed to cancer.

Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn – At the end of July she was buried with great sympathy, as her husband Hans Gigl says: "Around 180 people came to the funeral."

Ingeborg Gigl was born in Munich in 1968.

She met her husband in 1993 at the carnival ball "Dance of the hot panties" of the Siegertsbrunn boys.

No wonder: "Dancing was our greatest passion," says Hans Gigl.

The dance acquaintance quickly turned into great love, in the autumn of 1993 Ingeborg Gigl moved from Munich to Höhenkirchen.

They got married on August 22, 1998.

“We also met on a 22nd.

That was simply our month of the month, which we also celebrated regularly," says her husband.

So they came up with something special on the 22nd of every month: "Either there were flowers, I cooked for them or we went out to eat."

Obituary for Ingeborg Gigl: She loved dancing and socializing

The couple, who have a grown-up daughter, are not only connected by dancing, but by socializing.

"My wife was a very cheerful person and took part in everything possible." Ingeborg Gigl didn't necessarily have to be a member of a club.

His wife just pitched in, emphasizes the husband - be it serving mulled wine on Christmas Eve or preparing snacks for the warriors' club or the fire brigade.

Ingeborg Gigl was a member of the Sauerlach archers.

“She had back problems and sport did her good,” says Hans Gigl.

Right from the start she was really enthusiastic about the garage flea market, which the working group coexistence organizes once a year in the village.

"My wife really thrived there." It was sold in the Gigl-Stadl.

According to her husband, the passionate Dirndl wearer mutated into a professional fashion consultant there.

"A delivery van in the Stadl was converted into a changing room." In addition to clothing, she sold homemade jam and her daughter's used toys.

"She simply gave away a lot because she loved children so much." In the evening, when she came into the house, her cheeks literally glowed, Hans Gigl remembers, "and she beamed all over her face".

Great sadness for Ingeborg Gigl: In a wheelchair, she still wanted to go to the garage flea market

Inge Gigl was always concerned with promoting community life in the village, says Diana Müller.

The spokeswoman for the Working Group on Living Together couldn't believe it when she received the registration for this year's garage flea market from the terminally ill woman.

"She dictated that to me, she absolutely wanted to drop by while she was still in a wheelchair," says Hans Gigl.

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But her condition continued to deteriorate, and she was eventually transferred from her home to the Ebersberg district clinic.

There she closed her eyes forever on Leonhardi Sunday.

"She passed away peacefully and pain free.

I think it was ultimately a release for her,” says her husband.

And even though Ingeborg Gigl was no longer able to sell anything at the garage flea market on July 23, she was omnipresent.

A photo of the deceased adorned the Gigl-Stadl, reminding everyone of the committed woman, mother and native of Höhenkirch.

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