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Last December, grandmother Maria Mircheva and grandfather Sabi Gichev celebrated their centenary together
On their vacation last December, Grandma Maria and Grandpa Sabi were in good health and in good spirits.
Sabi Gichev from Sennik village Sevlievo celebrates her 100th birthday on December 29, 2019.The VIP guest of the celebration was her villager Maria Mircheva, born a day earlier, on December 28, 1919. According to church archives in Sennik, the two were baptized into one. bath and in the same water. They are classmates until third grade in the rural school.
On September 26, 2016, Gen. Stilian Kovachev’s granddaughter Olya Nikolcheva / right / visits grandmother Maria Mircheva’s house in the village of Sennik, in Sevlievo. The two met for the first and last time in 80 years: Maria was the general’s servant in 1936.
Their common feast, which does not happen often in a village, was fun, the two jubilees showed good humor, they were healthy, cheerful and cheerful. Unfortunately, they both left this world last year.
Grandpa Sabi, who died on June 27, was the first to leave. Grandma Maria closed her eyes on November 1. Three weeks earlier, she had suffered a stroke and an ambulance doctor asked her relatives what to do to heal a 100-year-old woman.
“24 Chasa” wrote about Maria Mircheva de Sennik many times due to an interesting fact from her biography. At the age of 16, she was worshiped as a servant in Sofia. He came to the home of the Balkan War hero Gen. Stilian Kovachev in 1936, when he was 76 years old. He cooked, he bought. Grandma Maria recalled various details of her life in this house. He was happy to say that his three grandchildren, the sons of General Dimitrina Kovacheva’s daughter, used to go to the general’s house for lunch. The young woman did not suspect that twenty years earlier her mother, better known as Miti, was the great love of the Turkish military attaché in Bulgaria and later the creator of modern Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. But the general does not give her to him as a wife.
After 6 months at home, Maria returned to the village, where at 18 she married her beloved Kancho. They have two children with him. The centenary did not want a birthday present, she had everything. It was said that when he turned 97 he said: “It seems that I am getting old.”
For the first time, “24 hours” wrote about Grandmother Maria, the former maid of Gen. Stilian Kovachev, in October 2015. Surprised that she is still alive and well, the general’s heirs, including Dimitrina / Miti’s youngest daughter / Olya Nikolcheva, they get in touch with her, one of the three children that in In 1936, Mariyka served during Sunday lunches at her grandfather’s house. And in September 2016, Olya personally visited Grandma Maria in Sennik, so the two met again after 80 years thanks to “24 hours”. At that time, the former maid was already 96 years old and the general’s granddaughter, 88.
The two never saw each other again, but stayed in touch by phone until the end. Olya Nikolcheva, or as everyone called her Aunt Ole, died on October 15 of this year. at the age of 92 in his house in Sofia, 16 days before Grandma Maria.
And the story of the Sennik village general’s maid understandably piqued the interest of other media after “24 Chasa” found her. For the last time, in October of this year, days before the spill hit her, she was the star of a report on bTV. She shared that she saw it on TV, but didn’t like it.
Until the end of her days, Grandmother Maria lived alone in the fields and had prepared for winter: she picked the grapes from the vine and put the pickles. “When he fell on the bed, he was talking again, but he had a hard time understanding,” said his daughter-in-law Stefka, who lives in Gabrovo. Like more dying people, he spoke of his mother and father, of his dead loved ones. Her relatives fulfilled the centennial’s last wish: to be buried in her mother Gena’s grave. It was she who once sent her as a servant to Sofia, but that was the fate of most of Sennik’s girls.
Sabi Gichev spent the first phase of World War II on the battlefield and resigned as a corporal. He then returned to his hometown and married his favorite girl, Peshka. This happened in May 1945, their marriage was the first civil marriage in Sennik, concluded according to the new canons of popular power. They have a son. Grandfather Sabi is one of the founders of the trading company for retail in Sevlievo, and when he was 48 years old, he had to graduate, albeit in absentia, from an economic technical school. After retiring on January 1, 1980, he remained in the City Council direction of the local cooperative, also dedicated to public works. In Sevlievo he is also remembered as a jury in the local court in the years 1963-2000.
On the occasion of his centenary, Defense Minister Krassimir Karakachanov awarded him the jubilee medal “75 years of the Second World War”.
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