Both spouses affected by Covid
Francesca Artico
March 15, 2021
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GONARS. They never broke up. They also entered the hospital together, on the same day: last March 3, when Covid entered their lives. And not even death was able to divide them: they left within 10 days of each other. Valter Pelegrini and Luciana Gigante, united in sickness, in good and in evil, always ready to help whoever was left behind. And it was once again like this.
Valter Pelegrini, 83, and Luciana Gigante, 80, had been hospitalized in Palmanova due to the worsening of the pathologies they suffered, both accentuated by the positivity to the virus.
He passed away after only three days, on March 6.
On Saturday the funeral was celebrated with the participation of the Alpine troops, present at the ceremony of “farewell to this earthly life of our dear”, the family members gratefully recall. Luciana joined him yesterday morning, at the behest of a destiny that almost seems to have wanted to respect them: in fact, she had not been informed that her partner was no longer there.
Until the end she had asked about him, about how his Valter was, receiving in exchange that bona fide lie of his loved ones, who did not want to further destabilize her. A few days, however: the situation precipitated and even Luciana did not make it. Valter and Luciana leave their children Ivan and Marco, the latter lived with them in Gonars, in a house that is now empty.
The funeral of Luciana Gigante has not yet been set.
Valter Pelegrini, was originally from San Giorgio, where he had long worked as an employee of the Farina Mills: after his marriage he had moved to Gonars. Luciana had been an employee of a cleaning company, but in her youth she had worked in a factory and had emigrated to Switzerland for a period. “She was a woman who never stood still,” says her niece Oriana, who also remembers how “her aunt and uncle lived for each other”.
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