The year before, he was awarded the Bragdgoldet after winning European gold in Falun and World Championship gold in Moscow in 1955.
- It will be extremely empty. We have had a rich life together for eleven years, but have known each other much longer. We met at the cemetery, having lost our respective ones. We had a lot in common and fell in love with each other, ”says Inger Schönberg, Sigge Ericsson's life partner on older days to P4 Jämtland.
Sigge Ericsson was born in Alanäs in northern Jämtland in 1930 and turned 89 years old.