INDIGO-KOEBEL-Obituary

INDIGO KOEBEL

New York, New York

Age 52

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KOEBEL--Indigo, died January 13 at the age of 52. Indigo was predeceased by his beloved partner of 24 years, Gilbert Turchin. He is survived by his and Gil's "special blessing" Jerae Dawson. Indigo is also survived by his parents, Larry and Laura Koebel, his brother and sister-in-law, Larry and...

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I can´t believe how many times I´ve reached for my phone to share a thought with you. You´ll always be in my heart, I´m so very glad to have you as a dear friend love Linda

There is not a day that goes by without thinking about you, wanting to reach for the phone and talk about anything That´s what we did...miss you

I feel so blessed to have had Indigo as a teacher during such an important, formative time in my life. I am now a teacher myself and I find myself stealing his lines! I am grateful for the opportunity to participate in honoring Indigo today at the memorial. I will continue to honor him by remembering to always teach as he did, with genuine passion, a sense of humor, positive energy and love.

Our business trip to London back in 2013 to start distributing him Magazine over in Europe, he was so excited!!!

I met Indigo about 12 years ago shortly after he called me to help publish his magazine that about 12 other printers, said they weren't interested. I AM SO GRATEFUL these other people declined him. I feel honored to have gotten to know such a amazing human being. Gone way, way, way too soon, but your are with Gill now & smiling down on all of us. Gone but I will NEVER forget you Indigo. Love Paul Xoxo

Indigo and the Koebel family was such a powerful and positive influence on my formative years. I am forever grateful for the love, support, rigatoni, and friendship when I was in HS. Indigo was such an amazing force of nature, and I am overwhelmed by the phenomenal influence he had on so many others once he got out of our small burg of Westerville. The world is such a better place because Indigo was a part of it.

Beautiful event today, Everyone. Thank you, dear Carolyn, and everyone.

I remember Indigo's 50th Birthday Banquet -- bagpipes and all!

Love, Io, Indigo!
Bob

I was a student at Center school when Indigo first joined. I only knew him a few years there, but his impact was far more deep, a bigger imprint.

He was one of the first people, especially in a teacher or faculty capacity that crossed the boarder in letting you into their true persona - Indigo was unapologetically him - so comfortable in his own skin you couldn’t help but be magnetized to him and as we were in our tween years, figuring out who we were, it was an amazing example to...

Coolest, sweetest , most interesting person I’ve ever met.