Michele Lillian Wiegand, age 74, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, due to sudden complications from metastatic cancer. Michele was born to Arthur and Mary Wiegand on April 14, 1951. She was preceded in death by her parents and her sister Vicky Wiegand. She is survived by her beloved husband, Sidney Gasner, and daughter, Ananda Wiegand. She is also survived by stepdaughter Shenessa Hanson, stepgrandchildren Brandon Roberts and Ashley Roberts, along with nieces Luisa Wiegand and Pearl McGuire and nephew Rolan Wiegand.

Michele lived a colorful, rich inner and outer life. She was beautiful inside and out. Light, truth and creativity followed her wherever she went: as a visual artist, potter, Master Gardener, Executive Director of PRG, housing advocate, realtor agent and broker, Partners of the Americas Fellow, yogi, tipi dweller, stone house builder, Zumba dancer, meditation practitioner, thirty year Al-Anon member, bicyclist, inspiring cook who brought people together at her table, relentless card and Scrabble player, Crab Apple Blossom Festival organizer extraordinaire, and world traveler-adventurer with Sidney and Ananda. Michele was both the gardener and the garden. Michele thrived!

“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change” - Buddha

“She whom you love and lose is no longer where she was before, she is now wherever you are.” - Saint John Chrysostom

“The soul does not love; it is love itself. It does not exist; it is existence itself. It does not know; it is knowledge itself.” - Swami Prabhavananda

A Memorial Service and Celebration of Life will be held on July 3, 2025, at St. Joan of Arc, 4537 3rd Ave S, Minneapolis, MN. Visitation will be held at 10 am, followed by a service at 11 am. 

In place of flowers, the family kindly asks that donations be mailed to the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary, a place that reflects Michele's love of nature and beauty, at their address 3800 Bryant Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55409, or to the Farmer to Farmer program.