DECEMBER 21
Glaida Funk, matriarch of Funk's Grove Maple Sirip has died at age 94.
Her husband Steve died in 2015 at age 90. They were married for almost 70 years and had run Funk's Grove Maple Sirip since 1947.
Other family members ran it before that.
We met her on our first Route 66 trip in 2002. We pulled into their place after closing time and got out of the car to look at it. A woman came up to us from the house across the road and we told her this was our first time on 66. She opened the store for us. Her name was Glaida.
We didn't have much of a chance not to get smitten by 66 on that first trip as we also got a chance to meet and talk with Rich Henry, Bill Shea and Tom Teague.
We Got the Full Route 66 Treatment That Trip. No Wonder We Got "Hooked." --RoadDog
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