Benjamin and Matilda FunkI will start my new blog in honor of my grandparents Benjamin Stewart and Matilda Hassler Funk. They are my fathers parents. They are gone but still very much alive in my heart and thoughts. They lived most of their life in Hagerstown, Maryland. I grew up in Michigan about 500 miles from them. So I have not much time with them, but when we made a trip for a visit on weekends or week long vacations, they were always around. I remember many visits to their home, Thanksgiving dinner with the whole family (which turned out to be very much like a family reunion), and a few times when they visited us here in Michigan.
I remember when I was about 13 or 14 years old, my Grandmother showed me a picture of her mother and I thought it was a picture or her. It was a little black and white picture. I never even asked what her mother's name was. I wish then I asked her more about her mother and father. Then many years later visiting my Maryland family, requesting my aunts, uncles and cousins for family photos for me to copy on my scanner and my Aunt Doris gave me a wonderful surprise. It was a hand colored portrait of my grandmother's mother the very same picture grandma showed me when I was a child. Her name was Eleanor Patton Hassler. I have it hanging in my living room. Thank you Aunt Doris I will cherish it forever.
I have so much to write about of my Funk family. I am every exicted starting this blog so I can share all my notes, stories and pictures I collected and researched for over 15 years.
