Lucille Pech will be honored as grand marshal of the Atlanta Fall Festival Parade in the Route 66 town of Atlanta, Ill., reported the Lincoln Courier.
The newspaper gives some background:
Pech views Atlanta as the perfect hometown, a place where everyone knows each other, and everyone is each other’s neighbor.
Pech was asked to be curator of the Atlanta Museum in 1973 and continues as curator to this day.
She also is a founding member of the Abraham Lincoln Tourism Bureau of Logan County. She and several others from Logan County established the tourism bureau at a meeting at the Atlanta Public Library more than 20 years ago. […]
Pech regularly is on hand at the Atlanta Public Library and Museum, where she greets visitors, conducts tours of the museum, and welcomes Route 66 travelers to the community. Because of her genuine fondness for the many tourists who stop in Atlanta, Lucille holds the unofficial title of “Route 66 Grandma.”
Pech moved to Atlanta shortly after she was married to Joseph Pech in 1936. She’s been there ever since.