I-94 Signage Installed for Milwaukee Soldiers Home
We often hear from people who have lived in the area their entire lives, but never knew about the Milwaukee Soldiers Home. This week, we made great progress in raising awareness of one of Milwaukee’s own National Historic Landmarks. The fundraising campaign was part of a broader effort led by MPA, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and other local preservation and veteran groups, to raise awareness of the Soldiers Home Historic District and promote the rehabilitat
Siblings Return to Soldiers Home
Over the years, the Tubesing siblings have celebrated major birthdays together. They’ve taken trips and been on adventures, but when it was Helen’s turn to decide how to celebrate her 70th birthday, she wanted to return to a place where she grew up – the Milwaukee Soldiers Home. Helen (Tubesing) Forster, Phyllis Tubesing, Lois (Tubesing) Jaeckel and Don Tubesing were raised in a military family. Their father, Karl A. Tubesing went into the Army-Air Corps in 1939 and served th
