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The
RIER June 2021
S cenic boat rides and fishing have started. Each building take
turns going for rides out on the beautiful Rainbow Lake Monday
- Friday. Members are so happy to be out on the lake and they look
forward to seeing what kind of fish they will catch.
WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING Home News
Secretary Kolar
Wisconsin Department Wisconsin Department of
of Veterans Affairs Veterans Affairs
Secretary
Mary M. Kolar
Wisconsin Veterans
Home at King Ihope you are enjoying the beautiful weather here with summer in
Wisconsin. This year seems to be flying by quickly, so I want to update
you on a few items that will be happening soon at King.
Commandant
Tammy Servatius Last September, WDVA announced that we will be transitioning to a
smoke-free campus at King, beginning June 30, 2025. It is my hope that
King’s members can be successful in moving toward a healthier, smoke-
Ainsworth Hall
free lifestyle if we all – family, friends, staff, and fellow members – pitch in
Executive Director
together to encourage and help each other.
Douglas Wamack
As we move toward June 30, 2025, we have begun taking steps to ensure
MacArthur Hall that we are all prepared for this important milestone. One reason I mention
Executive Director this is because our state-of-the-art John R. Moses Hall is expected to open
Greg Reichenbach later this year. It is a smoke-free facility, and as such, only members who
have not smoked for at least six months will be admitted to this new
Olson Hall building. If you would like to move into this new facility, and are a smoker,
Executive Director I encourage you to take steps now to quit smoking; our smoking cessation
Rhonda Kozik program is available to help.
We are currently in the planning stages for the grand opening of the new
John R. Moses Hall. This state-of-the-art facility will house 192 members.
LIKE US The remaining members on campus will reside in either MacArthur Hall,
ON which will also be smoke-free, or Ainsworth Hall, which will accommodate
smokers until the 2025 all-campus deadline. If you are curious about the
“Wisconsin Department
progress we are making at Moses Hall, we posted some photos on Facebook
of Veterans Affairs”
recently. If you have Facebook, visit our page (search @WisVets) and take
a look. It is truly a beautiful facility and we are excited to be moving into it
On this page, you’ll see in the not-too-distant future.
photos and posts of
some great things that Finally, thank you to those of you who joined me and veterans and families
happen here at King. across our state on Memorial Day last month for our virtual celebration, by
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Commandant’s
Home News Column WISCONSIN VETERANS
WISCONSIN VETERANSHOME
HOMEAT
ATKING
KING
CENTER FOR TOBACCO PRODUCTS
How a Cigarette Is Engineered
The design and content of cigarettes continue to make them attractive, addictive, and deadly.1 Every day, more than 1,300 people in
the United States die because of cigarette use.2
Filter 3,4,5 Tipping paper 6
• Typically made from bundles • Wraps around the filter, connecting
of thin, hair-like fibers. it to the rest of the cigarette.
• Designed to trap smoke, but
only stops a small portion of the • Ventilation holes, if unblocked,
smoke from being inhaled. dilute inhaled smoke with air.
• The filter (and ventilation holes) in • Manufacturers have chosen to place
most cigarettes may lead smokers to the ventilation holes where they are.
inhale more deeply, pulling dangerous The holes are largely ineffective.
chemicals farther into their lungs. Because of their location, most
smokers unknowingly block them
with their fingers or lips.
Cigarette paper 3
Additives10,11,12
• Holds the tobacco filler.
• Manufacturers add chemicals to the paper Manufacturers can add hundreds of ingredients
to control how fast the cigarette burns. to a cigarette to make smoking more appealing
and to mask the harshness of smoke.
• Smokers inhale everything that is burned—
the tobacco filler, the paper… everything.
Certain additives, like sugars, can form
cancer-causing chemicals when they
are burned.
Sugar and flavor* additives can change
Tobacco filler 7,8,9 the taste of smoke and make it easier to
inhale, but no less harmful.
• Made up of chopped tobacco
leaves, stems, reprocessed Ammonia and other chemicals added to
pieces, and scraps. tobacco may increase the absorption of
• Dangerous chemicals can form in and nicotine, which is addictive.
be deposited on tobacco during the Some additives are bronchodilators that
processing of the tobacco leaves. could increase the amount of dangerous
• Other dangerous chemicals are created chemicals absorbed by the lungs.
when the tobacco filler is burned.
*In 2009, The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act banned characterizing
flavors in cigarettes, except for tobacco and menthol flavors.
FDA’S REGULATORY AUTHORITY: The FDA Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) has broad authority, via the Tobacco
Control Act, to regulate the manufacturing, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products. To protect public health,
CTP has the authority to regulate what ingredients tobacco manufacturers can put into their products.
(1) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A Report of the Surgeon General: How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease (Fact Sheet). Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health; 2010. (2) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health; 2014. (3) Taylor MJ. The role of filter technology in reduced yield cigarettes. Filtrona. World Tobacco Exhibition Kunming. (4) Kiefer
JE, Mumpower RC II. Parameters That Affect the Pressure Drop and Efficiency of Cellulose Acetate Cigarette Filters. Research Laboratories, Tennessee Eastman Company; 2004; Bates number: 81052204/2269. (5) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Let’s Make the
Next Generation Tobacco-Free: Your Guide to the 50th Anniversary Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health (Consumer Booklet). Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health; 2014. (6) Browne CL. The Design of Cigarettes. 3rd ed. Charlotte, NC: C Filter Products Division, Hoechst Celanese Corporation; 1990. (7) Spears AW. Effect of manufacturing variables on cigarette smoke composition.
CORESTA Bulletin d’Information. 1974;6:65-78. (8) Geiss O, Kotzias D. Tobacco, Cigarettes, and Cigarette Smoke: An Overview. European Commission, Directorate-General, Joint Research Centre; 2007. (9) Baker R. A review of pyrolysis studies to unravel reaction steps in burning
tobacco. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis. 1987;11:555-573. (10) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease: The Biology and Behavioral Basis for Smoking-Attributable Disease: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health; 2010. (11) Rabinoff M, Caskey N, Rissling A, Park, C. Pharmacological and chemical effects of
cigarette additives. American Journal of Public Health. 2007;97(11):1981-1991. (12) Talhout R, Opperhuizen A, Amsterdam J. Sugars as tobacco ingredient: Effects on mainstream smoke composition. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 2006;44(11):1789-1798.
Last Updated October 2016
CTP-62-P
The Wisconsin Veterans
Home at King will be SMOKE www.fda.gov/tobacco @FDATobacco facebook.com/fda
FREE June 30, 2025
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WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING Home News
We would like to welcome the following new members
to the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King:
Due to the Federal HIPAA Privacy Act only those members who have releases on file are listed.
Donald L. Pelger, a Vietnam War Marine Jeffrey M. Stolz, a Operation Desert
Corps Veteran joined us on May 13, 2021 Shield/Desert Storm Army Veteran joined
from Friendship. He is living at OH. us on May 21, 2021 from Neenah. He is
living at MH.
Adolph O. Kraus, a Korean War Army
Veteran joined us on May 14, 2021 from Betty L. Wright, a WW II Navy Veteran’s
Marshfield. He is living at AH. spouse joined us on May 28, 2021 from
Mascoutah, Illinois. She is living at OH.
Marian S. Kraus, a Korean War Army
Veteran’s spouse joined us on May 14,
2021 from Marshfield. She is living at AH.
Estelle S. Zaleski, a Korean War Marine
Corps Veteran’s spouse joined us on May
17, 2021 from Stratford. She is living at
AH.
James Kubisiak, a Korean War Army
Veteran joined us on May 17, 2021 from
Amherst. He is living at OH.
Billy D. Fergot, a Korean War Marine
Corps Veteran joined us on May 18, 2021
from Edgar. He is living at AH.
Theodore W. Cook, a WW II Army Veteran
joined us on May 18, 2021 from Waupaca.
He is living at OH.
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Donations WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING
On behalf of the members, we
sincerely Thank Everyone
for
their generous donations.
Monetary
VFW Dept. of Wisconsin Caroline Anderson AMVETS Aux. 1051
Monona, WI Waupaca, WI Deb Suchon
Stevens Point, WI
Sharon Jardas Connie Morgan
Waterford, WI King, WI Annie Checotah - WIlliam
Jacobsen Estate
Richard & Lynn Buschmann Patricia & David Forer Scandanavia, WI
Milwaukee, WI La Crosse, WI
In Memory of Phyllis Buschmann In Memory of Deloss Besch Brenda Majewksi
Greendale, WI
Paul & Barbara Claffey Joan Fox
Springstown, TX Waupaca, WI Carol Zurawski
In Memory of John Baker Claffey Plover, WI
VFW Auxiliary - Karen Johnson
Harry Hohnberger Kaukauna, WI Carolyn Swenson
King, WI Stevens Point, WI
James Steinberg Family
Charlene Byrne In Memory of James Steinberg AMVETS & Aux. 7
Pewaukee, WI Cathy Tratz
William Laux Jr. Memorial Trust Oshkosh, WI
Brad & Laura Stuczynski - c/o Stephany Lewis
Baraboo, WI Newark, DE Chad Schmidt
In Memory John Zouski Jim Sudlac
Gary Schwersinske Winneconne, WI
VFW Post 8491 King, WI
Phillips, WI VFW 3153
Karin WIlson Dan DeTroye
VFW Post 5716 - Stars and Neshkoro, WI Chilton, WI
Stripes Honor Flight In Memory of Anton Chappa
Non-Monetary
Menomonee Falls, WI Dave Firkus
Custer, WI
Cynthia Bathurst Alice Younger
Chicago, IL Stratford, WI David Huberty
In Memory of Ernie Boggs Waupaca, WI
American Legion Aux. 343
Janice Fountain Plainfield, WI Dawn Hoeye
Green Bay, WI Marshfield, WI
In Memory of Joan Grawvunder Girl Scout Troop 6017
Ammie Munnik continued from page 6
John & Julie Hellweg Wis. Rapids, WI
Waupaca, WI
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WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING Home News
Donations continued from page 6
Dennis G. Glunn Joan Klawitter MCL
Montello, WI Schoefield, WI Mike Bird /Gabriel Bird
Oshkosh, WI
Diane Butz John L. Adams In memory of Phillip Walters
Fond Du Lac, WI Clarksville, TN
Nancy Burns
Dietzen Family Judy Trudeau Green Lake, WI
Kaukauna, WI Wild Rose, WI
In memory of Joseph Dietzen & Newman Catholic School - St.
John Plutz Valley View Elementary School Anne - Mrs. Fruend &
Julie Patzke Ms. Merkes
Donald J. Melvin Wausau, WI
Abbotsford, WI Karen Fusek
Gresham, WI Norbert Sankey
Edward Ostrowski Plover, WI
Tomahawk, WI Outagamie County HCE & In memory of Bridget Sankey
Giving Bee’s
ELKS 641 Linda Biese Pat Boyle
Hans Walters Black Creek, WI Appleton, WI
Stevens Point, WI
Linda Schober Quilters from St. Paul Christian
Frank Bentivegna Waupaca, WI Church
Waupaca, WI Elkhart Lake, WI
Loving Stitches - St. Mark’s
Georgiann Jelinski Green Bay, WI Robin Gunnink
Shawano, WI Brandon, WI
In memory of Steve Jelinski M.W. Bergen In memory of Darrel Gunnink
Appleton, WI
Girl Scouts of Northwestern Shari Wheir
Great Lakes - Camerron Wettern Marie Jones Wis. Rapids, WI
Appleton, WI Waupaca, WI
DAR
Helen Sharp Mark Ponczoch Sharon Goff
Neshkoro, WI Stevens Point, WI Madison, WI
Jason Sopa Mary Ann Zellner Sharon Roxanne Wallis
Amherst, WI Wild Rose, WI
In memory of Joseph C. Zellner II St. Lukes Lutheran Church -
WI Woman’s Relief Corps - DAR Card Ministry
Jill Vestuto Mary Tenant Wis. Rapids, WI
Richland Center, WI Waupaca, WI
St. Paul Bonduel Quilters
Joan Buchholtz Mike Berard Carla Parsons
Fremont, WI King, WI Bonduel, WI
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In Memory of WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING
In Memory of
“Our country is in mourning, a veteran died today”
William A Jaecks Larry J Zastrow
David H Gray Eugene O Uhlers
Donations continued from page 6
Steve & Heather Malsavage Vesper American Legion Aux. Wisconsin Daughters of the
Kimberly, WI Unit 520 American Revolution - Jean
Vesper, WI Nicolet Chapter
Sturm Foods Green Lake, WI
Barb Sauer VFW 1318 Aux.
Manawa, WI Adojo Foerster
Madison, WI
VFW 3153 Please call ahead at
Twiggy & Karen Johnson VFWA 2653 715.256.5020 with large
Kaukauna, WI Connie Powell or unique donations.
Antigo, WI
Secretary’s Column continued from page 2
visiting our Memorial Day website or by viewing our Wreath Laying and Remembrance Ceremony
on Facebook Live. If you saw our Memorial Day website, you may have noticed that WDVA, including
the Wisconsin Veterans Museum, is making it our mission to honor the memory of every veteran
who served this country by collecting photographs of each Wisconsin veteran. These photographs
will be housed at the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and shared, to remind others of the tremendous
cost paid by some and to honor our state’s veterans’ legacies for all time. I invite you to participate.
Please visit https://wisvetsmuseum.com/veterans-profile-submission/ for more on how you can
help by submitting a photo of yourself, and your veteran friends and relatives.
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WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING Home News
Getting
to know our Team Meet Kay Grosskopf
H i! My name is Kay from Larsen (Winchester) about 35 miles
east of King. I became an active volunteer at King in April
2014 after leaving my job and have accumulated over 755
volunteer hours. I am married to my husband Keith (Vietnam
Marine combat veteran) for 49 years. We have two daughters,
Crystal and Corey, and four grandchildren, Beau, Carter, Blake
and Claire.
My employed years were spent as an Estimator at a printing
company for 32 years after 10 years working in the plant. The
entire time I was in one building but four company names; Mid
America Tag & Label, Mid America Division - Menasha Corp,
Promo Edge, and WS Packaging.
I have many hobbies I enjoy; golf, gardening and canning,
cross country skiing, working in the woods (winter), snowmobiling, home improvements (home
& elsewhere) besides volunteering at school and committees at church. I am the treasurer for ALA
Unit 391 Fremont after serving as President for 4 years. I visit members at Ainsworth Hall. Pre-
pandemic I would help on shopping trips and assisting members to events on campus. I would
also visit members of our American Legion Auxiliary in other halls.
What brought me to volunteer at King was my husband, Keith. He belongs to the American Legion
Post 391, which hosted bingo. I filled in for him 1-2 times and thought when I retire it would be
fun to volunteer and give back to our veterans. My father was a World War II Army Air Corp veteran
assigned to Search and Rescue with sled dogs. (He and we used to race sled dogs). I also had many
uncles, a brother in-law and a niece and nephew that served. I am so very proud of all of them.
I can’t express the fulfillment one receives giving back to those who gave so much. I’m glad
volunteers are making their way back to campus. I miss “my guys” (and gals) when I am not able to
see them. The members are so we are appreciative when we are there.
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Chaplain’s Column WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING
Ben Schroeder
Protestant Chaplain
Aircraft Carrier Anchors and Romans 8:38-39
R ecently I was reading some trivia describing the anchors used on many US Navy aircraft carriers.
Here are some of the things I learned: How many anchors are there for an aircraft carrier? 2. How
many pounds does each anchor weigh? Approximately 60,000 pounds. That equals 30 tons. To make
the numerical weight easier to visualize and grasp…How many full-grown elephants would that be
equal to? About 6 at 10,000 pounds per elephant. An average-size elephant weighs about 10,000
pounds. Imagine 6 elephants connected on a chain on both the bow and stern of the carrier. If you
love elephants like me, imagine them with scuba gear on.
What depth will the chain of links holding the anchor drop to on a carrier? About 1000 feet. That’s
almost 3 football fields. How much does each link on the chain weigh? About 365 pounds. Final
question: If you add up the weight of both anchors and all links on both chains how much weight
would that be? About 735,000 pounds. That equals 368 tons. Or using an image referred to earlier,
that is about 74 adult-size elephants…with scuba gear.
What is my main point in bringing up this trivia? A ship that uses that kind of anchor-weight is well-
secured! The incredible weight of those anchors will keep the carrier in a pier from drifting during
stormy weather even a hurricane. Even so, I am sure that a devastating storm or missile attack could
separate the ship from the anchors.
Is there an anchor that keeps us secured to God through this life and into eternity? An anchor that will
hold us to God through every challenge, crisis, personal failure, or sin? An anchor that is indestructible?
Yes! Romans 8:38-39 tells believers that Christ is our anchor that connects us to God and His love. And
no one or nothing can separate us from God’s love for us in Christ. No personal failure or sin! No
challenge or crisis!
“For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor
the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to
separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:38-39/NIV)
The Good News that you can anchor your life to and fully trust is this: God loves you and has secured
you to Himself, His family, and His kingdom through our Savior, Jesus the Christ! Jesus lived a perfect
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WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING Birthdays
June Birthdays
2 James W Otterson AH 13 Roger E Knapp OH 24 LaVerne H Langer AH
4 Otto H Tiedemann AH 14 Melfred L Wethal OH 28 Thomas D Krueger OH
James F Holeman AH David R Christie OH 29 Kenneth L O’Malley MH
5 June M Stecker AH 15 Edna M McPherson OH 30 David L Winslow OH
George L Conner OH William C
7 Philip E Vaughn OH Kaczmaryn OH
William G Keene MH 18 James T Seibert OH
8 Kurtis K Kading AH 21 Daniel E Bailey AH
9 David A Johnson OH 22 Marilyn A
11 Larry D Stiebs OH Feldmann OH
23 William M Godfrey OH
July Birthdays
3 Stephen I Chantelois AH 17 Gerald H Polster MH 21 Beverly A Bloedorn OH
David R Koenig AH Michael E Starrine OH 22 Joyce A Kielman AH
4 Gregory A Senski OH 19 Mark L Garrison AH Richard W Hilliard MH
Roy C Gray AH Thomas J Smith MH 24 Richard M Schamens OH
6 James A Lunde OH 20 Edwin P Gabor AH 25 Ronald J Wucki OH
7 Barbara L Hoerman OH Alan B Altenbach AH 27 James P Bautch AH
8 Robert J Mertens OH Raymond A Cora M Schwersinske AH
9 Kermit H Peterson MH Reynolds MH 30 Betty A Martin AH
13 Richard R Smits OH Nicholas J Joseph R Koller OH
14 Thomas E Muller AH Echeverria AH 31 Ernest J Winker OH
James A Teal MH 20 Beverly A Gerner OH
16 Robert L Bascue MH Gregory L Campbell AH
10Home News WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING
Aircraft Carrier Anchors and Romans 8:38-39 continued from page 9
life in your place obeying all of God’s righteous laws. And Jesus died on the Cross to take away all your
sins which separated you from God. He reconciled and connected you to God by His perfect blood-
sacrifice. All your sins are forgiven…past, present, and future. Jesus rose in victory from the dead
assuring you that God accepted His sacrifice for your sins, that your relationship with God is eternally
secured, and that you too will rise again from the dead on the Last Day.
What amazingly wonderful news that is for us as believers in Jesus! There is no sin or storm that can
bash against our lives and separate us from God and His love. There is no assault from the Enemy that
can separate us from God and His love. We are permanently attached to God through our anchor,
Jesus Christ!
As I have gotten to know many of you since I started working at King last October, I have learned
about the tremendous blessings you have received from God and your joys. And I have also learned
of various trials many have experienced or are experiencing: Struggles with physical pain, diseases,
and sicknesses including cv19. Struggles with depression, sadness, and loneliness. Struggles in
relationships with family and friends. Struggles with temptations and guilt over past sins. And the list
goes on. I’m humbled and honored that you entrust your personal stories and experiences to me in
confidence. And I can relate to what you share with me from my own trials and failures.
Life in this fallen world is often exceedingly difficult. Yet none of these things listed above or anything
else in all creation can separate us from God and His love for us through our Savior Christ…not even
death. We will get through every storm and struggle with Jesus’ help. And as we look back in our lives
we can see evidence of God’s hand delivering us from or through every past challenge or crisis. One
day Jesus will even deliver us through death to be with Him in glory. And on the Last Day we will be
raised up from the dead to live eternally with God and all our loved ones in Christ in the perfect, new
heaven and earth. Rejoice in these beautiful promises and truths!
In the first century, the anchor, not the Cross, was the most widely recognized Christian symbol
for followers of Christ. There was wide-spread and intense persecution of Christians in the Roman
Empire. Many Christ-followers were executed for their faith in Jesus. In the tombs and burial places of
many Christians during that period are pictures and images of anchors. Christians of that time found
powerful comfort in this Christian symbol of safety. It reminded them that Christ was their safe and
sure anchor, and nothing could separate them from God’s love for them in Christ not even persecution
or execution by the Roman state.
Fortunately, American Christians are not experiencing overt persecution like the first century Christians
in Rome. I’m hoping that will never happen. Nonetheless, we do get assailed by the Enemy of our souls,
the fallen world, and our sinful flesh. And we can at times question if God really loves us. At those
moments, we can remind ourselves and each other that Jesus, the Son of God, is our anchor! And He
has secured our relationship with God, our Father by His life, and death on Calvary, and resurrection.
And nothing can separate us from God and His love for us because of Jesus!
Next time you see an aircraft carrier think of how many elephants it takes to equal the weight of an
anchor on a carrier. No, just kidding. Who really cares about that trivia? Think of this amazing and
comforting truth: Christ is your anchor no matter what you face in life. That is not trivia or trivial. Christ
is and always will be our anchor, and nothing can separate us from God’s love for us in Christ Jesus our
Lord!
11WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING Home News
Melda Ullman
WVH-King Member
My Time
M arch 1937 was a very important date for me. Why that’s when I was born. While growing up I
became very shy. I would rather have my nose in a book then talk to people. Funny thing is I
also didn’t like school. I walked to school which was about two miles away from our house. In grade
school we were in a room with a pot belly stove in the middle of the class room. I only attended my
first year of high school. After that I went to worked baby-sitting for a lady for about six months.
In the early 1960s I worked in a store in Antigo. There, I met the man I would marry in the fall of that
same year. After we got married, we moved to a little town called Deerbrook, WI. I raised our family.
We had one daughter and three sons. My second son is married. I have two grandsons, two great
grandsons, and two great granddaughters. My youngest son is getting married soon and I’m sure
he will be adding to our family tree.
Around 1988, my husband and I went to work up north as caretakers for a 276 acres tree farm. I was
the cook and housekeeper. The owners were millionaires. His first wife died and later remarried a
former movie star. In 1996 the owner sold the place. We worked for the new owners for a year and
retired in 1999. But retirement was short lived because I went back to work cleaning cabins for a
resort for eight years and then retired.
My husband got very sick in 2014 and I was his caregiver until 2017. We decided to move to the
Wisconsin Veterans Home at King and in 2018 I became a widow. I go about these days talking
and making friends. I have met my favorite friends and enjoy spending time with them. God bless.
Your favorite friend,
Melda Ann
12Ainsworth Hall WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING
Summer Fun! Members in Ainsworth Hall have been enjoying playing bingo, relaxing outside,
dressing up to celebrate National Nursing Week and enjoying the weather.
13WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING Home News
Library
The Library has added several books to its permanent collection.
The following are some of those books.
Robert B. Parker’s Revelation by Robert Knott As Rye’s plane nears the isolated landing strip,
Territorial marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch more trouble than inclement weather awaits him.
figured things had finally settled down in Appaloosa He is greeted first by a sabotage attempt that causes
when Boston Bill Black’s murder charge was dropped. him to crash land, and then by Dr. Brynn O’Neal, who
But all that changed when Augustus Noble Driggs claims she was sent for the box in Dr. Lambert’s stead.
was transferred to a stateside penitentiary just across Despite Rye’s “no-involvement” policy when it comes
the border from Mexico. Square-jawed, handsome, other people’s problems, he finds himself irresistibly
and built like a muscled thoroughbred stallion, Driggs drawn to the intrigue surrounding his cargo...and to
manages to intimidate everyone inside the prison the mysterious and attractive Brynn O’Neal.
walls, including the upstart young warden. Soon Rye and Brynn are in a treacherous 48-hour
In a haunting twist of fate, Driggs and a pack of race to deliver the box before time runs out. With the
cold-blooded convicts are suddenly on the loose— hours slipping by and everyone from law enforcement
and it’s up to any and all territorial lawmen, including officials to hired thugs hot on their heels, the two
Cole and Hitch, to capture the fugitives and rescue the must protect their valuable cargo from those who
woman kidnapped during their escape. But nothing is would kill for it--that is, if they can trust each other.
ever quite what it seems with the ever-elusive Driggs.
Finally free, he’s quickly on his own furious hunt for House Witness by Mike Lawson
a hidden cache of gold and jewels--and for the men Minority Leader of the House and DeMarco’s
who betrayed him and left him for dead. long-time employer John Mahoney has kept more
With an unlikely and unconventional Yankee than one secret from his wife over the years, but
detective by their side, Cole and Hitch set off on a none so explosive as this: He has a son, and that
massive manhunt. As horses’ hooves thunder and son has just been shot dead in a bar in Manhattan.
guns echo deadening reports, Driggs discovers Mahoney immediately dispatches DeMarco to New
one of the lawmen on his trail is none other than a York to assist prosecutor Justine Porter, but with five
fellow West Point graduate he’d just as soon see bystanders willing to testify against the killer--rich-
dead. Ruthless and willing to leave a bloody path of boy Toby Rosenthal--the case seems like a slam-dunk.
destruction in his wake, Driggs seeks vengeance at That is, until Porter begins to suspect that someone is
any cost. interfering with those witnesses, and that this may be
connected to a pattern of cases across the country. Is
Tailspin by Sandra Brown there someone who is getting witnesses out of the
Rye Mallett, a fearless “freight dog” pilot charged way when the fate of a wealthy defendant is on the
with flying cargo to far-flung locations, is often rough- line?
spoken, usually unshaven, and he never gets the With the help of Porter’s intern, as outrageously
regulation eight hours of shut-eye before a flight; but smart as she is young, DeMarco becomes determined
he does have a rock-solid reputation: he will fly in the to follow that question through to its violent
foulest weather, day or night, and deliver the goods resolution in what turns out to be this series’ most
safely to their destination. So, when Rye is asked to fly unexpected plot yet.
into a completely fogbound Northern Georgia town
and deliver a mysterious black box to a Dr. Lambert,
he doesn’t ask why--he just ups his price.
14Movies Playing WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING
MOVIES SHOWN ON MEMBER CHANNEL 4.1
PLAYING Movies scheduled for June are:
Tuesday, June 1 Monday, June 14 Thursday, June 24
John Wick Stripes Singin’ in the Rain
Rated R Rated R Rated G
1 Hr. 41 Min. 1 Hr. 46 Min. 1 Hr. 43 Min.
Wednesday, June 2 Tuesday, June 15 Monday, June 28
National Lampoon’s Animal MASH Oddball
House Rated R Rated PG
Rated R 1 Hr. 56 Min. 1 Hr. 35 Min
1 Hr. 49 Min.
Wednesday, June 16 Tuesday, June 29
Thursday, June 3 NO MOVIE The Searchers
Something Wild BREWER GAME Rated PG
Rated R GO CREW 1 Hr. 59 Min.
1 Hr. 54 Min.
Thursday, June 17 Wednesday, June 30
Monday, June 7 Private Benjamin NO MOVIE
Operation Dumbo Drop Rated R BREWER GAME
Rated PG 1 Hr. 49 Min. GO CREW
1 Hr. 47 Min.
Monday, June 21
Tuesday, June 8 Father’s Day
Pay it Forward Rated PG-13
Rated PG-13 1 Hr. 38 Min.
2 Hr. 03 Min.
Tuesday, June 22
Wednesday, June 9 Bringing Up Baby
Jailhouse Rock Rated G
Rated PG 1 Hr. 42 Min.
1 Hr. 36 Min.
Wednesday, June 23
Thursday, June 10 NO MOVIE
NO MOVIE BREWER GAME
BREWER GAME GO CREW
GO CREW
15WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING Home News
A Farmer’s Grace Before Breakfast
Submitted by: WVH-King member, Father Jerome Taddy
A pastor attended a men’s breakfast in the middle of a rural farming
area of the country. The group had asked an older farmer, decked out
in bib overalls, to say grace for the morning breakfast:
“Lord, I hate buttermilk,” the farmer began. The visiting pastor
opned one eye to glance at the farmer and wonder where this was
going.
The farmer loudly proclaimed, “Lord, I hate lard.” Now the pastor
Father Taddy would was growing concerned.
like to make people
Without missing a beat, the farmer continued, “And Lord, you know
smile by sharing some
I don’t much care for raw white flour.”
of his favorite poems
and stories. The pastor once again opened an eye to glance around the room and
saw that he wasn’t the only one to feel uncomfortable.
Then the farmer added, “But Lord, when you mix them all together
and bake them, I do love warm fresh biscuits.
So Lord, when things come up that we don’t like, when life gets
Bobhard, when
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to just relax and wait until You are done mixing. It will probably
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be even better than biscuits. Amen.”
Members on Legends on the Lake celebrated Cinco de Mayo
Riddle by having special treats and getting their pictures taken with
props!
Where does a rabbit
go for a shampoo?
Previous riddle:
I help you from head
to your toe. The more
I work, the smaller I
grow. What am I?
Answer: A bar of soap.
16MacArthur Hall WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING
Gardening Has Begun! The members were Ladies Celebration. Member Lisa Liepert
very excited to start planting flowers and donated corsages to the ladies in MacArthur
veggies. Hall. The ladies also enjoyed special treats
and activities.
Lisa Liepert
Patio Decor. Thank you Michael for donating
patio decorations for MacArthur Hall.
17WISCONSIN VETERANS HOME AT KING Olson Hall
Summer is here! Members at Olson Hall have been enjoying the new babies on camp. We have
spotted a set of twin cranes and a new fawn! We have also been enjoying time gardening. Along
with that we got to spend time enjoying cupcakes in memory of a past member and friend. Lastly
who doesn’t enjoy our dress up days? We loved participating and watching our activities staff go
all out!!!
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