The Kleiber Family Timeline

Category: Monuments/Buildings

Monuments and special Buildings

  • Mackinaw 1958

    The Kleiber family heard wind of a bridge being built in Mackinaw that would connect the lower peninsula with the upper peninsula of Michigan. The bridge would be open to traffic in 1957 and the Kleiber family rented a cottage and went up to Mackinaw in 1958 to take a look see.

    Since then Mackinaw has been a very popular vacation location for Kleibers of all generations. You will find many pictures of the bridge taken by the family but these are the first.

    The Mackinac Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the western hemisphere. The five-mile bridge is the world’s longest suspension bridge between cable anchorages. Fare revenues are now used to operate and maintain the Bridge and repay the State of Michigan for monies advanced to the Authority since the facility opened to traffic in 1957.

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  • Washington DC War Years 1942

    The newly married couple Loretta and Charles took a trip to visit the capitol of the United States, Washington DC. The war was raging and Charles was scheduled to be shipped out to a Pacific destination. The horrors of Pearl Harbor were still fresh in everyone’s mind and the war was already taking its toll on American citizens worrying about their boys coming home from fighting halfway around the world. A visit to Washington DC was a good reminder of what people were fighting about.

    Loretta really enjoyed the cherry blossoms that lined the streets of Washington DC and would work to support the cause along with her sister Louise and Cousin Cil (Rosie the Riveter for some of them), all three having their husbands in service to their country (In addition to Charles, Louise husband Harry and Cil’s husband Francis, truly they were the greatest generation).

    Charles would spend the rest of the war in the Pacific theater and return home safetly to Loretta (and a Detroit Tiger World Series Victory, just as his son would do nearly 40 years later in 1984 – Tigers must be waiting for the next generation of Kleiber to leave the military because these were the last two World Series that they have won and have not won one since).

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