Violet Baumgartner — devoted wife, fiercely overprotective mother and stalwart member of the community — pens her annual Christmas greetings with celebratory flair, but not without due humility: "I ...

MILWAUKEE — A family with some of Milwaukee's deepest manufacturing roots has decided to turn its company over to the people it credits most for its success. The families of Donald Baumgartner and his ...

Happy Birthday to Lloyd (90 on August 30) and Ruth (87 on September 4) Baumgartner! Have a wonderful celebration and cheers to all of the beautiful memories they have shared together over the years.

The Milwaukee Art Museum today announced that Donna and Donald Baumgartner will make an $8 million gift to the Museum's endowment. Their gift is dedicated to support the position of Museum Director, ...

It’s 2017, and Violet Baumgartner is writing her annual Christmas letter in her florid style: “I know that my modest little Christmas correspondences can’t hold a candle to the day-to-day joys and ...

Donna and Donald Baumgartner, longtime donors to the Milwaukee Art Museum, will make an $8 million gift to the museum's endowment. The gift is being made to support the position of a museum director.

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