WW II vet holds his ground, fights eviction

WW II vet holds his ground, fights eviction


Pushing 90, Chicago veteran fights to stay in apartment
By Ron Grossman, Tribune reporter
May 14, 2011

Five shooting wars later, Lt. Col. Curtis Welborn Jr., U.S. Army, ret., remains doggedly determined to hold the high ground.

In this instance, it's a tiny apartment in a Near North high-rise, where the 89-year-old and his wife have lived for a decade. Management wants them out by May 31.

Wellborn says he's been told it's because of bedbugs. But he sees the affair as a matter of honor — a sense shaped by military service that began in a World War II bomber. Small in stature but martial in bearing, he answers the phone with a crisp flourish: "Col. Welborn here."

He doesn't deny the bedbugs, but says they came from next door — retreating to regroup, as it were, when that apartment was fumigated. Besides, he says, he was the one who brought the matter to light by calling the city's help line, about a year ago. He thought it a top-secret communication. Evidently the building inspector didn't.

"311 betrayed me," Welborn said. "We were threatened with eviction."

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Editor's note:  Your ProbateShark fears for the brave Col. Welborn and his wife from the publicity raised by this article. The vultures in the Probate Court of Cook County would see these wonderful people as pieces of meat to devour.  These Welborns did their part to saved democracy and humanity from parasites  like the inhabitants of the Probate Court of Cook County. "Somewhere, in one of Shakespeare's plays," the Colonel said, "a character says something like, 'For I served the state in some purpose.'"  Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com