Marie (Potter) Boelter (1945)

BOELTER, DON CARLOS, GOWIN, NORMAN, POTTER, QUICK

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 8/14/2006 at 09:50:35

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, February 21, 1945

Mrs. William G. Boelter, the former Marie Potter of Patterson and Winterset, died unexpectedly at her home in Syracuse, N. Y., last Friday, following a cerebral hemorrhage. She was 43 years of age.

She was found unconscious late last Thursday by her husband, upon his return from his regular sports broadcast over a Syracuse radio station.

Mrs. Boelter was the daughter of George and Hattie Gowin Potter, and was born at Patterson Aug. 8, 1901. Her father was a merchant in Patterson, and later in Winterset. She attended the Winterset high school, from which she graduated with the class of 1919.

As a young woman she worked in Des Moines for the Daily Capitol. In 1926 she was married to William Boelter, well known Drake university football star and athletic coach. They lived in Des Moines until 1931, in Iowa City from 1931 to 1938, and since then in Syracuse.

Mrs. Boelter had been prominent in Red Cross work in Syracuse since the start of the war. She served as secretary of the public information department of the Syracuse and Onondaga county Red Cross chapter, and had just been appointed acting director of that department.

Mrs. Boelter is survived by her husband; two brothers, E. C. Potter of West Des Moines and John Potter of Patterson; and three sisters, Mrs. E. H. Norman of Mitchellville, Mrs. F. H. Don Carlos of Perry, and Mrs. Everett H. Quick of Patterson.

Funeral services were held Monday from Dunn's Funeral home in Des Moines, and burial was made in the Winterset cemetery.

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