Max Albert Boller (1909-1942)

BOLLER, ISENHART, STEWARD, KIBURZ, MAURER, TERRELL, CHRISTIANSEN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 10/26/2013 at 15:15:22

From Nevada Journal March 9, 1942

Max Boller Dies; Funeral Here Wednesday

Funeral rites for Max A. Boller, 33, native son of Nevada, who died in Des Moines early Sunday morning will be held at Central Presbyterian Church here Wednesday at 2:30, with Rev. Jos. M. Kennedy of that church in charge. Burial will be in the Nevada cemetery.

Mr. Boller, who had started in on his fifth year as athletic coach in the West Waterloo schools, with his wife and little son, "Buddy" was at the home of his sister, Mrs. Grace Steward here for the holiday vacation when on Christmas he suffered a severe hemorrhage from ulcers of the stomach. His condition remained critical for some time. He was later removed to Mary Greeley hospital at Ames for a a short time and from there to his home at Waterloo where he spent a short time in a hospital before going taken to Rochester, Minn., where he submitted to an exploratory operation by Mayo surgeons. No hope for his recovery were given there and he was brought back to his home at Waterloo. On Friday of last week, he was taken to Des Moines and passed away while at the home of his sister Jeannette, wife of Charles Terrell.

Max Albert Boller, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. R. Boller of 135 J avenue, Nevada, was born here March 21, 1909. Of the nine children in the family to grow to manhood or womanhood, he was the first to pass away.

Graduating from the Nevada high school with the class of 1927, he accompanied his former athletic coach, Glen Strowbridge, to Gunnison, Colorado, where he wpent a year and half at the Western Teachers college under Mr. Strowbridge.

From Colorado, he returned to Iowa and spent two years and graduated from the Iowa State Teachers college at Cedar Falls where he took a course in coaching.

His first work was in the schools at Casey, shere he spent two years. From there he went to Avoca where he was coach two years and there rejoined his close friend, Glen Strowbridge, and became assistant athletic coach in the West Waterloo high school, where he had started in his fifth year, when his successful career as a coach was interrupted by his illness and death.

It was while he was a coach at Casey, that he met and married Mae Isenhart of Redfield. They were married in Guthrie Center September 7, 1934, and have one child, Max Albert, Jr.

Besides the wife and little son, he leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. R. Boller, of 135 J avenue, Nevada; sisters, Mrs. Grace Steward of Nevada, and Mrs. Gladys Kiburz of Conway; brothers, Allen Boller of Atlantic, and Jack Boller of Cedar Falls; and sisters, Mrs. Phyllis Forbes of Nevada, Mrs. Lorella Maurer of Ames, Mrs. Jeanette Terrell of Des Moines and Mrs. Betty Christiansen of Nevada. One sister, Loretta, died in childhood.

The body was brought to Nevada from Des Moines early Sunday and is now at the Morfoot Funeral home.