Burial: Fort Calhoun Cemetery, Fort Calhoun, NE

Findagrave Memorial: 18175164

#1-The Pilot Tribune 11 February 1932

Joe Bolln Dies Monday Morning

Merchant in Fort Calhoun Over Twenty-Five Years

Joseph Bolln, Fort Calhoun merchant, passed away at his home Monday morning following a stroke. The deceased was born in Germany in 1871 and when he was about ten years of age he came to Washington County with his parents. He was reared in this county and was married to Louise Guthner of Denver after which the family made their home on a farm southeast of Blair. About twenty-five years age, he moved to Fort Calhoun where he has been engaged in business since that time.

Surviving him are his bereaved wife; seven children, Mrs. John Richter of Arkansas, William of Blair, Mrs. Frank Wolfe and Mrs. Dora Pieper of Calhoun, Carl of Omaha, Mrs. Louis Michels of Florence, and Frank of Los Angeles, California, also his mother, Mrs. Claus Bolln of Blair, a sister, Mrs. Wheatley and four brothers, John, Herman, William and August.

Funeral services are being conducted from the Presbyterian Church in Calhoun t his (Thursday) afternoon at 2:00 o’clock. Burial will be in the Calhoun Cemetery.

#2-11 Feb., 1932 - The Enterprise

JOE BOLLN DIES SUDDENLY

Joe Bolln, well-known citizen of Calhoun, died suddenly Monday morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Wolff. Deceased was born Jan. 5, 1871 in Germany, came to Calhoun in 1884.

He leaves to mourn him his wife and seven children, Mary Richter of Pine Bluffs, Ark; Wm. of Blair; Mrs. Frank Wolff, Mrs. Olga Nichelsen and Mrs. Dora Piper of Calhoun; Carl of Omaha and Frank of Los Angeles, Calif. Besides these, he leaves his mother, Mrs. Claus Bolln of Blair, also four brothers, John, August and Wm. of Blair and Herman of Pender, Nebr. and one sister, Mrs. Emma Wheatley of Blair.

Funeral services are to be held in Calhoun at 2 o’clock this Thursday afternoon, and interment made in the Calhoun cemetery.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Library at Blair Nebraska.~~~