Today, Marty Boller lives on the southeast side of Iowa City with his wife Sandy. While Marty was born in Henry County (Wayland) and grew up in Mt. Pleasant, the Boller family moved to Iowa City in 1966 when his dad – George Boller – took a printing job with The Daily Iowan. A graduate of City High School (1969) and the University of Iowa School of Music (1973), Marty was a band director in the Chicago area when he met his wife-to-be, Sandy Unrue – an Indiana native and graduate of Northwestern University. Living in Evanston, IL – where all four of their children were born – the Bollers moved back to Iowa in 1987. Over the last 30+ years, Marty & Sandy have planted two Vineyard Christian Fellowship churches – one in Iowa City and one in Cedar Rapids, pastoring there until 2020, when they retired and moved back home to Iowa City. That’s when Marty started posting history stories about Iowa City and Johnson County on his family heritage website. His Boller family roots in Johnson County stretch way back to 1853 when his gg grandparents moved from Ohio to Washington Township of Johnson County. Today, he has over 750 stories on his website – with subjects ranging from Poweshiek – the Meskwaki Chief who greeted the first white settlers to Johnson County, to Governor Samuel Kirkwood – our Civil War governor who was one of the first supporters of the abolitionist movement that ushered in the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, to Mayor Emma J. Harvat, America’s first woman mayor, elected to office in Iowa City in 1922 to Caitlin Clark, Iowa’s most influential, nationally-recognized athlete since Nile Kinnick. Check us out at www.ouriowaheritage.com
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