Max Doering

I think of Max often! I remember doing repairs in parking lots, on top of buildings and in his driveway! I never had a bad experience with him! He was a good encourager. I miss him.

GHHS 1971 yearbook photo

When our parents were in search of a babysitter who could take on four unmanageable adolescents and provide a few hours of dinner-date peace on a Friday evening, Marie Doering came into our lives. We children believed this new sitter wouldn´t last any longer than the previous 5 or 6 candidates. It usually took one evening for the new chaperon to decide that the hair-raising chaos wasn´t worth the money. But how wrong we were about Marie. Her arrival signaled the start of a life long...

Max and the Doering family were really pivotal in my early life. Max, Alan, and Marie were the first babysitters that ever came back for a second time. It was always magical when they took us on an adventure. In high school, Max took myself and an exchange student up for a ride in his hot air balloon. During the ride north of Grand Rapids, Max skimmed the gondola over the Grand River. Then after gaining some altitude, he decided to do a touch and go on US 131. All the traffic stopped. They...

Max, I´m gonna miss you and all the funny stories from your weekend best pals Don, Donna and my best pal Philip. We had such great times together at Don´s and Donna´s! Especially when you jumped into the water to save me on the many times I fell in the lake and everyone else was yelling at me to "Swim! swim!", including Phil I may add, and You heroically jumped in and got me back to the boat, dock, etc!! I will always have fond memories of you and you will truly be missed by all of us. I...

He was my favorite. I repaired the inflatables for him for over 25 years. We had a good friendship and he was a very generous.