Services and a celebration of life are set for Dr. Lawrence Eugene “Joe” Maurer, a Boulder medical pioneer who died Jan. 24 at his home at the age of 103.
Maurer was best known as a co-founder, along with nine other physicians, of the Boulder Medical Center in 1949, which stands to this day at its original location at Broadway and Alpine Street and has expanded to three other locations in the county.
Born in Goshen, Ind., in 1914, Maurer attended Goshen College, graduated from the University of Indiana Medical School in 1939 and completed his medical internship in Denver and Kansas City.
He came to Boulder in 1942 to join the practice of Dr. H. H. Heuston at a salary of $100 a month.
According to Boulder historian Silvia Pettem, Maurer arrived in a community of about 12,000 people that was not too far removed from the days of “horse and buggy” doctors who traveled the county delivering babies, treating infectious diseases and setting broken bones.
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