Lloyd Max Voelzke died on November 27, 2025 in hospice care and in the care of his daughter, in Las Vegas, NV after returning from Krabi, Thailand where he had lived over the past twenty years. Max is survived by his daughter, Jesika Doty, grandson Liam Doty, sister, Mickie Alberding (Deborah), and good friend Havard Bauer who has been like a sister. Max was preceded in death by both of his parents, Max Voelzke and Marion Day Voelzke and his son-in-law Douglas Doty and his friend of 45 years, Bill White, whom he considered a brother. Max was born in Coffeyville, KS on April 12, 1947 to Max C. Voelzke, a decorated US Navy war veteran and Marion Ruth Day. Max was reared in Parsons, KS and moved to and finished high school in the little town of Warsaw, MO. Max served in the Navy for 3 years, half of that in Vietnam on board the USS Jennings County, where he met his life-long friend Bill White. He was a 3rd Class Gunners Mate. After separation from the Navy, he continued his education at St. John's College in Winfield, KS, and Concordia Teachers College in Seward, NE, where he graduated with a BS in Education. He was first married to Rebecca Frederking in 1971 while attending St. John's. Jesika Megan was born to them in 1974 in Florida. He taught 6th grade in Shawnee Mission, KS at Bluejacket, Pawnee, and Christa McAuliffe schools for 18 years. After becoming a single man, he joined the US Peace Corps in 1993 and served for 2 years in the Republic of Kiribati. It was an experience of a lifetime he always said. He'd served both the US's war effort and was happy to share in its peace efforts. Enjoying the adventure and opportunities of living and working in new cultures, he continued his teaching in South Korea. He completed his M.S. in Education at the University of Kansas and returned to Korea for a brief period of time. Max then traveled and worked overseas at the College of Micronesia-FSM on Pohnpei and for a year at a university in Jeon-ju, S. Korea and traveled in Thailand, China, Italy, and Canada. He then returned to Korea for a year, where he felt at home and then later worked for the US Peace Corps back in Kiribati as a TEFL training coordinator. He joined the faculty at the College of the Marshall Islands in the fall of 2005 and became the Chair of the Education Department where he was able to use his elementary teaching skills to help develop a teacher-training program. During this time, his first grandson was born in 2008. In 2011, he resigned from CMI and moved to Krabi, Thailand to retire, living in a house that his friends Will and Jun Evanson of Canada had built. There he lived until shortly before his death and where he had a good and supportive community and friends around him. There will be no memorial service, however, his daughter invites all of his friends around the world to raise a toast or have an adventure in his memory. If you play any music, he requested it be Joan Baez's version of 'Forever Young' noting that this song is "not to me or about me, but to my daughter and grandson Liam." 'Death is just another adventure; you don't need a ticket - you just get on board.' *Vietnam Counteroffensive, Phase VI (Army, Navy USCG): From 1968-11-02 to 1969-02-22 *Tet 1969 Counteroffensive (Army, Navy, USAF, USCG): from 1969-02-23 to 1969-06-08 *Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969 (Army, Navy, USAF, USCG): from 1969-06-09 to 1969-10-01 *Vietnam Winter-Spring 1970 (Army, Navy, USAF, USCG): from 1969-11-01 to 1970-04-30 *Sanctuary Counteroffensive (Army, Navy, USAF, USCG): from 1970-05-01 to 1970-06-30