Joe's father came to America as a stow-away at the age of 12 from Czechoslovakia. His name was actually Dolezal but when his mother remarried after her first husband was killed in the coal mines, her second Husband name was Kaularich. The names became merged into Dolerich. After the Second World War, Joe decided to take a name which was less confusing. He chose one close to that of a man he admired, Dolland (Pronounced Do-land)