Ronald D. Boeve was born September 7, 1932 on a farm near Prairie view, Kansas to Louis and Edith (Bogart) Boeve. He passed from this life on January 25, 2018 at the Phillips County Hospital in Phillipsburg, Kansas at age of 85.
The family moved to Phillipsburg in 1935. Ron was six when his mother spent a year in the Norton Sanatorium with tuberculosis. That year, he and his sister, Shirley, lived with their grandparents, Henry and Dora (Reusink) Boeve on a farm near Prairie View and he attended the Rock Island country school with several of his cousins. In his growing up years, Ron worked many jobs, among them, a waiter at the Horseshoe café, his dad and a partner owned at the time, and later at his dad's filling station. He also did the janitor work at the post office (and was excused from school a few hours a day to do so) and still he found time to play school sports, was president of his graduating class of 1950, and a member of the National Honor Society. After graduation he worked for Quanz Floral and the Sandford Hatchery.
Ron joined the Air Force in 1953. He was stationed in California, Mississippi, Montana, and Canada. While stationed at the Yaak Air Force Base in Montana, he met and married Eunice Goyen of Bonners Ferry, Idaho on Oct 2, 1955. That same month he was transferred to Beaverlodge, Alberta Canada. Following his discharge from the Air Force on January 27, 1957, he worked at a lumber mill in Bonners Ferry while Eunice (Eunie) cared for her widowed mother who was terminally ill. Following her mother's death in July of that year, the couple, and Eunie's fourteen year old sister, June, moved to Phillipsburg. Ron took the first job he could find, painting tanks at the Refinery. He then worked in the Accounting Department at Kansas Nebraska Gas Company. In March of 1959, he and his brother-in-law, Darel Olliff, bought out the J.M. McKinley furniture store on the north side of the square. In 1960, Ron bought into the Olliff Funeral Home and the name was changed to Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel. Ron and Darel also provided ambulance service to the community until the county took it over in 1974. Ron and Darel sold the furniture store in 1983 and retired from the funeral home in 1997.
Ron was a member of the First Christian Church at Phillipsburg, going forward at age twelve, at a revival meeting. He served the church as elder, deacon, board chairman, and also served on various other committees over the years. He was active in the community, elected councilman from 1969 to1973 and was mayor from 1973 to 1975. Ron was a member of the Rotary club for over 50 years, served on various committees, and as club president. He was elected Governor of Rotary District 5670 from 1979-1980 and lead a Group Study Exchange Team to India in 1974. He was a Paul Harris Fellow and made all his grandchildren Paul Harris Fellows as well.
Ron was a loving husband and father. He knew the value of spending time with family and to that end, insisted on yearly vacations and in later years delighted in their summer place on an island out of Troy Montana, especially when the children and grandchildren came to visit.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Louis & Edith, brothers, Larry and Gary Boeve, and brother-in-law, Darel Olliff.
Ron is survived by his wife, Eunice, and leaves behind four children: Katherine Boeve and her husband, Tom Pensabene, and Kandice Boeve, of Omaha; Kelly Leiker and her husband Mike, of Hays; Ron Boeve, Jr. and his wife, Michele, of Phillipsburg; five grandchildren: Jordyn Tweedy and husband, Brandyn, Allyson Boeve, and John Boeve all of Phillipsburg, and Emily of Lawrence,and Elizabeth Leiker of Hays; Step-grandchildren; Elyse Powell of Los Angles, California and Klyie and her husband, Kevin Ubert of Hays, step- great grandchildren: Jaidon and Logan Allen of Ness City and Kynlie Ubert of Hays. He is also survived by his sister, Shirley Olliff of Phillipsburg, sisters-in-law Joyce Boeve of Phillipsburg, Saunie Boeve of Afton, Oklahoma, Mabel Beebe of Libby, Montana, Margaret New of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, June Garetson of Logan, a brother-in-law, Larry Goyen of Torrington, Wyoming, several cousins, nieces and nephews and many friends.
Ron has gone on to swap stories with his two brothers, Larry and Gary, and to see again the mother he adored and the father whom he loved as well, and many other family members and friends.

Funeral services will be held Monday, Jan 29, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. in the Huck Boyd Community Center in Phillipsburg, KS with Pastors Joel Hiesterman and LeRoy Herder officiating. Burial will follow in the Fairview Cemetery, Phillipsburg, with military honors by U.S. Air Force.

Visitation will be Saturday, Jan. 27, from 5 – 9 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 28, from noon – 9 p.m. at the funeral home where the family will receive friends from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Sunday evening.

Memorial contributions may be given to the First Christian Church or Phillipsburg Rotary.