Former resident publishes memoir

Former Bonners Ferry resident Eunice (Goyen) Boeve has recently published her memoir titled "This Thin Veil Between Us".

She begins her life’s story at age 5, when she had a premonition that her father was leaving them. He passed away four months later, and that night she sensed the presence of others but could not see them and believed they waited outside in the snow, and while they were sleeping, they came in and killed him. Her mother ’s complete emotional breakdown shortly afterward led her to believe the killers would now come for her mother. Those fears and other events, so frightening for the child, slipped into her subconscious mind and led her to have panic attacks and fainting spells until, at age 48, an out-of-body experience set her free. 

Boeve was born near Libby, Mont., but at age 14, she, her mother, and three younger siblings moved to Bonners Ferry. She graduated with the class of 1955 and worked those high school years at the Rex Theatre. She married Ron Boeve, who was stationed at the Air Force base then at Yaak, Mont., and in 1957 they moved to his hometown of Phillipsburg, Kans., where they raised four children and were in the furniture and funeral business and where the author still resides.

Over the years, Boeve authored nine award-winning books of historical fiction, some short stories, and magazine articles. She believed she had published her last book in 2017  as her husband of 61 years was terminally ill. He passed away in January 2018 and, within a few hours, began to let her and their family know through a variety of amazing and wonderful messages and signs that there is but a thin veil between us earthbound and those in the afterlife. Eventually, his many contacts led her to realize he was preparing her to write this book and aiding her along the way. She calls him her ghostwriter. 

Besides her own stories, Boeve also shares stories from others who have had experiences with passed loved ones, God, Jesus, and angels. She believes those and her own stories lend credence to what she and many others believe is positive proof that Heaven is real and our loved ones live on, despite the lack of scientific evidence, and will be there to greet us when we too pass through that thin veil between us. 

"This Thin Veil Between Us" is available in bookstores and on Amazon. 

Boeve has three sisters, Mabel Beebe of Libby and Margaret Neu, who lived north of Bonners Ferry near the old town of Copeland and is now a resident of a nursing home at Sandpoint, and June Garetson in the nursing home in Logan, Kans. Their brother, Larry Goyen, lives in Torrington, Wyo.  Their brothers, Earl and Dan Goyen, who lived at Libby, are deceased.