Boe, Larry Neil 1939-2022

BOE, IVERSEN, CARR, DUBINSKY, DIRKS

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/15/2022 at 17:03:43

Note: His mother's maiden name was Iversen.

Larry Neil Boe was born on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939 to Holger (“Pete”) and Pearl Boe in Akron, Iowa; he died unexpectedly on February 23, 2022 in Roswell, Georgia.

Memorial Service will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Akron, Iowa. Reverend Eric Alm will officiate. Private family interment will be in Riverside Cemetery in Akron. Visitation with the family present will be from 9:30 a.m. until service time on Wednesday at the church and following the service during a time of lunch and fellowship at the Akron Golf Course. Local arrangements are with the Rexwinkel Funeral Home in Akron.

Memorials may be given to the choir at Immanuel Lutheran in Akron, or the Akron Care Center’s new addition that is being built. Larry was a quiet man with a good sense of humor. He was kind to everyone he met; he will be missed.

Larry always liked to joke how he was born at home, on the wrong side of the tracks; he would probably have some smart comment about dying in Georgia in a hospital and not at home. Larry lived all of his formative years in Akron, except for the few elementary years when his family lived in International Falls, MN. Larry was baptized and confirmed into the Lutheran Faith at Immanuel. Larry walked his future wife, Deanna Dirks, home from the movie theater (on a dare) when he was in the 9th grade and she was in the 7th. They dated off and on, became engaged in the fall of 1962 only to go their separate ways shortly thereafter.

Larry was a track star, winning at state contests on several occasions. He earned a track and football scholarship to Augustana College in Sioux Falls where he attended it for one year. Larry next served in the Iowa National Guard, and was proud of his service. It was during this timeframe he attended the University of South Dakota, lacking only one semester to graduate. Larry married Judy Carr of Hawarden, November 1963 and from that marriage they had four children, although the first one died in infancy. Larry worked for the A. C. Nielsen Marketing Research Company, located in Chicago, for 28 years. It was during this period of his life he worked not only in Chicago, but also New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta. He obtained the position of Vice President and worked for them until 1994. Larry and Judy divorced in 1992.

It was during that timeframe that Larry and Deanna (Dirks/Dubinsky) reunited and were married in Atlanta in 1994. Once he no longer worked for Nielsen he accompanied Deanna overseas where she was employed by the Department of Defense Dependent Schools. They lived in Japan, Germany, and finally Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. When Deanna retired from teaching they built their retirement home in Akron with a view of the golf course, his favorite activity. He enjoyed being on the Golf Course Board and serving on the Economic and Development Committee. They lived in Akron until they moved to Roswell, GA, a suburb of Atlanta, which allowed them to be closer to family. Their hearts remained in Akron and so they returned to spend their summers there.

Larry is preceded in death by his parents, Pete and Pearl; his oldest brother Dennis and his wife, Joan Cole; his sister Carol and her husband Stewart (Skip) Harris; his infant son, David; and his former wife, Judy.

He leaves behind a younger brother, Gary and his wife, Nancy (of Omaha); younger sister, Kris and her husband, Dale Simmons (of Norfolk) his oldest son, Kenneth (Campbell, CA), daughter Kris and her husband, Bob Bergeron and their two children Robert and Katie of Alta Loma, CA; and his youngest son, Peter and his two children, Riley and Ryker of Campbell, CA. He also leaves four step-daughters:: Sasha and her husband Brad Makel, son Alan of Woodstock, GA; Nadiya and Brandon Buerk of Toledo, OH and their five children: Katie, Emily, Lauren, Adam, James; Danae and Jason Werthman of Milton, GA and their three children: Cole, Zach, and Maelyn; Joanna Dubinsky of New Orleans; his 102 year old uncle Vern Hanson of Sioux Falls; plus many nieces and nephews.

Rexwinkel Funeral Home
Akron, Iowa