Former Libby resident pens book on ESP

Former Libby resident Eunice (Goyen) Boeve has recently published her memoir titled 'This Thin Veil Between Us.'

She shares how throughout her life her extra sensory perception

has caused her both grief and joy. Her first remembered premonition at

the age of 5 that her father was leaving them and circumstances at the time of his death four months later, led her to believe that evil people had come in the night while they slept and killed him.

Her mother’s emotional breakdown soon after caused her to believe those evil ones would now come for her mother. That fear, so frightening for the child she was then, slipped into her subconscious mind and along with some other frightening events led her to suffer panic attacks and fainting spells, until at age 48 an out-of-body experience set her free.

Boeve spent her early years south of Libby on the banks of Libby Creek, her high school years in Bonners Ferry and then met and married her husband, Ron, who was stationed at the Air Force base in the Yaak in the 1950s and 1960s, their years in Kansas in the furniture and funeral business and in retirement, their summer place on Bull Lake’s Angel Island.

They had been married 61 years when Ron passed in January of 2018.

Boeve has authored nine award-winning historical fiction books, seven for the middle grade and two for adults. Her last was published in 2017.

She believed that would be her last as her husband had been in failing health for several years. At any rate, she could never have imaged writing this tell all memoir about her life as she was always very reticent, even with her husband, about sharing the fact that she sometimes has premonitions, hears voices, seen passed loved ones and other experiences.

However when her husband passed into Heaven, her life for him became an open book and he began the process of getting her to write her life’s story. She calls him her ghostwriter.

Within hours after his death, he began to let her and their family know that only his body died, that he still lived and in many varied, wonderful and amazing ways he let them know he was very much cognizant of their continued journey through life and even though the book is now published, he has continued to make himself known.

Boeve shares it all in her book along with the many stories she gathered over the years from others who have had like experiences. She says, “Most, Like I was, are hesitant to share their stories, but often a story shared is a story received.”

Those stories, hers and others about contacts with passed loved ones, God, Jesus and angels lends credence to what she and many others believe is but a thin veil between us still earthbound and those in the afterlife. She hopes her book will open up more of those with such experiences to tell their story or stories and so spread the word that there is just, as her book title states, 'This thin Veil Between Us.'

The author has three sisters, Mabel Beebe of rural Libby and Margaret Neu of Copeland, Idaho, now in a nursing home in Sandpoint, and June Garetson who is in a nursing home in Logan, Kansas.

Their brother Larry Goyen lives in Torrington, Wyoming. Two brothers are deceased, Earl and Dan Goyen who were both lifelong Libby residents.

Boeve’s father, Harry Goyen, packed horses for the Forest Service out of Libby until his death in 1943. Years ago she gave a photo of him watering his horses in Pipe Creek to Libby’s historical society and was recently surprised to see that picture in the video history of Libby on the internet.

To see the video of her dad, go to the history of Libby and scroll down to the videos and click on the first one. It shows a church. The photo of my dad and his horses is at the very beginning of the video.

Boeve's new book is available in various bookstores and on Amazon.