The legendary singer and actor Pat Boone is speaking out this week to open up about the loss of his wife of 65 years, Shirley Boone, who passed away in 2019 at the age of 84.
Boone, 86, still lives in the same home in Beverly Hills, California that he bought with Shirley back in 1960.
“I’m living here alone with a housekeeper and my dog, a little cocker spaniel,” Boone told Closer Weekly.
“I’m doing fine,” he added. “I mean, gosh, I miss her.”
Boone and Shirley fell in love when they were teenagers and married in 1953. They would go on to have four daughters, as well as several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In his latest interview, Boone credited their shared faith as one of the secrets behind their long-lasting union.
“We made our commitment in marriage to God and to each other,” Boone said. “We make our own decisions, but we are helped supernaturally. I’m willing to be led in doing the right things.”
He added that before Shirley died, he wrote a song for her called “You and I.”
“It expresses the thought that eventually we will be together in heaven,” he said. “My greatest accomplishment is our marriage of 65 years in Hollywood, being an entertainer and my four kids. We’re living a good life.”
Boone’s manager confirmed Shirley’s death to Fox News last year, saying that she died at her Beverly Hills home with daughters Cherry, Lindy, Debby and Laury singing to her as she passed.
“Shirley was more accomplished than is generally known,” he said. “Best selling author, recording artist, TV hostess, humanitarian and the origin of Mercy Corps, a top ten hunger-relief organization worldwide, a half-billion-dollar annual budget, which started in the Boone home. Millions know her for her Christian ministry.”
Back in 2018, Boone said that he was so madly in love with Shirley that he was always mindful when it came to doing love scenes with other actresses.
“My first film ‘Bernadine,’ there were no love scenes in that film,” Boone told Fox News at the time. “Now I go right in for ‘April Love’ and there are no love scenes in that script either… Our characters fall in love, but there was no kissing in the script. So I never talked to my wife about what happens if I’m asked to do some kissing in these movies I’m starting to make.”
This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.
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