Philip S. Boone was born in Seagrove, NC in 1927 as the youngest of 10 children. He was captain of his Seagrove High School basketball team as well as the Wingate College basketball team. He was master of the 2-hand set shot. He met and married Julia Rippy in 1948 and celebrated 65 years of marriage before her death in 2013. For over 45 years, Phil owned and operated Boone Hearing Aid Center in Ridgewood Shopping Center. He cared greatly about his customers and kept working until he was 85. He served as President of the Raleigh Exchange Club and was an active member of Forest Hill Baptist Church.
He is survived by two sons and their spouses, Mark and Joanne Boone, and David and Corky Boone; ten grandchildren, Dorothy and Franklin Lanier, Anna Boone, Curt Boone and Stephanie Schilling, William and Jennifer Boone, Lindsey and Bart Perry, Lauren Brennan, Geoffrey Boone and Cody Mitchell, Johnathon Boone, Julianne and Stephen Ellis, Jameson and Haley Boone; and fifteen great grandchildren. His final words were “Goodnight darlin’”
There will be a Memorial Service in his honor in the Mausoleum Chapel at Raleigh Memorial Park, 7501 Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh on July 8th at 2:00 PM.
Condolences to the family at www.MitchellatRMP.com.
