Ronald Pere

Full Name: Ronald Pere
Date of Death: Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Ronald Pere, age 92, of Boca Raton, Florida, passed away peacefully on August 19, after a lengthy illness. He was the devoted husband to Bernice and a loving father to his children Joy, Glenn, David and Kerri. Ron was pre-deceased by his first wife, Barbara in 1993. While Barbara was the first love of his life, Bernice more than filled the role as love of his life and best friend through all their years together. They were inseparable and did almost everything together, cruises in the Caribbean, huge family backyard barbeques, weekly cards and dinners with family and friends, occasional trips to the casino, local trips even if only going to the mall or beauty parlor, meals at the Chickee Bar, sitting on their deck watching the sunset, watching tv where they most recently enjoyed watching all the major golf tournaments and many other things too numerous to list. Sharing wonderful times they had together with family and friends that will always be cherished memories.
Ron was born on May 11, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York. Due to family circumstances, he spent his early years and young adulthood at The Pride of Judea Children's Home. While he had a love of sports, especially basketball, it was there that he developed his skills as a talented artist. Upon graduation he was awarded a scholarship to the School of Industrial Arts.
Ron served in the Army and was honorably discharged in 1961. Following the completion of his studies and military service, Ron started his own advertising agency, Ronald Pere Advertising. He ultimately merged his agency into another agency where he was co-CEO, Lead Creative Director and Chief Marketing Officer. Specializing in the electronics industry, the agency served as agency of record for many years to a variety of well-known companies including Brother, Hitachi and Sankyo amongst others. Beyond his work life, Ron was a man of many interests. This included involvement coaching youth sports with his children's teams, designing and doing much of the interior woodwork in the family home on the bay in Merrick, NY. Living on the water, he developed a love of boating and the family spent many weekends cruising the bay with friends. He was a founding member of Temple Israel of South Merrick. In his later years he used his skills to build many elaborate Lego creations and model pirate ships and schooners. These projects often took weeks or months to complete and required a special kind of patience and nerves of steel which Ron had plenty of. In keeping with Ron's nature, no detail was ever left out and the results were always spectacular! Ron is survived by his children Joy (David) Nearpass, Glenn (Marci), David (Julie) and Kerri (Noah) D'Alessio, 10 grandchildren, Jared (Lauren) Nearpass, Zachary (Alison) Nearpass, Brett (Drew), Adam, Brady (Natalie), Kevin, Benjamin, Spencer, Emma D'Alessio and Marley D'Alessio and 5 great-grandchildren Stevie, Crosby, Quinn, and Cooper Nearpass and Sophie Pere.
He is also survived by his wife of 28 years, Bernice, and her children Scott (Michelle) Hyde and Jodi (Eric) Tetuan and Bernice's grandchildren Rebecca, Matthew and Sophia. He always considered Bernice's family as his own.
Donations in Ron's name may be made to the ALS Foundation or charity of your own choosing.