Daniel Joseph "Dan" Boeckman

CARTERVILLE - Daniel "Dan" Joseph Boeckman, 63, passed away on Wednesday, June 18, 2025.

Dan was the fifth and final addition to the Boeckman family when he was born on March 25, 1962, to C.B. "Beck" Boeckman and Martha "Nan" Hilburn Boeckman. As a teenager, Dan joined his parents as they relocated from Kansas City to the Lake of the Ozarks to run Empire Resort in their retirement. Although Dan's career would take him across the Midwest, his love of the Lake remained a constant throughout his life. The Big Niangua arm holds many wonderful memories of Dan for his friends and family.

Dan graduated from Camdenton High School in 1980. He went on to earn a degree in construction management from Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas. Dan's career in construction took him from working the night shift supervising the construction of a Kansas City high-rise to overseeing state-of-the-art expansions for hospital systems in Missouri and Illinois. For the last 15 years, he was with SIH Memorial Hospital in Carbondale, Illinois, where he served as the corporate director of facilities.

In 1988, he met his future wife, Gail, in Springfield, Missouri, and asked her if she'd like to dance. They were joined in marriage on Sept. 1, 2001, at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Camdenton, Missouri. A great joy of their shared life was adopting their son Deegan from China in 2002.

Dan's hobbies were united under one theme: allowing him to spend time with friends and family. He was always happy to entertain guests at the Lake. Dan owned and loved many boats throughout his life. Perhaps none more than his 36-foot wooden Chris-Craft, christened "GiGi," that features prominently in his nieces' and nephews' childhood memories of their beloved Uncle Danny. In many of those memories, he's fiddling with a temperamental engine.

He is remembered by his loved ones as perhaps the luckiest golfer on the planet. He famously scored a hole-in-one during a tournament shortly before traveling to adopt Deegan, and then won a Mustang at another tournament shortly thereafter (though it was deemed impractical for life with a toddler).

Dan is remembered for his kind and generous heart. Over the years, he was involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters, hosted an international exchange student from China, and was an active member and past president of both the Missouri and Southern Illinois Healthcare Engineering Society chapters.

Dan was preceded in death by his parents, Beck and Nan, and his beloved sister, Debra Boeckman.

He is survived by his devoted wife, Gail; son, Deegan; stepson, Sean Calhoun; his siblings and their spouses, Linda (Jim) Griffeth of Galveston, Texas, David (Linda) Boeckman of Camdenton, Missouri, and Mark (Kathy) Boeckman of Santa Clara, California; as well as many adoring nieces, nephews and in-laws.

Family and friends are encouraged to remember Dan when they're spending time by the water and when the Cardinals win. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Cancer Society (www.cancer.org).

Services will be Aug. 2 in Camdenton, beginning with a visitation at 10 a.m. at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, 1874 N. Business Rt. 5, Camdenton, Missouri. Funeral mass will begin at 11 a.m., with inurnment at Hedges Cemetery Columbarium. A luncheon will follow. Friends and family are welcome for all.