- Dates
- 1969-08-09 – 1969-09-15
- Kind
- Death
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- demographycommunityreligion
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The combined August–September 1969 issue reports the deaths of Reverend Robert C. Boyle on August 9, Leroy Sendenburgh on August 27, and Thelma Marquass on September 11. It records a memorial Mass for Boyle, burial on Beaver Island for Sendenburgh, and Marquass’s burial in Bay City.
Evidence and limits
These are newspaper obituary notices. They do not provide independent death certificates, complete biographies, or a complete burial record.
Sources
- Reports Thelma Marquass’s September 11 death in Bay City and September 15 burial, Reverend Robert C. Boyle’s August 9 death and memorial Mass, and Leroy Sendenburgh’s August 27 death in Benton Harbor followed by burial on Beaver Island; it does not provide civil or parish records.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1969-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held eleven-page combined August–September issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published obituary notices.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1969-08_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island-connected obituary notices, August–September 1969”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-august-september-1969-obituaries/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1969, “Obituaries.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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