Name: The Beaver Beacon reports four Beaver Island-connected deaths, 1962
Start: 1962-06
End: 1962-07-02
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Dates: 1962-06 – 1962-07-02
Kind: Death
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: demographycommunityheritage
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The July 1962 Beaver Beacon reported four deaths with Beaver Island connections: William L. Behrisch, Raul Rousseau, Edna Wabaninkee Peaine, and Dale Thomas.

Evidence and limits

These are brief newspaper death notices. They preserve the issue’s reported family, former-resident, visitor, and property connections without substituting for complete obituaries or civil records.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, July 1962, “Obituaries.”
Reports deaths of William L. Behrisch of Bay City, Raul Rousseau of Detroit, Edna Wabaninkee Peaine of Chicago, and Dale Thomas of Sandusky, preserving their Beaver Island family, former-resident, visitor, or property connections. It does not provide complete obituaries or civil records.
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Beaver Beacon, July 1962, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held five-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published death notices; it does not expand the identity or relationship claims.
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Beaver Island Archive, “The Beaver Beacon reports four Beaver Island-connected deaths, 1962”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-death-notices-july-1962/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, July 1962, “Obituaries.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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