Name: The Beacon publishes December 1958 sympathy notices for island-connected families, 1958
Start: 1958-11
End: 1958-12
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Dates: 1958-11 – 1958-12
Kind: Death
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communitydemography
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The December 1958 Beaver Beacon offers sympathy after Julia Skopp, sister of Dan “Turner” Boyle, died in Chicago at age 82, and after the death in Mason, Michigan, of “Doc” Collins’s father at age 90.

Evidence limits

These are newspaper sympathy notices, not death certificates, obituaries, funeral records, cemetery records, or complete family histories.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, December 1958, “OUR SYMPATHY.”
Offers sympathy to the relatives of Julia Skopp, 82, who died in Chicago, identifying her as the sister of Dan “Turner” Boyle, and lists her husband Frank, five children, 13 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. It also offers sympathy to “Doc” Collins after his father, age 90, died in Mason, Michigan, during the week of November 9. It does not provide death certificates, obituaries, funeral records, or complete family identities. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, December 1958, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held five-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the sympathy notices; it does not expand the civil, family, or cemetery record.
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Beaver Island Archive, “The Beacon publishes December 1958 sympathy notices for island-connected families, 1958”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-december-1958-sympathy-notices/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1958, “OUR SYMPATHY.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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