- Date
- 2009-11-07
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathfamilycommunityhealthcare
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Eleanor (Pischner) Mooney died at her Beaver Island home on November 7, 2009. The memorial describes her Island family, return to Beaver Island, work in the family electrical business, and surviving relatives. The family forum updates document the preceding illness, death at home, community support, and gratitude to the Beaver Island Medical Center. A later family notice scheduled a June 11, 2010 memorial service at Holy Cross Church, followed by a luncheon.
Evidence limits
This is a family memorial and forum follow-up with limited personal detail. It does not substitute for civil, cemetery, or church records.
Sources
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Sources
- Family and community members posted prayers while Eleanor was seriously ill, before the later death announcement. This preserves the community's contemporaneous account of her decline, not a medical record or prognosis.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 02 · t002007
- Marie LaFreniere and family members, “Eleanor Mooney RIP,” Beaver Island Forum, November 7–13, 2009.The family announced Eleanor's death, described her peaceful passing at home, thanked the Beaver Island Medical Center, and later supplied a fuller biographical notice. These are family statements and community responses; the Beacon memorial remains the stronger published source for the historical summary.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 02 · t002014
- A family notice scheduled a June 11 memorial service at Holy Cross Church followed by a Holy Cross Hall luncheon; a June 12 follow-up thanked volunteers and cooks. This first-person family notice documents the planned service and a follow-up consistent with its occurrence, but is not a church or civil register.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 02 · t002416
- Beaver Beacon, December 2009, "In Memory: Eleanor Mooney."Reports Eleanor Mooney's November 7 death at home, her Pischner family line, return to Beaver Island, six children, electrical-business work, and planned spring funeral mass. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2009-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the memorial notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2009-12_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island remembers Eleanor Mooney after her death at home, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-eleanor-mooney-death-2009/, accessed [date], citing Sheri Timsak and family members, “Prayers for Eleanor,” Beaver Island Forum, November 4–6, 2009. (and 4 further sources listed on the page).
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