Name: Beaver Island holds a large funeral and military tribute for Ernie Martin, August 11, 2005
Start: 2005-08-11
End: 2005-08-11
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2005-08-11
Kind: Burial
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: deathheritagemilitaryreligioncommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Ernie Martin’s August 11, 2005 funeral and burial drew an overflow crowd at Holy Cross. The ceremony included eulogies, an AmVets three-round salute, an Island Airways flyover, Odawa drumming, and a procession with Clydesdales and a piper.

Evidence limits

This is a detailed community account, not a civil death certificate or complete funeral program.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Beaver Island Forum, “Ernie Martin, Sr.-Hurt,” July 18–August 14, 2005.
A contemporaneous community thread reports Martin's July 18 scaffold fall, Coast Guard helicopter evacuation, and family-mediated updates through August 14. It documents the community information flow and reported medical course, but not a hospital record or the final clinical outcome; the Beaver Beacon remains stronger for the funeral date and ceremony.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000392
Beaver Island Forum, “Francis Ernest Martin - RIP,” August 16–29, 2005.
Community and family posts announce Martin’s death, describe his island life and Vietnam service, organize funeral-expense donations, and recall the funeral procession and ceremony. These are firsthand/community recollections; the Beaver Beacon remains the stronger source for the dated funeral program and reported ceremonial details.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000413
Beaver Beacon, September 2005, "Ernie Martin 1947–2005."
Reports the August 11 funeral and burial, the overflow crowd, eulogies, AmVets marksmen's salute, Island Airways flyover, Odawa drumming, and a procession led by Clydesdales and a piper. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2005-09_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, September 2005, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the funeral report.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2005-09_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island holds a large funeral and military tribute for Ernie Martin, August 11, 2005”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ernie-martin-funeral-august-11-2005/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Ernie Martin, Sr.-Hurt,” July 18–August 14, 2005. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

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