- Date
- 2015-07-27
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathfamilymilitary-historycommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The forum reproduced a funeral-home-style notice reporting the July 27, 2015, death of George Alfred “Al” Ricksgers, a Beaver Island-born World War II Army veteran. The notice also records his family connection and a memorial donation request benefiting the Holy Cross Cemetery Fund.
Evidence limits
This record is based on a forum reproduction rather than a directly held funeral-home or vital record. The death date and biographical details should be verified against the linked funeral-home or cemetery source before being treated as fully established.
Sources
- The forum post reproduces a funeral-home-style notice reporting that George Alfred “Al” Ricksgers, born on Beaver Island in 1925, died July 27 at age 90; it gives family, World War II service, funeral, burial, and memorial-donation details. The forum copy is treated as a secondary reproduction and should be checked against the linked funeral-home or cemetery record before publication of detailed biographical claims.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 09 · t009158
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Forum reproduces notice of George Alfred Ricksgers’s death, 2015”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-george-alfred-ricksgers-death-2015/, accessed [date], citing Cindy Ricksgers, “George Alfred Ricksgers, RIP,” Beaver Island Forum, July 30–August 2, 2015..
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