- Date
- 1980-05
- Kind
- Celebration
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- marriagefamilycelebrationcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The May 1980 Beaver Beacon congratulated Jewell and Rita Gillespie on their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary and printed their family’s thanks to friends and relatives who attended the celebration.
Evidence and limits
This is a short newspaper community notice, not a civil marriage record or complete account of the anniversary celebration.
Sources
- Reports the Gillespie family’s thanks to friends and relatives who attended the celebration of Jewell and Rita Gillespie’s thirty-fifth wedding anniversary. It is a newspaper community notice, not a civil marriage record or complete celebration account. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1980-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held ten-page May issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the anniversary notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1980-05_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Jewell and Rita Gillespie celebrate 35 years of marriage, 1980”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-jewell-rita-gillespie-35th-anniversary-1980/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 1980, “Jewell and Rita Gillespie anniversary.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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