- Dates
- 2009-12-12 – 2009-12-19
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathcommunitytransportationlocal governmentheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Jim Willis died at his home on Beaver Island on December 12, 2009. The forum reported a December 19 memorial service at the Beaver Island Christian Church with a luncheon afterward, alongside a Charlevoix funeral-home service. The reproduced obituary presents Willis as a long-serving Island community member and worker, including township supervisor, school custodian, Historical Society president, tour guide, transit driver, softball coach, and umpire.
Evidence limits
The held source is a community thread containing family-associated notices and a reproduced obituary. It supports the reported death, arrangements, and biographical claims provisionally, but does not replace civil, funeral-home, church, or organizational records.
Sources
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Sources
- Community and family-associated posts reported his December 12 death at home, funeral arrangements in Charlevoix, and a December 19 memorial at the Beaver Island Christian Church followed by a luncheon. A reproduced obituary identifies his Beaver Island work and service, including township supervision, school custodianship, Historical Society presidency, tour guiding, transit driving, and softball umpiring. The thread is a community/family notice and reproduced obituary, not an independently held civil or funeral-home record.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 02 · t002046
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Jim Willis dies and is remembered in Beaver Island memorial services, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-jim-willis-death-2009/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, "Jim Willis - RIP," November 23–December 15, 2009..
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