Beaver Island ArchiveA primary-source archive & encyclopedia45°40′N 85°33′W · Lake Michigan
Colour scheme
Search

Event

Friends remember watercolor artist Jodie Dewey on Sand Bay, 2008

Also Jodie Dewey memorial service 2008

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
Date2008-08-08
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
2008-08-08
Kind
Death
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
deathartscommunitycommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Friends and family held a Sand Bay memorial for Jodie Dewey on August 8, 2008. The notice remembers her as a watercolor artist and long-time Beaver Island lover who first visited for a CMU Biological Station watercolor class and planned to retire on land near Font Lake.

Evidence limits

The short newspaper remembrance does not give a death date or broader biographical record; the indexed date is the reported memorial date.

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, September 2008, "Jodie Dewey."
    Reports that friends and family celebrated Jodie Dewey’s life at a Sand Bay memorial service on August 8; it describes her as a watercolor artist who first came to the Island for a CMU Bio Station class and later bought north-Font-Lake land. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan confirms the memorial notice.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2008-09_Beaver-Beacon

Added 5 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Friends remember watercolor artist Jodie Dewey on Sand Bay, 2008”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-jodie-dewey-memorial-2008/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2008, "Jodie Dewey." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-05. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

BibTeX for “Friends remember watercolor artist Jodie Dewey on Sand Bay, 2008”RIS for “Friends remember watercolor artist Jodie Dewey on Sand Bay, 2008”