- Date
- 2024-11-17
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathartscommunitycommercehealthcare
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Karen Whitecraft-Stith, a Beaver Island artist and community worker, died at her Beaver Island home on November 17, 2024, at age 68. The funeral-home obituary records her long island residence, massage and hair work, jewelry design, and love of animals.
Evidence limits
The forum supplied the initial death notice, while the funeral-home obituary is the stronger source for the date, place, age, and biography. No service was planned according to the obituary; this record does not infer a memorial or burial from the forum post.
Sources
- The forum’s initial notice says Karen had died and that more information would follow. It does not give a date, location, age, or biography, so it is treated as a contemporaneous community lead rather than the basis for those facts.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 18 · t018344
- The funeral-home obituary reports Whitecraft-Stith’s November 17 death at age 68 at her Beaver Island home, her move to the island in the 1990s, and her work as a licensed masseuse, hair cutter, and jewelry designer. It says no services were planned.
- Legacy.com, “Karen Whitecraft-Stith,” obituary mirror of Mortensen Funeral Homes, November 17, 2024.The public mirror preserves the same funeral-home account and is used as a secondary access copy, not as an independent biography.
Added 9 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Karen Whitecraft-Stith, Beaver Island artist and community worker, dies in 2024”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-karen-whitecraft-stith-death-2024/, accessed [date], citing Marie LaFreniere, “Karen Whitecraft RIP,” Beaver Island Forum, December 5, 2024. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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