- Date
- circa 1980-12-25
- Kind
- Death
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- familyheritagecommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The February 1981 Beaver Beacon remembered Kathryn Egan as the last of her generation born and raised at Piper’s Corner on Beaver Island. It describes her birth in 1901, the Gallagher family boarding house, later life in Detroit, Chicago, and California, and her December funeral and interment.
Evidence and limits
This is a newspaper obituary and family-history notice. The source does not provide an independent death certificate or establish the present condition of the former boarding-house property.
Sources
- Reports Kathryn Egan’s death on Christmas night, her birth on Beaver Island in 1901, the Gallagher family’s Piper’s Corner boarding house, her later residences, services, and surviving nieces and nephew. The source gives no exact death year beyond the issue context and no independent property record. 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 · 1981-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held thirteen-page February issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the obituary notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1981-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Kathryn Egan obituary and Piper family history, 1980”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-kathryn-egan-obituary-1980/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1981, “Obituaries.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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