- Dates
- circa 1968-02 – circa 1968-03
- Kind
- Death
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathheritagecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The March 1968 Beaver Beacon reported that Catherine “Mel” Gallagher, a former long-time Beaver Island resident, died in Chicago on February 25 and was buried in All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines. It also reported Anna L. Hill’s February 19 death and February 22 burial in Skokie, noting her family’s long seasonal connection to Cables Bay, and reported the death of six-month-old Jane Marie O’Donnell of Chicago.
Evidence and limits
This is a grouped newspaper obituary record. The notice for Jane Marie O’Donnell contains a date wording that is not fully clear in the OCR, so this record does not infer a death date from it. The entries are not civil death records or complete genealogies.
Sources
- Reports the deaths of Catherine “Mel” Gallagher and Anna L. Hill and the death notice for Jane Marie O'Donnell; it includes former residence, seasonal, family, or burial connections but does not provide civil death records or complete genealogies.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1968-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held nine-page issue scan is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the published obituary notices.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1968-03_Beaver-Beacon
Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island-connected obituaries reported in March 1968”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-march-1968-obituaries/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1968, “Obituaries.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
Last revised 2026-08-06. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.
BibTeX for “Beaver Island-connected obituaries reported in March 1968”RIS for “Beaver Island-connected obituaries reported in March 1968”