- Dates
- 2003-08-07 – 2003-08-14
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathfamilymilitarycommunitycatholicism
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Tom Dorais, an 82-year-old longtime Beaver Island summer resident, died August 7, 2003, after a brief illness. Memorial services were held in Wisconsin on August 11 and at Holy Cross Catholic Church on Beaver Island August 14.
Evidence limits
The obituary records family and community recollections but is not a complete vital or military record.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, September 2003, “Tom Dorais 1921–2003”.Reports Dorais’s August 7 death, Marine Corps service at Okinawa, long Beaver Island summer residency, community service, August 11 Wisconsin memorial, and August 14 Holy Cross memorial. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2003-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the September 2003 report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2003-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Longtime Beaver Island summer resident Tom Dorais dies and is remembered at Holy Cross”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-tom-dorais-death-and-memorial-2003/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2003, “Tom Dorais 1921–2003”. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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