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The April 1963 Beacon reports three Island-linked weddings

Also Betty Hammond Kenneth McDonough wedding 1963 · Lila Coraghan Max Selfridge wedding 1963 · Judith Dorgal Kenneth Souter wedding 1963

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TypeEvent
Dates1963-03-09 – 1963-04-05
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Dates
1963-03-09 – 1963-04-05
Kind
Marriage
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
marriagefamilycommunity
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The April 1963 Beaver Beacon reports three marriages: Betty Rose Hammond and Kenneth L. McDonough on March 9, Judith Dorgal and Kenneth Souter on March 23, and Lila Lee Coraghan and Max Selfridge on April 5.

Evidence and limits

These are newspaper wedding notices, not civil or church certificates.

Sources

  1. Reports Betty Rose Hammond’s March 9 marriage to Kenneth L. McDonough, Lila Lee Coraghan’s April 5 marriage to Max Selfridge, and Judith Dorgal’s March 23 marriage to Kenneth Souter, with family and ceremony details.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1963-04_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published wedding notices; it does not provide civil or church certificates.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1963-04_Beaver-Beacon

Added 8 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “The April 1963 Beacon reports three Island-linked weddings”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-weddings-april-1963/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1963, “Weddings.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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