- Date
- 1977-09-18
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathheritagecommunicationcommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The September 1977 Beaver Beacon reports William McCafferty’s September 18 death in Toledo and recalls his sailing career and later hospital work.
Evidence and limits
This is a newspaper obituary notice. It does not provide a funeral report, civil record, or complete biography.
Sources
- Reports William McCafferty’s September 18 death in Toledo, gives his birth date as April 9, 1904, and describes his sailing and later hospital work. It does not provide a funeral report, civil record, or complete biography. 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 · 1977-09_Beaver-Beacon
- The held ten-page issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the obituary notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1977-09_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “William McCafferty’s death is reported, 1977”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-william-mccafferty-obituary-1977/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 1977, “Obituaries.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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