- Date
- 1997-09-07
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathfamilycommunityheritagecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
William E. “Bill” Oddy died in California on September 7, 1997, aged 61. The October obituary records his engineering and business career, family, marriage to Jan Johnson Oddy, and the family’s summers on Beaver Island and planned Greenes’ Bay property. It also announced a Beaver Island remembrance service for the following summer.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper obituary and remembrance notice, not a civil death record, property record, or confirmation that the later service occurred.
Sources
- Reports that Bill Oddy died in California of Merkel-cell cancer on September 7, 1997. It identifies him as a Lake Forest native, Blackhawk resident, Degenkold Engineers executive vice president, University of Colorado graduate and University of Chicago MBA graduate, and son-in-law of Thelma Johnson and the late Professor Clyde Johnson of Sand Bay. The notice says the family spent summers on Beaver Island, planned a Greenes’ Bay home, and would hold a remembrance service the following summer. 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 · 1997-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the William Oddy obituary.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1997-10_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “William E. Oddy dies in California after summers on Beaver Island in 1997”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-william-oddy-obituary-1997/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 1997, “William E. Oddy, Feb 2, 1936 -- Sept. 7, 1997.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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