Name: Nancy Waubininkee is returned to Beaver Island for burial, 1961
Start: 1961-04-07
End: 1961-04-07
Location: Holy Cross Cemetery

Event

Date: 1961-04-07
Kind: Burial
Where: Holy Cross Cemetery
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: demographycommunityhealthcarereligioncatholicism
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The May 1961 issue reports Nancy Waubininkee’s return to Beaver Island for burial at Holy Cross Cemetery on April 7. It identifies her as born on High Island and as Paul Kenwabikisse’s mother.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper obituary and burial notice, not a civil death record, medical file, or cemetery register.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, May 1961, “Obituaries.”
Reports that Nancy Waubininkee’s body was returned to Beaver Island on April 7 for burial at Holy Cross Cemetery, after her death at Grandview Medical in East Jordan following an extended illness. It says she was born on High Island and was Paul Kenwabikisse’s mother; it supplies no civil, medical, or cemetery register.
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Beaver Beacon, May 1961, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held seven-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Nancy Waubininkee is returned to Beaver Island for burial, 1961”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/burial-of-nancy-waubininkee-1961/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 1961, “Obituaries.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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