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Death, funeral, and burial of Ronald S. O’Donnell, 1970

Also Ronald O’Donnell obituary · Ronnie O’Donnell funeral

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Locator map: Detroit highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at DetroitLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeEvent
Dates1970-11-17 – 1970-11-21
WithinDetroit · Beaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Locator map: Detroit highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at DetroitLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Dates
1970-11-17 – 1970-11-21
Kind
Death
Where
Detroit · Holy Cross Catholic Church building · Holy Cross Cemetery
Participants
Ronald S. O’Donnell (deceased)
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
communitydemographyreligion
Within
Detroit · Beaver Island

Summary

Ronald S. O’Donnell died at New Grace Hospital in Detroit on November 17, 1970, after a cerebral hemorrhage. The Beaver Beacon reports a November 21 funeral at Holy Cross Church on Beaver Island and burial in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Evidence and limits

This is a newspaper obituary and funeral notice, not an independent civil, medical, funeral-home, or cemetery record. The event spans the reported death, funeral, and burial; it does not imply that the death occurred on Beaver Island.

See also

Sources

  1. Visually checked page 4 and remote OCR. Reports death at New Grace Hospital in Detroit on November 17 after a cerebral hemorrhage, a November 21 funeral at Holy Cross Church officiated by Rev. Herbert Graf, and burial in Holy Cross Cemetery. It does not supply a civil death certificate, hospital record, funeral-home file, or cemetery register. 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 · 1970-11_Beaver-Beacon
  2. Held scan used to verify the obituary and funeral notice. The held nine-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and does not expand source-specific claims
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1970-11_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Death, funeral, and burial of Ronald S. O’Donnell, 1970”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/death-and-funeral-of-ronald-s-odonnell-1970/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, November 1970, “Island Native Passes.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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