- Date
- 1971-03-11
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- St. Joseph, Michigan
- Participants
- Mary Elizabeth Gallagher (victim)
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- catholicismcommunityheritagemigration
Summary
Mary Elizabeth (Duffy) Gallagher died on March 11, 1971, at a nursing home in St. Joseph, Michigan. The March Beaver Beacon reports a March 13 Requiem Mass at St. Joseph’s Church and says her body would be returned to Beaver Island for spring burial in Holy Cross Cemetery.
Evidence and limits
The obituary supplies the death date, birth date, migration to Beaver Island, marriage, and immediate family details. It does not supply a burial plot or establish a complete identity for her named children, niece, or husband beyond the source’s wording. A later April–May report is recorded separately as the newspaper-attested burial event.
Open questions
- What cemetery plot or church/cemetery register records document the April 24 burial?
- Which civil, church, or immigration records document her Aranmore birth and 1904 arrival?
- Can the named husband, children, and niece be resolved without merging other Gallagher families?
See also
Sources
- Reports Gallagher’s March 11 death at a nursing home in St. Joseph, March 13 Requiem Mass, and the plan to return her body to Beaver Island for spring burial in Holy Cross Cemetery; it is an obituary and intended-burial report, not a civil or completed burial record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1971-03_Beaver-Beacon
- The held six-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.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1971-03_Beaver-Beacon
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Death of Mary Elizabeth Gallagher, 1971”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/death-of-mary-elizabeth-gallagher-1971/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1971, “Obituaries: Mary Elizabeth Gallagher.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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