- Date
- 1960-10
- Kind
- Announcement
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communitydemography
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The October 1960 Beaver Beacon announced the engagement of Florence Grandmaison to Vernon Fitzpatrick, whom it described as the local fire warden. Wedding plans were not complete.
Evidence and limits
This records an engagement announcement, not a completed marriage. It does not provide a wedding date, venue, civil record, or later outcome, and it does not resolve whether the named fire warden is identical with other Vernon Fitzpatrick records in the corpus.
Open questions
- Did the announced marriage occur, and which civil or family records document it?
See also
Sources
- Reports Florence Grandmaison's engagement to Vernon Fitzpatrick, described as the local fire warden, and says wedding plans were not complete. It does not provide a date, venue, officiant, civil record, or later outcome.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1960-10_Beaver-Beacon
- The held three-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 · 1960-10_Beaver-Beacon
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Florence Grandmaison and Vernon Fitzpatrick announce an engagement, 1960”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/florence-grandmaison-vernon-fitzpatrick-engagement-1960/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 1960, engagement notice. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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