Thomas H. Bussell thanks Beaver Island evacuation service, 1974

Event

Date: circa 1974-08
Kind: Medical
Participants: Thomas H. Bussell (assisted_person)
Carried out by: The Beaver
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: communicationhealthcarecommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Thomas H. Bussell thanked the Beaver Island Evacuation Service after a flight to Harbor Springs while visiting his mother-in-law on the island. He credited the flight and island care with averting major surgery and enclosed a token of appreciation.

Evidence and limits

This is a retrospective patient letter, not a medical record, flight log, donation receipt, or proof that the letter’s flight was one of the two August flights reported elsewhere in the issue.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, August 1974, “Thank You.”
Prints Thomas H. Bussell’s letter after returning home, thanking the Beaver Island Evacuation Service for a flight to Harbor Springs while visiting his mother-in-law’s island home. He says the flight helped avert major surgery for a cardiac-valve/esophageal obstruction problem and encloses a contribution; the letter supplies no flight date, medical chart, amount, aircraft identity, or recipient accounting.
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Beaver Beacon, August 1974, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held ten-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, “Thomas H. Bussell thanks Beaver Island evacuation service, 1974”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/thank-you-for-beaver-island-emergency-flight-1974/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1974, “Thank You.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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