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Helen Cole McClean

Also Helen Cole McClean · Helen McClean

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TypePerson
Died1961-09-01
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Person
Died
1961-09-01 · Beaver Island
Work
Operator, King Strang Hotel · Owner, property later known as Gillespie's Garage
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
communityheritagedemography
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Helen Cole McClean (died September 27, 1961) is identified in October 1961 as a former Beaver Island resident who operated the King Strang Hotel and owned the property later known as Gillespie’s Garage. A 2011 retrospective also places her childhood at Nomad and calls her a hotel operator.

Evidence and limits

The contemporaneous notice directly supplies her death date and reports a Tawas City burial. The later retrospective corroborates the hotel identity but not a birth date. This remains an episode-qualified obituary and property-history notice, not a deed, civil record, or complete business history.

Sources

  1. Identifies Helen Cole McClean as a former Beaver Island resident who operated the King Strang Hotel and owned the property later known as Gillespie’s Garage; reports her unexpected death on September 27, 1961 and Tawas City burial. It supplies no deed, civil record, or complete hotel history.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1961-10_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held five-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 · 1961-10_Beaver-Beacon
  3. The retrospective describes Helen Cole as having grown up at Nomad and operated the King Strang Hotel. It corroborates the local identity but supplies no birth record, marriage record, or additional death-record detail.

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Helen Cole McClean”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/people/helen-cole-mcclean/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 1961, “Obituaries.” (and 2 further sources listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-03. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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