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- fl. 1961
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Summary
Pat LaFreniere, described as a Chicago-based Sears employee, visited Beaver Island children in a Santa Claus suit during the 1961 holiday season.
Evidence and limits
The community notice supplies no full civil identity or employment record. No other Beacon or Charlevoix-corpus item naming a Chicago-based “Pat LaFreniere” was found by a broad surname search of the held corpus for this article; the corpus otherwise documents several unrelated Beaver Island LaFreniere households (see Archie Lafreniere and Patrick W. LaFreniere), none of which is stated to include this Pat. This remains a single-notice record.
Open questions
- Is this Pat LaFreniere related to the island’s LaFreniere families, or an unrelated Chicago namesake? No source read here says.
Sources
- Names Pat LaFreniere as a Chicago resident and Sears store employee who visited every island youngster in a Santa Claus suit during the holidays. It supplies no full civil identity or employment record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1962-01_Beaver-Beacon
- 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 · 1962-01_Beaver-Beacon
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Pat LaFreniere”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/people/pat-lafreniere/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, January 1962, “Here Comes Santa Claus.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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