- Dates
- 2002-11-19 – 2002-11-24
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathcommunitymilitaryheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Alfred H. Gates, an Ann Arbor resident and Beaver Island summer resident for about thirty years, died on November 19, 2002. The Beacon noted his World War II service with the Army’s 101st Airborne Division, his career as an auto-service-station owner, and the November 24 visitation and memorial service in Plymouth.
Evidence limits
The obituary is a newspaper account and does not provide a complete genealogy or independent service record.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, December 2002, “Goodbye, Alfred Gates.”Reports Gates’s death at Superior Woods Nursing Home on November 19, 2002, a November 24 visitation and memorial service in Plymouth, his Army service with the 101st Airborne Division, and his family’s Beaver Island cottage history. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2002-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the December 2002 report.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2002-12_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island summer resident Alfred H. Gates dies on November 19, 2002”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/alfred-gates-death-november-19-2002/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 2002, “Goodbye, Alfred Gates.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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