- Date
- 1959-04-18
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- familycommunityheritagecommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The May 1959 Beaver Beacon reports Bid Ricksgers’s death in a Petoskey hospital and burial on Beaver Island on April 18.
Evidence limits
The notice is not a civil death certificate, funeral account, cemetery register, or complete biography.
Sources
- Reports that Bid Ricksgers, an old-timer known to island residents, died in the hospital in Petoskey and was buried April 18. It does not provide a civil death certificate, funeral account, cemetery register, or complete biography. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1959-05_Beaver-Beacon
- The held four-page issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the death and burial notice; it does not expand the civil or cemetery record.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1959-05_Beaver-Beacon
Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Bid Ricksgers dies in Petoskey and is buried on Beaver Island, 1959”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-bid-ricksgers-death-and-burial-1959/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, May 1959, “R.I.P.” (and 1 further source 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.
BibTeX for “Bid Ricksgers dies in Petoskey and is buried on Beaver Island, 1959”RIS for “Bid Ricksgers dies in Petoskey and is buried on Beaver Island, 1959”