- Date
- 2015-10-15
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathcommunityheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Family members announced that Bruce Struik died in Traverse City on October 15, 2015, after a lengthy illness. Beaver Island respondents remembered him as a longtime familiar and kind presence; the family later linked a formal MLive obituary.
Evidence limits
The forum family announcement and linked obituary are stronger than ordinary third-party comments, but the obituary itself is not held here. The death date is carried as probable pending direct verification of the funeral-home record.
Sources
- Family members announced that Bruce Struik died October 15 in Traverse City after a lengthy illness and later linked an MLive funeral notice. The forum announcement establishes the family’s reported death date; the obituary link is catalogued but not independently held or checked here.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 09 · t009564
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Bruce Struik dies after a lengthy illness, 2015”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-bruce-struik-death-2015/, accessed [date], citing Marika BeVier and Libby Struik, “Bruce Struik RIP,” Beaver Island Forum, October 27–November 2, 2015..
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