Name: Catherine “Georgie” Gatliff dies with enduring Beaver Island family ties, 2009
Start: 2009-01-21
End: 2009-01-21
Location: Beaver Island

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Event

Date: 2009-01-21
Kind: Death
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: deathfamilycommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Catherine “Georgie” Gatliff, born Catherine Connaghan on Beaver Island in 1923, died on January 21, 2009. The obituary emphasizes her family and her continued return to the Island.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper obituary and family notice, not a civil, medical, or cemetery record.

Sources

See the sources block above.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, February 2009, "Catherine Gatliff 1923-2009."
Publishes the death notice, Beaver Island birth and family background, and continuing Island connection. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2009-02_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, February 2009, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the obituary.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2009-02_Beaver-Beacon
Marie LaFreniere, "Gatliff Funeral Arrangements," Beaver Island Forum, May 7, 2009.
The family-associated notice announced that Georgie Gatliff and her husband Danny would be brought to Beaver Island, with May 22 visitation and Rosary, a May 23 Holy Cross Mass, burial at Holy Cross Cemetery, and a luncheon. The forum documents the later reinterment arrangements; it does not replace cemetery or church records.
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Linda and the Gatliff family, "Thank you from the Gatliff Family," Beaver Island Forum, May 31, 2009.
The family follow-up thanked Islanders for the May 23 burial and related hospitality, music, luncheon, and AMVETS tribute. It documents community participation after the service, not a church or cemetery register.
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Beaver Island Forum, "Georgie Gatliff RIP" and "Georgie Gatliff's Eulogy," January 21–30, 2009.
The family/community thread reported Catherine “Georgie” Gatliff's January 21 death, reproduced a funeral notice identifying her Beaver Island birth and planned spring burial at Holy Cross Cemetery, and linked a January 26 eulogy describing her Island family and community ties. The reproduced notice and eulogy are not substitutes for civil, church, cemetery, or original newspaper records.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 01 · t001428

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Beaver Island Archive, “Catherine “Georgie” Gatliff dies with enduring Beaver Island family ties, 2009”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-catherine-gatliff-death-2009/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 2009, "Catherine Gatliff 1923-2009." (and 4 further sources listed on the page).

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