- Date
- 2020-10-08
- Kind
- Death and memorial
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathfamilybusinessphilanthropyhealthcarecommunity
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Clyde William “Bill” Johnson III, a long-time Beaver Island summer resident, died at his Ann Arbor home on October 8, 2020. The obituary preserved in the forum describes his military service, engineering and business career, philanthropy, service on the Beaver Island Rural Health Center board, and close family connection to the island. A November 1 memorial stream and a 2021 Beaver Island memorial were planned.
Evidence limits
The forum preserves a contemporaneous community notice and detailed obituary reproduction. It establishes the reported death and planned memorials, but not attendance or completion of either memorial.
Sources
- The notice identifies Bill Johnson as a long-time summer resident on East Side Drive; the later obituary reports that he died October 8, 2020, in Ann Arbor. It describes his engineering and business career, military service, family, philanthropy, Beaver Island Rural Health Center board service, and plans for a small November 1 memorial stream and a 2021 Beaver Island memorial. The forum does not document either memorial’s completion.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 15 · t015744
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Clyde William “Bill” Johnson dies, 2020”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-clyde-william-johnson-death-2020/, accessed [date], citing Community notice and obituary reproduction, “Clyde William Johnson RIP,” Beaver Island Forum, October 10–20, 2020..
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