Name: David Wheeler Adams dies and is remembered on Beaver Island, 2016
Start: 2016-10-15
End: 2016-11-12
Location: Holy Cross Catholic Church building

Event

Dates: 2016-10-15 – 2016-11-12
Kind: Death
Where: Holy Cross Catholic Church building
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: deathcommunityfamilyemergency-servicesgovernance
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

David Wheeler Adams died on October 15, 2016. Beaver Island forum notices remembered his construction work, service with the Charlevoix County Road Commission, membership in the Beaver Island Fire Department, and years as chair of the St. James Zoning Board of Appeals. The notice gave visitation and funeral arrangements at Holy Cross Church for November 11–12.

Evidence limits

The archive preserves a community notice and reproduced obituary information, but not the linked funeral-home record or an independently verified death certificate.

Sources

Gillespie, “Dave Adams-RIP,” and Marie LaFreniere, “Dave Adams Obituary,” Beaver Island Forum, October 15–November 6, 2016.
The threads reported Adams’s October 15 death, preserved community memories, and reproduced funeral arrangements and an obituary-style biography identifying his Beaver Island construction, road-commission, fire-department, and zoning-board connections. The reproduced notice is treated as a community relay; the linked funeral-home obituary is not held locally.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 10 · t010961
Gillespie, “Dave Adams-RIP,” and Marie LaFreniere, “Dave Adams Obituary,” Beaver Island Forum, October 15–November 6, 2016.
The threads reported Adams’s October 15 death, preserved community memories, and reproduced funeral arrangements and an obituary-style biography identifying his Beaver Island construction, road-commission, fire-department, and zoning-board connections. The reproduced notice is treated as a community relay; the linked funeral-home obituary is not held locally.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 10 · t010983
Joanie (Adams) Kolinski, “Thank You,” Beaver Island Forum, November 15, 2016.
Adams’s family thanked the community for practical and emotional support after his death. This is a family-authored acknowledgment of community response, not an additional biographical or funeral source.
forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 11 · t011062

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Beaver Island Archive, “David Wheeler Adams dies and is remembered on Beaver Island, 2016”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-david-adams-death-2016/, accessed [date], citing Gillespie, “Dave Adams-RIP,” and Marie LaFreniere, “Dave Adams Obituary,” Beaver Island Forum, October 15–November 6, 2016. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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