Name: The August 1962 Beacon reports three additional Beaver Island-connected deaths, 1962
Start: 1962-07
End: 1962-07
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 1962-07
Kind: Death
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: demographycommunityheritage
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The August 1962 Beaver Beacon reported the deaths of Henry Aherns, a former Beaver Island resident; Hubert McCauley, another former resident; and Frank McCort, whose family owned a Beaver Island cabin.

Evidence and limits

These are brief newspaper death notices. They preserve the issue’s reported connections without substituting for complete obituaries or civil records.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, August 1962, “Obituaries” and “Word Has Just Been Received.”
Reports Henry Aherns’s death at Grandvue, Hubert McCauley’s death at Pentwater, and Frank McCort’s death in Ireland; it preserves their former Island or family connections without complete obituaries or civil records.
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Beaver Beacon, August 1962, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held five-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published death notices; it does not expand the identity or relationship claims.
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Added 8 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “The August 1962 Beacon reports three additional Beaver Island-connected deaths, 1962”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-death-notices-august-1962/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 1962, “Obituaries” and “Word Has Just Been Received.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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