- Date
- 2006-06-13
- Kind
- Death
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- deathreligioncommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Former Beaver Island priest Herbert Graf died on June 13, 2006, at Saint Francis Home in Tiffin, Ohio. The brief notice records his 1959 ordination and family survivors.
Evidence limits
The newspaper notice does not identify Graf’s dates of Island service or funeral arrangements.
Sources
See the sources block above.
Sources
- A contemporaneous community notice reported Graf's June 13 death and preserved memories of his service and volunteer work on Beaver Island; a follow-up reproduced biographical details from an external obituary. The July Beaver Beacon remains the stronger held source for the death and basic biography.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 00 · t000619
- Beaver Beacon, July 2006, "Father Herbert Graf."Reports former Island priest Herbert Graf's June 13 death at Saint Francis Home in Tiffin, Ohio, and gives his 1959 ordination and surviving siblings. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2006-07_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the death notice.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2006-07_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Former Beaver Island priest Herbert Graf dies, 2006”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-father-herbert-graf-death-2006/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum topic 619, "Rev. Herbert Graf-RIP," June 14–19, 2006. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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