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Francis Skopp dies in Chicago, 1970

Also Francis Skopp obituary, 1970

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Locator map: Chicago highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at ChicagoLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
TypeEvent
Date1970-04-21
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Locator map: Chicago highlighted within the Beaver Island archipelago
Took place at ChicagoLocator plate © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); depths NOAA; names USGS GNIS. How the plates are drawn.
Event
Date
1970-04-21
Kind
Death
Where
Chicago
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
demographycommunity
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Francis Skopp died suddenly in Chicago on April 21, 1970. The April Beaver Beacon identified him as Beaver Island-born and summarized his surviving family.

Evidence and limits

This record preserves the newspaper’s notice and family summary; it does not add an independently verified funeral or burial location.

Sources

  1. Reports that Francis Skopp died suddenly in Chicago on April 21, 1970, was born on Beaver Island on March 8, 1909, and left a wife, three sons, two brothers, and a sister.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1970-04_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published obituary notice.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1970-04_Beaver-Beacon

Added 6 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Francis Skopp dies in Chicago, 1970”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-francis-skopp-death-1970/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, April 1970, “Obituaries: Francis Skopp.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-06. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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