- Date
- 2017-10-11
- Kind
- Death
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communityeducationlibraryhistorical-societyobituary
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
Helen M. (LaFreniere) Pike died on October 11, 2017, at age 101, according to a Beaver Island Forum obituary notice. Born on Beaver Island in 1916, she became a teacher, helped manage the King Strang Hotel, and later returned to the Island, where the notice credits her with volunteer service to the Historical Society and District Library and work supporting a monument to people lost on Lake Michigan. Her funeral was announced for Holy Cross Catholic Church on October 14.
Evidence limits
The forum preserves a detailed community obituary and related recollections. It does not independently verify every biographical detail or establish the monument project’s full history.
Sources
- The forum obituary notice reports Helen M. (LaFreniere) Pike’s death at age 101, Beaver Island birth and teaching career, management of the King Strang Hotel, later return to the Island, volunteer work with the Historical Society and District Library, and October 14 services at Holy Cross. The notice is preserved as a community obituary relay; civil and funeral-home records were not independently checked here.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 12 · t012400
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Helen LaFreniere Pike dies at 101, 2017”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-helen-pike-death-2017/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “Helen Pike,” October 11–14, 2017..
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