Jane Petrak and Lyle Merriam marry at the new Christian Church, 1988

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Event

Date: 1988-05-14
Kind: Marriage
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: marriagereligionfamilycommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

Jane Petrak and Lyle Merriam married on May 14, 1988, in the new Beaver Island Nondenominational Christian Church. The June Beaver Beacon calls it the first wedding in the new building of someone who had grown up in the church and reports a reception for about 250 guests at Holy Cross Social Hall.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper wedding account; parish and civil records remain separate evidence for the legal and sacramental record.

Sources

“May Is the Month for Weddings on Beaver Island,” Beaver Beacon, June 1988.
Reports Jane Petrak and Lyle Merriam’s May 14 wedding in the new Beaver Island Nondenominational Christian Church, a reception for 250 guests at Holy Cross Social Hall, and wedding participants and helpers. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, June 1988, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held twenty-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source.
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Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Jane Petrak and Lyle Merriam marry at the new Christian Church, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-jane-petrak-lyle-merriam-wedding-1988/, accessed [date], citing “May Is the Month for Weddings on Beaver Island,” Beaver Beacon, June 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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